15 Topics
5 Days
75 Sessions
Programme Overview
Training Description
Who Should Attend
- Cost Engineers
- Construction and Infrastructure Professionals
- Engineers and Technical Professionals
- Quantity Surveyors
- Operations Managers and Officers
- Risk Management Professionals
- Project Consultants
- Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals
- Government and Public Sector Project Professionals
- NGO and Development Programme Professionals
- Professionals aspiring to specialise in project scheduling
- Professionals preparing for the PMI-SP certification examination
Session Objectives
- Gain mastery of advanced project scheduling concepts and tools
- Understand how to optimize resources and manage time effectively
- Develop skills to identify, analyze, and mitigate scheduling risks
- Learn to integrate scheduling practices with earned value management
- Enhance ability to use scheduling software and data analytics for decision-making
About the Course
The course focuses on professional scheduling practices across the project lifecycle, from schedule planning and activity definition to sequencing, duration estimation, resource optimisation, schedule analysis, monitoring, forecasting, and control.
Participants will learn how to develop realistic and integrated project schedules, identify critical activities, analyse schedule risks, manage dependencies, assess schedule performance, and implement corrective actions to keep projects on track. The programme also provides focused preparation for professionals pursuing the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification.
Curriculum & Topics
15 Topics | 75 Sessions
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Workshop 1.1:
Role of scheduling in project success
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Workshop 1.2:
Fundamentals of project scheduling lifecycle
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Workshop 1.3:
Importance of scheduling in risk and cost control
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Workshop 1.4:
Project constraints and time management principles
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Workshop 1.5:
Key roles and responsibilities of scheduling professionals
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Workshop 2.1:
PMI scheduling methodology
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Workshop 2.2:
Global standards in project scheduling (PMBOK, ISO)
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Workshop 2.3:
Industry-specific scheduling practices
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Workshop 2.4:
Importance of scheduling governance
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Workshop 2.5:
Benchmarking scheduling performance
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Workshop 3.1:
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development
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Workshop 3.2:
Activity definition and decomposition techniques
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Workshop 3.3:
Sequencing project activities
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Workshop 3.4:
Activity attributes and dependencies
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Workshop 3.5:
Tools for defining activities effectively
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Workshop 4.1:
Critical Path Method (CPM)
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Workshop 4.2:
Schedule network diagrams
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Workshop 4.3:
Leads, lags, and float concepts
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Workshop 4.4:
Optimizing project timelines
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Workshop 4.5:
Case studies on schedule development
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Workshop 5.1:
MS Project fundamentals
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Workshop 5.2:
Primavera P6 advanced features
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Workshop 5.3:
Agile scheduling tools
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Workshop 5.4:
Cloud-based scheduling platforms
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Workshop 5.5:
Emerging AI-powered scheduling tools
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Workshop 6.1:
Identifying resource requirements
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Workshop 6.2:
Resource leveling and smoothing techniques
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Workshop 6.3:
Resource allocation models
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Workshop 6.4:
Managing multi-project resource conflicts
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Workshop 6.5:
Tools for optimizing resource use
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Workshop 7.1:
Identifying scheduling risks
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Workshop 7.2:
Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis
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Workshop 7.3:
Monte Carlo simulation in scheduling
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Workshop 7.4:
Risk-adjusted schedules
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Workshop 7.5:
Integrating risk management with scheduling
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Workshop 8.1:
Developing scheduling baselines
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Workshop 8.2:
Importance of baseline performance measurement
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Workshop 8.3:
Handling schedule changes and updates
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Workshop 8.4:
Change control processes
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Workshop 8.5:
Maintaining schedule integrity
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Workshop 9.1:
Schedule performance measurement techniques
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Workshop 9.2:
Earned Value Management (EVM) in scheduling
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Workshop 9.3:
Tracking actuals versus planned progress
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Workshop 9.4:
Variance analysis techniques
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Workshop 9.5:
Reporting project schedule performance
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Workshop 10.1:
Communicating schedules to stakeholders
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Workshop 10.2:
Visualization techniques for schedules
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Workshop 10.3:
Dashboards and reporting tools
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Workshop 10.4:
Effective schedule presentations
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Workshop 10.5:
Stakeholder engagement strategies
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Workshop 11.1:
Fast-tracking and crashing techniques
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Workshop 11.2:
Time-cost trade-offs
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Workshop 11.3:
Rolling wave planning
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Workshop 11.4:
Agile scheduling frameworks
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Workshop 11.5:
Hybrid scheduling models
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Workshop 12.1:
Scheduling in contract management
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Workshop 12.2:
Claims analysis and delay management
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Workshop 12.3:
Legal implications of poor scheduling
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Workshop 12.4:
Forensic scheduling and dispute resolution
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Workshop 12.5:
Contractual obligations in scheduling practices
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Workshop 13.1:
Establishing schedule quality standards
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Workshop 13.2:
Common scheduling errors and how to avoid them
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Workshop 13.3:
Schedule validation and verification
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Workshop 13.4:
Auditing scheduling practices
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Workshop 13.5:
Continuous improvement in scheduling
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Workshop 14.1:
Scheduling in construction projects
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Workshop 14.2:
Scheduling in IT and software development
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Workshop 14.3:
Energy and utilities project scheduling
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Workshop 14.4:
Healthcare and infrastructure scheduling practices
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Workshop 14.5:
Real-world lessons from failed projects
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Workshop 15.1:
Overview of PMI-SP exam structure
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Workshop 15.2:
Key exam content domains
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Workshop 15.3:
Study tips and strategies
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Workshop 15.4:
Practice test discussions
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Workshop 15.5:
PMI-SP application and exam registration process
