Scoping and Scheduling Successful Projects

Accurately defining project scope sets the foundation for a successful project that accomplishes organizational needs. Research has shown that substandard requirements and scoping techniques often result in projects exceeding their planned budgets by as much as 200%. Additionally, generating a realistic schedule based on accurate resource and duration estimates troubles even the most the senior project managers. This course, based on PMI®’s PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition, provides participants with the tools and techniques to help them determine and deliver products, services, and results that meet requirements, expectations, and deadlines.
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This course is intended for:

· Project managers, project team leads, and project team members (with or without a currently-active PMI certification) who want to gain a deeper understanding of and hands-on experience with project scope and schedule tools, techniques, and outputs, as documented in the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition.

· Professionals who hold current PMP®, PgMP®, or other PMI credentials, who wish to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMI certification.

 

This course is not intended as direct preparation for any PMI certification exam.

To ensure that you benefit fully from this course, you should have experience managing, leading, or contributing to projects. A PMI project-management credential such as PMP® or CAPM® is recommended but not required.

Author 

Brian Salk, PhD, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, has over 30 years of experience, specializing in hands-on traditional and agile project management, training, and consulting. He manages a variety of consulting and training programs and projects for his organization and for a number of Fortune 500 customers. His global clientele includes organizations in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to authoring courses, Dr. Brian frequently delivers project-management certification training (e.g., PMP®) and project-management best practices training. He is a four-time winner of the prestigious Worldwide Excellence in Training award, recognizing the 25 highest-rated instructors from a network of over 2,400. Dr. Brian earned his PhD from Fielding Graduate University and his Masters of Arts (Education) from the University of Michigan.

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Lesson 1: Project Scope and Schedule Management Overview

Project Scope Management Overview

Project Scope Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs

New Practices and Theories

Project Schedule Management Overview

Project Schedule Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs

New Practices and Theories

Case Study Selection

Requirements, Scope, and Negotiations

Lesson 2: Planning Processes

Planning Processes Overview

Plan Scope Management

The Scope Management Plan

The Requirements Management Plan

Plan Schedule Management

The Schedule Management Plan

Collect Requirements

Types of Requirements

Effective Product/Solution Requirements

Other Stakeholders and Requirements

Collect Requirements Techniques

Voice of the Customer

Requirements Traceability Matrix

Define Scope

Project Scope Statement Sections

Create a Project Scope Statement

Create WBS

WBS by Deliverable

WBS by Phase

When to Subdivide a Work Package Further

Effective WBSs

General Process for Creating the WBS

Create a WBS

Define Activities

Practical Considerations for Defining Activities

Activities and Steps

Milestones

Create Activities and Milestones

Sequence Activities

Create a Network Diagram

Estimate Activity Resources

Resource Breakdown Structure

Estimate Activity Resources

Assign Resources to Activities

Estimate Activity Durations

Expert Judgment

Ratio Estimating

Analogous Estimating

Parametric Estimating

Forecasting

Three Point Estimating and PERT Estimating

Reserves

Estimate Activity Durations

Develop Schedule

Critical Path

Resource Optimization – Resource Leveling

Resource Optimization – Resource Smoothing

Resolve Overallocations

Critical Chain

Schedule Compression Techniques

 Lesson 3: Monitoring and Controlling Processes

Validate Scope

Verify Scope Best Practices

Create a Scope Validation Form

Control Scope

Control Scope Best Practices

Change Control Stakeholders

Determine Change Control Stakeholders

Scope Change Control Process

Change Request Form

Control Schedule

Control Schedule Best Practices

Scheduling Successful Projects

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