Planning Essentials (CPS 100)

Course Summary

On successful completion of this course, the delegate will understand work and product breakdown structures, critical path analysis, baselining, progress collection and re-forecasting.

The course will cover these essential topics, enabling the delegate to understand:

• What is a Project?
• Project Dynamics
• What is Project Management?
• Why Plan?
• Work Breakdown Structures, WBS
• Estimating Methods, PERT
• Risk, Quality
• Critical Path Analysis (CPA), Networks
• Schedule Planning, Tasks, Dependencies, Constraints, Resources
• Controlling and Monitoring Projects, Project Lifecycle, Exception, Tolerances, Issues, Change

Delegate Profile

Aimed at the Project Manager, Line Manager or Team Leader. Provides introduction to or a refresher on planning and project management fundamentals before Microsoft Project training.

What you will learn

At the end of the class the delegate will understand what project management is, understand the planning process, basic risk and quality concepts. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Do I need to bring anything?

Note taking materials will be provided