Project, Planning & Control Combined (Foundation & Practitioner)

The combined  PPC course will support you on your journey to understanding and applying effecting planning tools and techniques as well as discovering how best to assert control in projects.  

Projects naturally carry with them a level of uncertainty and this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to manage and remove uncertainty during project delivering according to APM best practice.  

You Will Learn How To:

• Understand the approaches and products used to gain a clear definition of a project.
• Use the approaches and techniques to plan and close a project.
• Understand the selection and use of appropriate scheduling techniques and appropriate presentation of the outputs.
• Understand the basis for good record-keeping, which also facilitates the virtuous feedback and learning cycle.
• Apply the management of risk in the planning, execution and evaluation of a project.
• Apply the practices used for rigorous monitoring to enable proactive control of the project.

Course Content:

• Business Case
• Scope Management
• Requirements Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Planning & Scheduling
• Dependency Management
• Handover and Closeout
• Types of Schedule
• Building the Schedule
• Critical Path Method
• Time Analysis
• Duration Estimates
• Resources
• Communicating the Schedule
• Schedule Narrative
• Schedule Review
• Project Baselines and Baselining Principles
• Performance Reporting
• Variance Analysis
• Resource Monitoring
• Earned Value Analysis
• Cost Control
• Short-term Planning
• Change Control
• Forensic Analysis
• Record Keeping
• Project Definition
• Critical Path Analysis Constraints
• Estimating & Resourcing
• Earned Value Management
• Managing Risk