Project Schedule and Cost Control - PM410

Target Audience

Manager/Supervisor/Team Leads

Learning Objectives

Learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget.

Course Content

Through hands-on exercises, you'll learn:

• To develop a work breakdown schedule, grasp diagramming techniques, identify task relationships, determine the critical path, employ estimating techniques, and analyze resource utilization. Once the project schedule is complete, you'll create a budget that includes all direct and indirect costs associated with the project.

• The importance of base lining project schedules and budgets to make reporting and tracking progress easier.

• Understand how to use earned value analysis and other reporting techniques to ensure that your project progress is clearly identified and communicated to stakeholders.

• Create schedule and cost management plans, and control changes through an integrated change management process.

• To use a variety of tools that will ensure that your project is delivered on time and within budget.

Supplement Material

A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.

Benefits to the participants

Throughout the activities, the learners will be able to create, monitor and control a schedule and budget against their baselines and take corrective measures.

Course Evaluation

 A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.

Note: The course outline may be subject to change.