One of the primary responsibilities of a project manager is to manage a project’s budget and schedule. Success is often measured based on meeting deadlines and delivering the project within financial and schedule constraints.
The PM role today is much more complex, requiring a deeper understanding of stakeholders’ goals, needs, expectations, requirements, and risk tolerance. A project manager must have a holistic perspective and a nuanced understanding of project elements and their interaction with budgets and schedules.
This course will review roles and responsibilities, estimating, how to be a good steward of project resources and how to adapt project scheduling and budgeting efforts to uncertainty with concepts such as rolling-wave planning and agile delivery.
This course is also sometimes known as “Tracking and Forecasting Progress: Budgets, Baselines and Timelines” and “Managing Variances: Cost and Schedule Management Best Practices”.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will gain the practical skills to:
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and other subject matter experts such as schedulers, financial experts, and others
- Prepare a project budget and schedule
- Use fundamental scheduling techniques such as calculating critical path and float
- Use cost-benefit analysis, earned value and velocity for project decisions and to understand project health
- Appreciate the importance of a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of project objectives
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is designed for project managers, project coordinators and senior members of the project team who are responsible for the successful outcome of a project.
LOGISTICS
This course will be delivered over two instructor-led online session on November 21-22, 2024 from 8:30am to 12:00pm Eastern time.
