An interactive course where you will learn advanced scheduling and time management tools and techniques needed to cultivate and evolve the effectiveness and efficiency of your project schedules and timelines.  Candidates for the PMI’s Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP^SM) certification will benefit from topics ranging from the fundamentals of the Schedule Development Process to more advanced topics drawn from the Schedule Model and Good Practices found in the PMI’s® internationally accepted Practice Standard for Scheduling (2007). 

This course is an important contribution to the knowledge base of project managers who are seasoned practitioners with a basic understanding of Critical Path Methodology and the PMBOK’s Project Time Management knowledge area. During the three-day interactive workshop sessions, the Schedule Development framework presented in the PMBOK will be applied to a real-world case study that will allow participants to exchange valuable lessons learned with other Project Management practitioners and mature their own techniques for:

• Defining the time required to successfully execute a project
• Recognizing scheduling opportunities and the early detection of scheduling threats
• Refining project schedules in dynamic, fast paced environments
• Acquiring the most appropriate resources in a cost efficient manner
• Communicating funding allocation requirements
• Coordinating activities within projects and amongst interdependent projects
• Strategically analyzing project schedules
• Improving overall project performance

It is recommended that students bring their copy of PMI’s Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) 3^rd Edition to class with them.

As part of the registration fee, Students will receive a copy of “The Practice Standard for Scheduling (2007)” issued by the Project Management Institute.