The PMI®-SP credential recognizes individuals who provide expertise in the specialized area of developing and maintaining the project schedule. This global credential acknowledges individuals who strengthen and support project management by offering knowledge specific to project scheduling. . This course prepares the participant for the PMI®-SP certification exam. It offers an in-depth look at project time management.
It covers the five primary exam’s domains:
• Schedule Mission Management
• Schedule Creation
• Schedule Maintenance
• Schedule Analysis
• Schedule Communication / Reports
Audience
Individuals that are interested in having a better understanding of Project Time Management or preparing for the PMI®-SP certification exam.
Perquisites Courses
• Managing Projects or IT Project Management
• Scheduling and Cost Control
Delivery Style
A combination of instructor led lectures, hands-on activities, and practice questions through the use of Interactive Response Technology. The course includes a pre-course and a post-course assessment.
Course Material
• Course binder which includes lecture slides and reference notes.
• Practice questions
• Tools, and templates
• Full length practice test
Course Topics
• Course Introduction
• Course Objectives
• Course Structure and Overview
• Utilizing Course Materials
1. Introduction to PMI®-SP credential
a. The Project Management Institute (PMI®)
b. PMI-SP® Credential Overview
c. Credential Overview
d. Credential Application
e. Individual Assessment
f. Exam Tips
2. Schedule Mission Management
a. Identify key issues in successful scheduling
b. Analyze your scheduling approach
c. Deliver a project
3. Schedule creation
a. Building the Project Network Diagram o Identifying the work
• Derive information from project scope and constraints
• Build a deliverable-oriented WBS that defines the scope of the project
• Translate a WBS into an activity list
• Identify dependencies
• Establish a sequence
• Apply network diagrams: PDM
• Review CPM and PERT
• Define precedence relationships
• Determine lead and lag times
b. Developing Robust Schedule Estimates
• Choose the right estimating methodology
• Understand the differences between estimating models
• Explain the difference between effort and duration
• Deal with uncertainty
• Estimate for activity duration
• Differentiate between duration and resources usage
• Factor in productivity to determine true duration
c. Integrating the Schedule and Critical Path
• Compute the Critical Path
• Conduct a forward and a backward pass through the network diagram to determine
o activity start and end times
• Derive float to identify areas of flexibility in the schedule
• Calculate the critical, near-critical, and noncritical path
• Create Gantt charts
• Establish the project duration and end date
• Represent relative durations of activities graphically using a Gantt chart
• Estimate resource requirements
• Build a resource breakdown structure
• Identify the project resource pool
d. Schedules that make sense
• Allocate resources effectively
• Address resource constraints
• Level resources
• Create a baseline schedule
4. Schedule Maintenance
a. Establish procedures for maintaining and updating the project schedule
b. Evaluate the schedule against the baseline
c. Define the frequency and format of activity status reports
d. Update and maintain the plan
e. Collect activity status from activity owners
f. Record actual duration
5. Schedule analysis
g. Perform schedule-based Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
h. Define the frequency and detail for measuring performance
i. Determine the variance between planned and actual values
j. Calculate schedule efficiency
k. Forecast the impact to the Critical Path and project duration
l. Identify alternative project delivery approaches
m. Distinguish between fast-tracking the project and crashing the critical path
Create parallel schedules in order to determine the feasibility of proposed changes
6. Schedule communication/ reports
a. Identify reporting needs
b. Interface project information with organizational reporting needs
c. Align project monitoring to project planning
d. Generate schedule reports
e. Establish standard project reports
f. Report project status using EVA, milestones and Critical Path
Appendix
• Exercises
• Full-Length PMI®-SP Practice Exam
• Process Groups and the Nine Knowledge Areas
• Templates for Time Management
• Individual Unit Reviews
