Project Management: Delivering the Triple Constraints

Course Overview

Balancing the triple constraint of scope, schedule and cost often becomes the key to success in our projects. This course prepares you to face these competing forces by applying the knowledge and tools needed to manage scope expectations within realistic project schedules and budgets. Learn to proactively identify and deal with schedule and cost variances to ensure successful project delivery. Gain the skills to effectively integrate quality processes into your project management practices. Use quality tools and build quality into project plans and the end product. Learn the specifics processes of scope, schedule, cost and quality management knowledge areas as defined by the Project Management Institute in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Fifth Edition), the industry standard.

 

Who Should Attend?

Project managers who must be able to complete projects on time and on budget without sacrificing project quality, professionals preparing to transition into a new career in project management, professionals without formal training who charged with managing large, complex projects or smaller, more tactical projects, seasoned project managers interested in refreshing their skills while earning PMI-approved PDUs, business analysts working with project managers and project teams in challenging environments, technical team leaders, managers.

 

Course Objectives:

• Address the challenges of balancing scope expectations with schedule and budget allocations.

• Apply tools and techniques for establishing more realistic cost and schedule estimates.

• Manage and control expectations of project scope objectives.

• Build, analyze and optimize a project schedule.

• Apply tools for effective time and cost management.

• Describe and apply tools and techniques for identifying, acquiring and managing project resources.

• Implement quality management processes in projects.

• Identify and implement quality standards.

• Plan for project quality and build quality into systems.

• Use quality tools for improving project results.

• Use earned value analysis, or EVA, to evaluate project status.

• Predict future project performance based on historical data.

• Identify the characteristics of troubled projects and strategies for corrective action.

• Bring successful conclusion to projects on time, in scope and within budget.

 

Contents:

• Introduction to scope, schedule and cost management

• Scope planning

• Quality planning

• Schedule planning: Estimating durations

• Building an effective schedule

• Cost estimating and budgeting

• Controlling scope, schedule and cost

• Quality control

• Quality assurance

• Troubled projects