Utilization of project management scheduling tool and EPPM tool (if available); Interdependencies; reporting; resource management across projects and programs
Day 1
Review Of Project And Program Scheduling
- Translating deliverables into the project schedule
- Assigning dependencies and understanding Critical Path Method
- Assigning resources and work effort estimates
- Tips and techniques to ensure that MS Project is a productive decision support tool
- Exercise in building the framework for a project
- Program interface management
- Linking projects into a program schedule
- Identifying project impacts within the program schedule
- Exercises: Building an AutoTrader Program within scheduling tool
Day 2
Creating Reports
- Multiple project and resource management techniques
- Techniques for rapidly developing decision support views and reports
- Resource capacity planning views
- Critically late report
- Issues report
- Project slippage report
- Benefits tracking report
- Status reporting
- Techniques for receiving accurate status from the project managers
- Impact analysis
- Communicating impact analysis utilizing reports from scheduling tool and/or EPPM tool.
Measuring Benefits
- Conducting benefits analysis throughout the program lifecycle
- Transitioning benefits measurement