Tag: Allocating contingency budgets and schedules

Project Time and Cost Management About This Course Two common, major areas of project overrun are time and money. In this course, you gain solid schedule and budget-management skills. You learn how to define the work and calculate a realistic critical path. You establish a budget baseline by allocating resources to tasks, aggregating project budgets and quantifying risk. By setting up Earned Value Analysis, you will be able to report on project status and forecast future performance. You Will Learn How To: Create a realistic and robust project plan Estimate tasks and aggregate to the project level Calculate critical path to determine project duration Determine total project costs Quantify risk to produce a defensible baseline Leverage best practices to significantly improve project outcomes   Course Content Introduction Identifying key issues in successful scheduling Preparing realistic budgets Building a baseline you can live with Identifying the Work Creating manageable activities Deriving information from a statement of scope and project constraints Seven rules for determining manageability Building a deliverable-oriented Work Breakdown...