Advanced Integrated Scheduling and Resource Capacity Planning

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