Develop your time management skills and discover time management strategies to ensure every project you manage runs smoothly. Every project manager or project leader has had a project that seems to spiral out of control - absorbing more time and resource than was planned. This course will help you stop that happening.
Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see FutureLearn's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.
You will learn time management strategies to help you prevent projects becoming unmanageable and develop the fundamental skills of a project manager to make sure every project you run meets its deadlines.
Now is the time to put an end to runaway projects.
What will you achieve?
- List the time management processes
- Identify components of the schedule management plan
- Define an activity
- Describe the transition from scope to schedule
- Explain the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
- Distinguish the difference between a mandatory and discretionary dependency
- Define lags and leads
- Calculate the critical path for a project using the critical path method, including forward and backward pass
- Calculate float for each activity
- Explain why schedule compression may be necessary
- Distinguish the difference between crashing and fast tracking and the project implications of each
- Describe the difference between a schedule and target completion date
- Identify the difference between the critical chain method and the critical path method
- Define project and feeding buffers
- Define resource leveling and resource smoothing
- Determine when these two techniques are necessary
- Explain the point when a schedule is base lined
- Explain project milestones
-- Create a Gantt chart with project data
- List the things that a Gantt chart can display
- List the benefits and challenges in using scheduling software
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
