Time Management Strategies for Project Management (FutureLearn)

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