Regular monitoring and control of project progress will be addressed in this course. Costing, base lining and the progress update cycle will be covered in detail. You will leave this course with the confidence to use a project schedule for communication and reporting, enabling informed decision making.
What will I learn...?
• Working with the work formula and effort-driven scheduling.
• Costing the project.
• Using the project schedule in communication.
• Base lining the project schedule.
• Monitoring project progress in a consistently.
• Establishing base, project, task and resource calendars.
• Rescheduling incomplete tasks and assessing the impact on delivery dates.
• Interpreting the project progress, slippages, threats to deadlines and resource workloads.
• Formulating and selecting corrective actions to remain on track.
• Performing “what if” analysis.
• Maximizing the presentation of project information using views, tables, filters and groups.
What do others say about the course...?
“Great! Still could work out a lot better if management, subordinates and contractors get this training.”
“Costing and reporting was very informative.”
“Course gives you a very good understanding and makes you realise how powerful MSP really is.”
What accreditation will I get...?
This course is aligned to Unit standard 120387: “Monitor, evaluate and communicate simple project schedules”. NQF Level 4, Credits 4.
SETA prerequisite for this course…?
ID 120384: “Develop a simple schedule to facilitate effective project execution”, NQF Level 4, Matric or equivalent math’s and English.