About the course
Project Planning & Control supports the publication of the APM's guide, ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk.’ It provides guidance and best practice for project planning and control and is applicable across all industries and sectors.
A successful Practitioner candidate will have demonstrated that they have achieved sufficient understanding of the theory and application of the tools and techniques to allow them to work successfully in a Project Support team environment.
Duration
This is a five day classroom course that includes the PPC Foundation and Practitioner exam on the last day.
Pre-requisites
The are no formal pre-requisites. It is recommended that a Practitioner candidate has a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a planning and monitoring role. In addition, you must have passed the PPC Foundation exam prior to undertaking the Practitioner examination.
Learning objectives
By attending this course, you will learn…
- The approaches and techniques used to plan and close a project
- The selection and use of appropriate scheduling techniques
- The practices used for rigorous monitoring to enable proactive control of the project
- The basis for good record keeping, which also facilitates the virtuous feedback and learning cycle
- The approaches and key products used to gain a clear definition of a project
- The scheduling techniques and appropriate presentation of the outputs
- The management of risk in the planning, execution and evaluation of a project
- The practices and data used for rigorous monitoring to enable proactive control of the project
This is an intensive five-day course that includes the following:
- All accompanying course material
- The Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk manual
- The cost of the PPC Foundation and Practitioner examination (taken within the duration of the course)
What's covered?
This course covers the following modules:
- Planning & Scheduling
- Breakdown Structures
- Dependency Management
- Handover and Closure
- Scheduling
- Types of Schedules
- Building the Schedule
- Critical Path Analysis
- Time Analysis
- Duration Estimates
- Resources
- Communicating the Schedule
- Project Baselines and Baselining Principles
- Performance Reporting
- Variance Analysis
- Resource Monitoring
- Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
- Cost Control
- Short-term Planning
- Change Control
- Forensic Analysis
- Record Keeping
- Earned Value Management
- Risk Management
Target audience
This course would benefit:
- Planning Managers & Engineers
- Project Control Managers & Engineers
- Cost Engineers
- Project Managers
There is mandatory pre-course work that must be under taken prior to attending this course. In addition, whilst attending the course there will also be some exam preparation evening work.