PPP - Practical Project Planning Course Description

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Course Objectives: Learn how to create project plans and use them for tracking progress and costs.
Use: Applicable for use with any planning tool.
Training Approach: Interactive, step-by-step approach, with guidance throughout. Handouts for each session for future reference.
Delegates: Project Managers and Planners.
Prerequisites: Delegates have some understanding of the project life-cycle.
Duration: 1.5 days
Minimum delegates: 2
Maximum delegates: 10
Note: Sequence of modules may vary.
Module Content
Objectives of planning
  1. What will the plan be used for?
  2. How detailed should it be?
Collecting information for the plan
  1. Requiremement Specifications and Contracts
Creating a plan
  1. Understand the project life-cycle
  2. Identify deliverables/products
  3. Identify tasks (work breakdown structure)
  4. Allocate resources to tasks
  5. Estimate task work and durations
  6. Estimate Project Management effort required
  7. Include dependency links
  8. Include constraints
  9. Level the resources
  10. Analyse the Critical Path/Pert
  11. Insert Milestones
  12. Analyse Costs
  13. Base-line the Plan
Tracking and reporting progress
  1. Capture timesheet/progress information
  2. Track progress against baseline
  3. Track costs against budget
Reporting
  1. Producing management and client reports
Practical
  1. Create small plan & base-line

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