This webinar is about scheduling and structuring a project schedule that works and ensures the accomplishment of the project's objectives.

Participants will be walked through the scheduling process from start to finish in language that will clearly describe those scheduling tasks that must be accomplished to build a solid project schedule, from creating the WBS to the actual execution of the project and monitoring and controlling project performance.

Scheduling compression and optimization techniques will be discussed and applied to the examples used to explain the scheduling process.

This webinar is one in a series of webinars detailing all of project management's critical aspects. This webinar will discuss project scheduling, why it is crucial to project success, and how it is executed.

Unfortunately, the role of project management lands in the laps of those least prepared to take on the task. These people work hard, are well-meaning, and, most importantly, competent. But nothing is worse than being handed the management of a project without the skills to execute it successfully. Most accidental project managers open an Excel spreadsheet that serves as the project schedule. Bad move!

Why should you attend?

Projects are one-time but very complex undertakings. Building a detailed and well-crafted schedule is crucial to completing projects on time and budget. Scheduling allows management to identify, optimize, and effectively apply the tradeoffs between the elements of the triple constraint – time, cost, and quality/scope. 

Project performance is reported against those elements or baselines iteratively across the project's life, allowing the project manager to exercise effective project control. That iterative process is ineffective without a good schedule, potentially affecting project performance. You have to plan and schedule if you want to avoid those awkward, embarrassing discussions with stakeholders and senior management as to why the project is not tracking to plan or, worse yet, is failing miserably.

This webinar is the first step in getting there.

What you'll learn?

• Creating the schedule plan for the project
• Defining who has authority over the schedule
• Identifying start and end dates for project activities and tasks
• Determining task dependencies
• Sequencing activities and tasks chronologically to create a project calendar
• Estimating needed resources and resource availability
• Determining the duration of activities and tasks
• Building project schedule
• Monitoring and control throughout the project life cycle

Who should attend?

Any member of a cross-functional project team with the potential opportunity to lead that project.

• Engineers
• Marketing Associates
• Product Managers 
• Program Managers
• Contract Managers
• Project Managers
• Research & Development Associates, Managers, and Directors
• Design Engineers
• Manufacturing Managers