An Introduction to Project Planning & Control Qualifications™ October 2016 Introduce course. Ensure everyone is meant to be on this course!

Your Hosts ROD BAKER Non Exec Director APMG International Director and Trustee of APM JOHN NEVE Project Planning & Control Trainer Training Byte Size

Agenda Planning – man or machine? APM PMSC Guide Qualification background Course overview Exam information Q&A

Project Management Systems

Project Management Systems

Project Management Systems

Project Management Systems

APM PSMC Guide Association for Project Management Special Interest Group – Planning, Monitoring and Control ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk.’ The book is the APM’s first comprehensive set of guidance and best practice for project planning and control and is applicable across all industries and sectors. The guidance is the result of work by the APM Planning Monitoring and Control SIG at their regular meetings over the last 2 years, and is based on Practitioner experience from both customer and supplier perspectives. The intention of the guidance is to help raise understanding so that standards can be set by organizations against a common text to ensure that they can assure a set standard and aim for best practice as well as get value for money from their projects. Above all the intention is to provide greater certainty over project delivery.

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Business Case recommended contents benefit realisation Scope Management ways of defining scope breakdown structures relationships between the breakdown structures Requirements Management linking requirements to the breakdown structures the ‘VVRM’ (the V model) Works Information / Statement of Work Stakeholder Management need to engage throughout input to requirements

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Planning compared with Scheduling confusion caused by job titles approaches to planning schedule components rolling wave planning Planning more details about the … PBS, WBS, WBS Dictionary OBS, RAM, RACI Matrix CBS, RBS cost estimating budgeting

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Scheduling schedule types schedule design critical path analysis dependency types leads and lags constraints float duration estimating resource histograms horizontal and vertical integration buffers interface management schedule review

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Communicating the Schedule bar charts (Gantt) milestone charts line of balance charts time chainage charts the schedule narrative

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Baselining principles baseline maintenance baseline re-planning baseline re-programming Monitoring and Control variance analysis methods performance analysis earned value analysis cost control short-term planning change management

Project Planning and Control Course Coverage Risk Management overall process Monte Carlo (QSRA, QCRA) tornado charts and to finish forensic analysis record keeping learning from experience

The Examinations Foundation multiple choice 50 questions 40 minutes 25/50 to pass Practitioner objective test 80 questions 3 hours 40/80 to pass

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