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

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

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

4. Project Management Systems

5. Project Management Systems

6. Project Management Systems

7. Project Management Systems

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. Questions?