Certificate of Achievement

Hemal Thakore

has completed the following course:

Time Management Strategies for Project Management

Purdue University

Every project manager or project leader has had a project that seems to spiral out of control - absorbing more time and resource than was planned. This course will help you stop that happening. You will learn time management strategies to help you prevent projects becoming unmanageable and develop the fundamental skills of a project manager to make sure every project you run meets its deadlines.

2 weeks, 3 hours per week

Rita Burrell

Executive Director, Engineering Professional Education

Purdue University

94%
overall score

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • List the time management processes
  • Identify components of the schedule management plan
  • Define an activity
  • Describe the transition from scope to schedule
  • Explain the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
  • Distinguish the difference between a mandatory and discretionary dependency
  • Define lags and leads
  • Calculate the critical path for a project using the critical path method, including forward and backward pass
  • Calculate float for each activity
  • Explain why schedule compression may be necessary
  • Distinguish the difference between crashing and fast tracking and the project implications of each
  • Describe the difference between a schedule and target completion date
  • Identify the difference between the critical chain method and the critical path method
  • Define project and feeding buffers
  • Define resource leveling and resource smoothing
  • Determine when these two techniques are necessary
  • Explain the point when a schedule is base lined
  • Explain project milestones
  • Create a Gantt chart with project data
  • List the things that a Gantt chart can display
  • List the benefits and challenges in using scheduling software

Syllabus

  • Introduce the time management processes
  • Explain the key concepts in time management, including lags and leads, critical path, feeding buffers, resource leveling, resource smoothing, schedule completion date, target completion date, milestones.
  • Explain various tools and methods improving time management, including Precedence Diagraming Method (PDM), Critical Path Methods, Critical Chain Method, Gantt chart

Issued on 19th May 2017

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Time Management Strategies for Project Management

Purdue University