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Please Note: You can book this course and hold it in credit until you have decided on a specific course date. Alternatively, please view our other course dates
What Will You Learn?
Our APMG Project Planning & Control™ Combined Foundation & Practitioner training course will cover the following syllabus areas:
DEFINITION (DE)
Delegates are introduced to the world of projects with an emphasis on planning, monitoring and control.
Foundation
Practitioner
PLANNING (PL)
The following areas will be discussed:
Foundation
Practitioner
SCHEDULING (SC)
The following areas will be discussed:
Foundation
1. Critical path
2. Time analysis
3. Free float
4. Total float
5. Negative float
6. Lead
7. Lag
8. Time contingency
9. Buffer
1. Scheduling, and the outputs created
2. Network templates (Fragnets)
3. 'What Ifs' (Scenario Planning)
4. Schedule design
5. Critical path network
6. Time analysis
1. Relationships between the different densities of schedules on a typical project
2. Schedule detail density considerations and principles
1. Including 'typical contents'
2. Tender or 'Bid' schedule - plus 'typical contents'
3. Contract schedule
4. Baseline schedule
5. Summary schedule
6. Working or 'Forecast' schedule - plus 'typical contents'
7. Short and medium-term schedule
8. Procurement schedules
9. Design deliverables tracker
1. Hammock
2. Dummy tasks
3. Milestones
4. Identity numbers
5. Activity descriptions
6. Activity types
7. Activity steps
8. Time units
9. Calendars
10. Ordinal dates
11. Project, activity and resource coding
1. Monitoring float
2. Different methods of logic linking
3. Leads and lags
4. Activity constraints
5. Barcharts to display networks
1. Three point estimates
2. PERT (Programme Evaluation Review Technique)
3. Comparative
4. Benchmark data
5. Resource-dependent
6. Expert opinion
1. Horizontal and vertical integration of schedules
2. Buffers (incl. advantages and limitations)
1. Bar Charts (Gantt Charts)
2. Milestone reporting
3. Line of Balance
4. Time Chainage
Practitioner
1. Identification
2. Coding
3. Integration and impact analysis (incl. internal and external integration)
4. Impact resolution
MONITOR AND CONTROL (MC)
The following areas will be discussed:
Foundation
1. Budget at Completion - BAC
2. Planned Cost - PV
3. Earned Value - EV
4. Actual Cost - AC
1. Project baseline
2. Short-term planning
3. Cost control
4. Forensic Analysis
5. Record keeping
1. Risk Management Plan
2. Residual Risk
3. Risk Draw Down
4. Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA)
5. Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA)
6. Sensitivity Analysis
1. Change Management together with the two levels of change to scope or delivery method
2. Changes
3. Change Order
1. Principles of project baselining
2. When to set the baseline
3. Links with change management
4. Cost Control
5. Cost Value Report
1. Baseline maintenance
2. Change management
1. Re-planning of the project
2. Re-programming of the project
1. Drop line method
2. Activity weeks method
3. Milestone monitoring
4. Cash Flow monitoring
5. Resource monitoring
1. Work Packages
2. Planning Packages
3. Management Reserve and Contingency
4. Risk Mitigations
1. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
2. Estimate to Complete (ETC)
3. Estimated Final Cost (EFC)
1. 'Make ready needs'
2. Use of co-ordination meetings and performance reporting
1. Steps
2. Key Activities
3. Decisions
1. Appropriate uses
2. Advantages and disadvantages
3. Budget loading the schedule
4. Drawing S curves
5. Measuring Progress to Calculate Earned Value
6. Recording actual costs
7. Calculation of Variances and KPIs
8. Forecasting terminology
Practitioner
1. Its reliance on Monte Carlo analysis
2. The two elements of QSRA
3. Process - stages and their characteristics
4. Outputs (Probability Charts and Tornado Charts)
1. Process - stages and their characteristics
2. Outputs (Cumulative Normal Distributions (S-curves) for cost impacts, Sensitivity (Tornado) Charts and QSRA Percentiles)
3. Use of Sensitivity Analysis
1. As-Planned vs. As-Built Method (AP v AB)
2. Impacted As-Planned Method (IAP)
3. Collapsed As-built Method (CAB) or AS-built But For (ABBF)
4. Time Impact Analysis Method (TIA)
1. Drop line method
2. Activity Weeks method
3. Milestone monitoring
4. Cash Flow monitoring
5. Resource monitoring
6. Network Analysis and measurement of float usage
1. Curves showing Planned Value, Actual Cost and Earned Value, Cost and Schedule Variance
2. Cost and Schedule Variance Charts
3. Bulls Eye Performance Charts
1. Cost Variance (CV)
2. Schedule Variance (SV)
3. Schedule Performance Index (SPI) Cost Performance Index (CPI)
1. Estimate At Completion (EAC)
2. Estimate To Complete (ETC) Estimate Time To Complete (ETTC)
1. Change Request
2. Change Log
3. Monthly Change Report
1. Probability Charts
2. Tornado Chart
3. Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) Chart Duration Uncertainty Tornado Chart
1. Whether specific activities undertaken to establish and maintain a Project Baseline are appropriate, with reasons
2. Whether Performance Reports are fit for purpose, with reasons
1. Drop line method
2. Activity Weeks method
3. Milestone monitoring
4. Cash Flow monitoring
5. Resource monitoring
6. Network Analysis and measurement of float usage
1. Change Request
2. Change Log
3. Monthly Change Report
1. Probability Charts
2. Tornado Chart
3. Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) Chart
4. Duration Uncertainty Tornado Chart are appropriate and accurate.
Our APMG Project Planning & Control™ Combined Foundation & Practitioner training course is suitable for the following roles:
All relevant course materials are provided, which includes the APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Manual and the APMG Project Planning & Control™ Foundation and Practitioner examinations.
No prerequisites are necessary for attendance, although you would benefit from some experience and understanding of basic planning principles and terminology.
Our APMG Project Planning & Control™ Combined Foundation & Practitioner training course uses unique multimedia case-studies and accelerated-learning techniques to ensure that theory is embedded and you feel confident in the practical application of learning points. Additional evening work will be required in the form of consolidation reading and mock examination questions. The evening work is an integral part of the course and you should expect to spend approximately two hours on these activities each evening. The evening work is aimed at helping effective preparation for the examinations.
APMG Project Planning & Control™ Foundation Exam
APMG Project Planning & Control™ Practitioner Exam
ITIL® is used by millions of professionals globally. Businesses are built on the ITIL® framework. Every year, organizations all over the world invest heavily in adopting and adapting the ITIL® 4 Foundation into their business practices and up-skilling their staff with ITIL® 4 qualifications.
You might be interested in our three-day ITIL® 4 Foundation training course will enable you to understand a new way to look at IT Service Management (ITSM) through a Service Value System (SVS).
Effective planning and control requires an understanding of a clear project definition, supported by a robust approach to planning the project. This, in turn requires the selection and use of appropriate scheduling techniques which are supported by rigorous monitoring for effective proactive control. A sound basis for effective record keeping will facilitate the understanding of lessons learned which supports continuous improvement, thus adding value to organisational aspirations and objectives. As a practitioner, you will demonstrate your ability to interpret and apply the Foundation topics to various project scenarios.
Our APMG Project Planning & Control™ Combined Foundation & Practitioner training course is delivered over five days.
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