Become a Project Scheduler

By: Various authors.

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Course 1 – Project Management Foundation: Schedules with Bonnie Biafore

You can build project schedules that help you accomplish your project goals on time and within budget, while being flexible enough to accommodate change. Bonnie Biafore teaches you how to manage project schedules. Learn how to develop a plan for schedule management, identify activities and milestones, estimate costs, allocate and negotiate for resources, and manage the schedule over time. Bonnie shows how to uncover and resolve schedule conflicts. By the end of the course, you will be able to meet stakeholder expectations and adapt to changes as they arise.

Course 2 – Microsoft Project 2016 Essential Training with Bonnie Biafore

Microsoft Project 2016 is a powerful project management software. Work tasks, summary tasks, milestones, and recurring tasks are some of the project components that you can learn how to set up. Bonnie Biafore, a Project Management Professional (PMP)®, explores the different types of resources used in projects and how to set up their availability and cost. She shows how to link tasks together and assign resources to build a realistic project schedule. The course explains how to use Project 2016 to evaluate your schedule and resources to make sure you bring a project in on time and within budget. Bonnie shows how to use the new features in Project 2016 such as multiple timelines and the tell me what you want to do field.

Course 3 – Learning Gantt Charts with Chris Croft

Do you know what a gantt chart is? A gantt chart can be used to show the critical deadlines associated with any project, connecting start and end dates of individual tasks and their interdependencies. In this course, project management trainer and gantt chart enthusiast Chris Croft explains how to use different gantt chart software to create and use a gantt chart for a variety of purposes. Learn how to create Gantt charts to communicate with customers, plan resources, monitor progress for one or multiple projects, assess risk, predict spend, and decide whether or not you can speed up your project. Chris gives tips to help you avoid mistakes.

Course 4 – Project Management: Calculating Earned Value with Aileen Ellis

BAC, CV, etc. Don’t let the earned value acronym deter you. As she walks you through earned value calculation, follow along with Aileen Ellis, PgMP. It’s relevant for those considering the exam. Or One of the most critical project metrics is earned value management. Aileen walks through two concrete examples, a construction project and a system upgrade, and shows how earned value metrics can help you calculate current performance and forecast future performance. The results of the calculations and forecasts can be used to make better project decisions.

Course 5 – Project Management: Preventing Scope Creep with Terri Wagner

Are your projects creeping out of your control, with little additions here and there? After the project plan has been agreed upon, are stakeholders changing their expectations? This course will show you how to keep your project scope intact through proactive project management.

Course 6 – Project Management Foundations: Change with Doug Rose

If you want to work on fast- moving projects, you need to know how to manage change requests. A change request is either an opportunity or a ticket to chaos. Doug Rose walks you through the elements of change in a project using a sample software project. Learn how to set the stage for change, weigh the change impact, understand the cascade effect, and implement the change.

Learn how to effectively manage your project for change requests and deal with common obstacles along the way. It is possible to find the balance between too much and too little change.

Course 7 – Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project with John Riopel

Microsoft Project can help you manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules. The course teaches how to verify project schedules by checking task links, checking lag between tasks, and more. He shows how to review the schedule, use multiple critical paths, and find incomplete paths. Find out how to shorten the schedule by fast-tracking tasks, shortening lag time, using crashing, and assigning overtime. Learn how to best execute the schedule, set a baseline and enter actuals for the project.

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