This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of PMI scheduling professional (PMI-SP). It covers the project schedule configuration management policies and procedures; the schedule approach, based on the unique characteristics of the project; the scheduling policies and procedures; the scheduling-related components for project management plans; the information about project scheduling objectives and goals; the role of the schedule and scheduling procedures; and the work breakdown structure (WBS), organizational breakdown structure (OBS), control accounts (CA) and work packages.
Further, the course will also discuss the activities and milestones in identifying and documenting the work to be performed; the activity durations and activities incorporating defined dependencies milestones and constraints; the critical and near-critical path(s), the project resource breakdown structure (RBS) and schedule model; the alignment of schedule and analyzation of major milestones; the schedule risk analysis; the consensus of the project customer, sponsor, project manager and project team members; and the performance measurement baseline (PMB).