Course DescriptionEffective planning and scheduling increases the chances for meeting stakeholders’ expectations and delivering projects successfully. |
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Course Description
Effective planning and scheduling increases the chances for meeting stakeholders’ expectations and delivering projects successfully.
Regardless of the size or complexity, projects are often subject to the same critical analysis to figure out what is to be done? Who will do it? And when will it be done?
In this course, participants will gain more understanding of planning and scheduling tools and their applications.
On Day 1, participants will focus on developing the project plan through a series of workshops.
On Day 2, participants will translate their plan into a schedule using Microsoft Project.
All materials taught are compliant with the guidelines established in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK®, 5th Edition, from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Main Topics
Day 1
- Introduction to project management
- Project initiation: Charter workshop
- Project Planning: scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure workshop
- Project cost estimation: budgeting workshop
- Project Scheduling: Terms and methodology
- Identifying and managing risks
- Project Plan approval
Day 2
- Introduction to MS Project
- Customizing the software for your project
- Developing the schedule: entering activities and durations, sequencing activities, assigning and scheduling resources, resolving scheduling conflicts
- Optimizing and maintaining the schedule
Learning Objectives
- Learn key definitions and terms related to project management
- Develop the project charter
- Design and organise the work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Understand what it takes to develop project plans
- Gain exposure to scheduling and re-scheduling concepts
- Learn about the critical path
- Use the capabilities of MS Project Schedule to scheduling activities, assigning human resources and material
- Develop realistic and easy to maintain schedules
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable
Key Details
Trainer: Osama A.Wahid
Start Date: 13/11/2016
End Date: 14/11/2016
Timings: 8:30AM - 1:30PM
No. of Hours: 10
PDUs: 10
Fees: BD 150/-
Trainer
Osama A.Wahid, B.Eng. MPM PMP
Mr. Osama A.Wahid is a Canadian avid project management practitioner with more than 15 years of experience across multiple industries and projects including high profile mixed-use Real-Estate Development projects (Mag-Lev train project), Government Health Policies and training projects, Railroad Projects and construction management projects.
He has extensive experience in initiating, planning and executing projects with special focus on getting the scope right and scaling the project management tools to the project’s size and needs.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Osama has held several positions where he continued to be involved in technical project management and operational planning and problem solving. He filled several positions that required thinking out-of-the-box and delivering project solutions that had set a bench-mark for quality delivery in the organisation where he worked.
He received several recognition awards and continues to promote project management best practices to organisations and project teams.
He discovered that he had a passion for training when one of the challenges that he was faced with was to develop a comprehensive training programme for pharmaceutical scientific experts with an extremely limited budget. This is when he led the design, development and delivery of a training programme that was successfully delivered to almost 150 participants.
Mr. Osama speaks, reads and writes Arabic, English and French and he received his Masters of Project Management from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2004 and attained his certification as a Project Management Professional in 2006.
Trainer
Osama A.Wahid, B.Eng. MPM PMP
Mr. Osama A.Wahid is a Canadian avid project management practitioner with more than 15 years of experience across multiple industries and projects including high profile mixed-use Real-Estate Development projects (Mag-Lev train project), Government Health Policies and training projects, Railroad Projects and construction management projects.
He has extensive experience in initiating, planning and executing projects with special focus on getting the scope right and scaling the project management tools to the project’s size and needs.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Osama has held several positions where he continued to be involved in technical project management and operational planning and problem solving. He filled several positions that required thinking out-of-the-box and delivering project solutions that had set a bench-mark for quality delivery in the organisation where he worked.
He received several recognition awards and continues to promote project management best practices to organisations and project teams.
He discovered that he had a passion for training when one of the challenges that he was faced with was to develop a comprehensive training programme for pharmaceutical scientific experts with an extremely limited budget. This is when he led the design, development and delivery of a training programme that was successfully delivered to almost 150 participants.
Mr. Osama speaks, reads and writes Arabic, English and French and he received his Masters of Project Management from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in 2004 and attained his certification as a Project Management Professional in 2006.
