Course DescriptionProject scheduling is at the heart of project management. To successfully run any significant project, managers must accurately identify required resources, sequence work activities, estimate the time needed to perform those activities and carefully track progress againts their estimates. Project managers should know when and how to crash a project and to which level they should crash a project. |
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Course Description
Project scheduling is at the heart of project management. To successfully run any significant project, managers must accurately identify required resources, sequence work activities, estimate the time needed to perform those activities and carefully track progress againts their estimates. Project managers should know when and how to crash a project and to which level they should crash a project.
Main Topics
- Project Scheduling
- Key Scheduling Terminology
- Constructing the Critical Path
- Lags in precedence relationships
- Crashing projects
Learning Objectives
- Understand and apply key scheduling terminology.
- Apply the logic used to create activity network, including predecessor and successor takes.
- Develop an activity network using Activity-on-Node AON techniques.
- Perform activity duration estimation based on the use of probabilistic estimating techniques.
- Construct the critical path using forward and backward passes.
- Identify activity float and the manner in which it is determined.
- Understand how to crash a project.
Projects progress quickly until they become 90% complete; then remain at 90% complete forever unless there is a proper Project Management in place
Key Details
Trainer: Yousif Faraj
Start Date: 15/11/2016
End Date: 16/11/2016
Timings: 4:00PM - 9:00PM
No. of Hours: 10
PDUs: 10
Fees: BD 150/-
Trainer
Yousif Faraj, MBA, CAPM, MBCI
Mr. Yousif Faraj is a senior lecturer in the BIBF with more than 17 years’ experience in different banking and training industries. Prior to joining the BIBF, Yousif was an IT Projects Officer, Business Continuity Management (BMC) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) Coordinator at the HSBC for 8 years. His prime responsibilities among others included the management of all IT projects which also comprised the preparation of the Periodic/Annual IT Plan and related Returns, along with the preparation of the Annual Technology Projects Plan.
Mr. Yousif carries with him extensive experience and knowledge in different areas of project management such as scheduling and project performance. He has completed more than 4000 training hours in this important field with other subjects developing numerous courses related to project management. Previously, he was an IT project manager for the HSBC Adliya branch, where his role was to initiate and plan all the IT related activities for the new branch.
Moreover, Mr. Yousif was also an IT project coordinator at the HSBC headquarters in Seef, and his responsibilities included the planning of all IT activities, including frequent liaison with the various vendors and stakeholders.
When overseeing the ICDL programme for the BIBF and Ministry of Labour in the capacity of the project manager for a period of two years, Mr. Yousif’s main objective was to train 1000 unemployed individuals in ensuring they were ICDL certified. His core responsibility included initiating and managing the entire project charter with the Ministry of Labour in preparing the complete plan along with the project-related communication and risk management.
Trainer
Yousif Faraj, MBA, CAPM, MBCI
Mr. Yousif Faraj is a senior lecturer in the BIBF with more than 17 years’ experience in different banking and training industries. Prior to joining the BIBF, Yousif was an IT Projects Officer, Business Continuity Management (BMC) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) Coordinator at the HSBC for 8 years. His prime responsibilities among others included the management of all IT projects which also comprised the preparation of the Periodic/Annual IT Plan and related Returns, along with the preparation of the Annual Technology Projects Plan.
Mr. Yousif carries with him extensive experience and knowledge in different areas of project management such as scheduling and project performance. He has completed more than 4000 training hours in this important field with other subjects developing numerous courses related to project management. Previously, he was an IT project manager for the HSBC Adliya branch, where his role was to initiate and plan all the IT related activities for the new branch.
Moreover, Mr. Yousif was also an IT project coordinator at the HSBC headquarters in Seef, and his responsibilities included the planning of all IT activities, including frequent liaison with the various vendors and stakeholders.
When overseeing the ICDL programme for the BIBF and Ministry of Labour in the capacity of the project manager for a period of two years, Mr. Yousif’s main objective was to train 1000 unemployed individuals in ensuring they were ICDL certified. His core responsibility included initiating and managing the entire project charter with the Ministry of Labour in preparing the complete plan along with the project-related communication and risk management.
