Duration: 2 consecutive days

Contact Hours/PDUs: 14

Instructor led: On-site

Learn how to create a WBS & Schedule that truly works!

This highly interactive 2-day workshop teaches the foundational concepts and best practices for creating an effective Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and realistic Project Schedule.  Utilizing real project scenarios, participants will expand their project management skills in the following key topics:

The “How To” of building a WBS:

• Defining the characteristics of a high quality WBS
• How to avoid common errors and omissions
• Key WBS attributes and rules
• WBS – Decomposition
• Sticky note technique
• Project Management Institutes (PMI) Practice
• Standard for Work Breakdown Structures

Dynamics of estimating the schedule:

• Numerous estimating techniques for conceptual, preliminary and definitive estimates.
• The issues and constraints involved in estimating resource requirements.
• Techniques to improve the accuracy of estimates.
• The psychological dimension of estimation.
• How to collect and archive data for future project efficiency

Developing a realistic schedule:

• Type of Network diagrams (ND)
• The “ins and outs” of precedence relationships
• Sequencing for the best overall delivery
• Determine critical path and float
• Schedule compression techniques
• Setting realistic milestones
• Schedule risk analysis and contingency
• Controlling the schedule