Description

You are responsible for project planning and already have a basic plan in MS Project? After taking this course you will be able to construct a project schedule that forecasts your project reliably applying MS Project best practices and that is recalculated after only one edit.

What will you be able to do after the course?
The purpose for this Level 3 is to automate your schedule in such a way that it is:

* Valid: It must produce accurate forecasts
* Dynamic: It must update it self as much as possible. He estimates that for a 100 task / 3 month schedule about 50 hours of schedule maintenance is saved when you have a dynamic schedule. Only one change should be enough to calculate the rest of the model (just like you expect from Excel)
Robust: It must be able to deal with multiple scenario’s, like scheduling forwards and scheduling backwards
* Model: It must be a simplification of reality with only capturing those things that are important in this project – it should not resort into a checklist for all small activities
* Forecast: Checklists, task manuals, meeting schedules, database of historical estimates are reasons to have schedules, but the primary reason should be to forecast your major milestones.

Since this is our goal for this e-course "Critical Path Management" Maturity Level 3, we will focus on having a complete and correct network logic, minimize the use of date constraints, keep all completed work in the past and all work thats still needs to be done in the future. Four simple principles, that if maintained, will make you very happy with MS Project. But if not maintained, will guarantee a misbalance between the effort you put in your scheduling work and the benefits you reap from it.