This workshop is for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of Project Planning and Estimating. In particular: business analysts; project managers; customer journey managers; product owners; service designers; project leaders; and business change managers. 

Upon the completion of this workshop, candidates will be able to demonstrate understanding of:

• The project environment
• Project planning and estimating
• Key planning and estimating techniques
• The importance of monitoring project progress
• The need for project reporting and control 

To give you more of an idea of what you’ll learn and how the course will help you, here’s a quick guide to the day.

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

• The Project Environment
• Project Planning
• Estimating Deliverables
• Planning Networks and Charts
• Project Monitoring, Reporting and Control 

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Project Planning and Estimating (a one-day workshop)

Course Content

The Project Environment

• The ‘triple constraint’: time/cost/quality

The Project Plan  

• Elements of a project plan (schedule, quality, risk)  

• Contents and structure of a project plan  

Project Planning  

• The importance of breaking work down  

• Product breakdown structures  

• Project and User deliverables  

• Product flows and work packages  

• The concept of dependencies  

Estimating Deliverables  

• Key concepts in estimating  

• Estimating difficulties  

• Estimating by analogy  

• Parametric estimating  

• Effort and elapsed time estimates  

• Schedule compression  

Planning Networks and Charts  

• Precedence diagrams and project networks  

• The critical path and its implications  

• Gantt charts and resource histograms  

• Planning at an appropriate level  

Project Monitoring, Reporting and Control  

• The importance of monitoring and control