Operational planning and monitoring of a project

Context and rationale

To achieve the set objective, planning is an essential phase. Without it, nothing is under control, and the project manager and team would be sailing blind.

Planning aims to organise the sequence of the project's stages over time. It is a fundamental task for keeping to deadlines.

This course first teaches you a project analysis approach, a prerequisite for determining the project's constraints and limits. It then covers the techniques for drawing up the project's roadmap. Finally, you learn how to keep this plan alive and adapt it according to monitoring information.

Training objectives

Mastering the concepts, methods and techniques for developing a project.
Mastering the concepts, methods and techniques for preparing a forecast schedule
Acquiring an approach for adjusting this schedule during the project

Training content

Planning tools and techniques

The steering process
Definitions
Tools on the market
Planning levels
Summary: the planning approach

Listing the tasks

Gathering constraints
Project analysis: PBS, OBS, SHA and WBS diagrams
Breaking down the product
Taking risks into account

Representing dependencies and positioning them in time

The PERT diagram
Calculating float
The critical path
The Gantt chart
The principle of the V-model cycle
Principle of the RAD cycle
Principle of the Agile/Scrum cycle

Assigning resources

Determining the resources needed
Assignment techniques
Using the critical path,
By prioritising resources
Workload levelling
The workload plan

Monitoring and rescheduling

Producing and checking individual schedules
The importance of work consumed and work remaining
Monitoring coefficients
The C method (BCWS, ACWP and BCWP curves)
Warning situations and countermeasures
Multi-project monitoring

Good practices

Steering schedule and work plan
Example of schedule monitoring with MS Project

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