Students will be guided through the PMBOK® Guide 4th Edition and The Practice Standard for Scheduling® to develop a working knowledge of project time management. By examining the tools and techniques of schedule development and the relationships between scheduling and other processes, students will become well prepared for the PMI-SP certification exam.
Course Syllabus
- Schedule Mission Management – An introduction to project initiation and project scope management.
- Schedule Creation – Best practices in the project time and human resources planning processes.
- Schedule Maintenance – An overview of the integrated change control process, effectively baselining schedules, and the update cycle.
- Schedule Analysis – A look at how to use the schedule model with analysis tools such as critical path method, critical chain, and monte-carlo analysis.
- Schedule Communications / Reporting – An overview of the relationship between schedule and cost control and the performance reporting process.
To take the PMI-SP exam, you must meet PMI’s professional experience requirements. Therefore, this course is best for project managers with a minimum of 3-6 years, plus 3,500 hours of documented PM experience.
PMI-SP Exam Requirements
- Applicants must have 30 (with a Bachelor’s Degree) or 40 hours (without Degree) of specific project management education.
- With a Bachelor’s Degree (or the global equivalent): Applicants must have a minimum of 3,500 hours spent in the area of professional project scheduling, within five years from the time of application.
- Without a Bachelor’s Degree (or the global equivalent): Applicants must have a minimum of 5,000 hours spent in the area of professional project scheduling, within five years from the time of application.