PLANNING & SCHEDULING PROFESSIONAL (PSP)
Course Information
Course Objectives:
- Understand the concept of planning and scheduling projects and the importance of planning and scheduling projects.
- Learn how to create and read bar (Gantt) charts and node networks.
- Understand the concept of the Critical Path Method (CPM) in scheduling projects and how to perform CPM calculations and the definition of terminology relating to CPM.
- Learn the steps involved in creating a CPM schedule for any project.
- Learn how to “load” your schedule with cost and resources.
- Learn how to update projects to reflect actual performance as part of the project control effort.
- Get tips for better and more efficient scheduling and reporting.
- Get a brief idea on:
- Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) with four types of relationships.
- The concept of resource leveling.
- The concept of schedule compression & the techniques involved to crash projects.
- Earned Value Analysis.
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).
- Linear Scheduling Method (LSM).
Schedule Seminar Outline:
Day1:
Day2:
Day3:
Day4:
Day 5:
Day1:
- Exam Structure.
- Introduction on construction project management.
- Establishing Project Baselines.
- Basic Project Planning.
- Question-Answer Session on Planning.
Day2:
- Cost estimation, concepts, terminology, classification.
- Estimate variability, algorithmic, codes of accounts and historical data.
- Internationalization.
- Question-Answer Session.
Day3:
- Planning the estimate.
- Estimating methodology.
- Quantification.
- Costing and pricing.
- Conditioning.
- Question-Answer Session.
Day4:
- Risk evaluation and contingency determination.
- Documentation, reconciliation, review and validation, reporting, close out and Building Information Modeling (BIM).
- Bidding and budgeting.
Day 5:
- Working examples.
- Memo writing.
- Closing.