Introduction to the Advanced Project Scheduling Workshop

• Course prerequisites
• Overview of course goals

Critical Path Fundamentals

• Overview of critical path characteristics
• Critical path as a “root cause analysis”
• Driving paths

Critical Path Characteristics:  Fact or Fiction?

• Test commonly held beliefs about the critical path

Schedule Calculation Options

• Out-of-sequence (OOS) progress
• Retained Logic
• Progress Override

Analyzing Schedule Changes (PS Case Study #14)

• Analyze the status impacts to determine the source of schedule delays

WBS vs. IMP

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Integrated Master Plan (IMP)

Resource Loading and Leveling

• Benefits of resource loaded schedules
• Basic resource limitations: Resource capacity and time
• Resource leveling priorities

Resource Leveling (PS Case Study #20)

• Apply resource leveling principles to model an achievable plan

Integrating Subcontract Schedules

• Major Interface Milestones only
• Representative Model
• Full Integration

Schedule Acceleration Techniques

• Identify the various schedule acceleration techniques
• Understand the potential drawback of each technique
• Participate in a schedule acceleration demonstration

Managing Schedule Risk

• Duration Uncertainty
• Unplanned Risk Events
• Merge Bias

Schedule Risk Assessments

• Overview of SRA process
• Using SRA Results
• Schedule Margin

Earned Value - Introduction to EVMS

• Overview of basic EV terms/principles
• Demonstrate the relationship between the schedule and EVMS
• Calculation and use of common EV indices

Interpreting and Calculating Cost and Schedule Variances (EVMS Case Study #4)

• Reinforce understanding of basic cost and schedule indices

Analysis Using EVMS Calculations with the Schedule

• Use summary EVMS data to identify schedule risk areas
• Combining EVM indices and schedule data to diagnose issues

Schedule Analysis Combining SPI, CPI and Critical Path (PS Case Study #16)

• Use schedule status to calculate indices and forecast project completion

Modeling Level of Effort (LOE)

• Forecasting LOE
• Avoiding LOE on the critical path
• LOE anomalies, issues and errors

IPMDAR DID Scheduling Requirements

• Overview of scheduling requirements in each section of the IPMDAR DID

DCMA EVMS Compliance Metrics (DECM)

• Test metric specifications for each schedule metric
• Examples of each issue

Performing a Schedule Audit (PS Case Study #22)

• Review a project schedule from the customer perspective, identifying potential issues and areas of concern

Earned Schedule

• Like EV, but from a different perspective
• Calculation of time-based SPI (SPI_t)
• Calculation of time-based Schedule Variance (SV_t)
• Calculation of To- Complete SPI_t and comparison to SPI_t

Using Independent Forecast Completion Date (IFCD) Formulas

• Comparison to IEAC formulas
• BCWP-based IFCD formulas
• BCWS-based IFCD formulas
• Earned Schedule-based IFCD formulas

Appendix

Course Evaluation Sheet

Adjourn