FastEDUCATION™ Seminar
Seminar: WBS & Schedule Development
Duration: 3 hours
Expected
Audience: Targeted for project
leaders, this session introduces the new or novice user to the important
features of the planning and scheduling tools available, and how to use them to
build a usable Work Breakdown Structure and associated schedule.
Pre-Requisites: At a minimum, attendees should have completed:
- Introductory PM Seminars
- Initiation & Planning
Objectives:
- Understand how to develop a usable WBS
- Identify key phases and break work down effectively
- Demonstrate the use of WBS development tools
- See how to upload and integrate the WBS into an MS Project schedule
- Know how to update the initial risk assessment
Format: Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Outline review
- Materials Tour
- Participant's experiences
- Project Planning Review
- Life cycle review
- PMP & Scope development
- Support Tools Review
- MS Project
- Project register
- Excel
- Top-Down Scheduling Review
- Initial Schedule Overview
- Preparing the Initial Key Phase WBS and Initial
Schedule
- Breakdown Development
- Ways to break work down
- Using Templates
- Integrating with MS Project
- Risk Planning Adjustments
- Risk Management Review
- Updating the Risk Log
- Summary & Wrap-up
Seminar Materials:
- Presentation matter
- Seminar notebook
- Links to detail forms and help sites
