Why Choose PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Training Course?
PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Training Course is designed for professionals responsible for developing, maintaining, analysing, and communicating project schedules. This practical training course focuses on the principles, techniques, and controls required to create reliable schedules that support effective project planning and informed decision-making. Participants will gain a structured understanding of schedule strategy, scheduling governance, planning assumptions, activity logic, performance measurement, and reporting practices.
The training course examines the complete schedule lifecycle, from schedule development and baseline establishment through monitoring, forecasting, risk assessment, recovery planning, and schedule closeout. Participants will learn how to build logically linked schedules, analyse critical paths and float, evaluate schedule performance, and communicate meaningful scheduling information to stakeholders.
Through guided exercises, schedule reviews, practical analysis activities, and a progressive case study, participants will strengthen their ability to interpret schedule data, identify potential issues, and support corrective actions. This PMI-SP® Training Course provides practical scheduling skills that can be applied across engineering, construction, technology, infrastructure, and operational project environments while helping professionals improve schedule reliability and project delivery performance.
What are the Goals?
This PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Training Course is designed to strengthen participants’ ability to develop, analyse, monitor, and communicate project schedules that support successful project execution and informed decision-making.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a scheduling strategy that establishes scheduling methods, governance requirements, responsibilities, controls, and reporting arrangements.
- Create logically linked project schedules using appropriate duration estimates, calendars, dependencies, and resource information.
- Apply schedule analysis techniques to evaluate critical paths, float, schedule constraints, and sources of schedule uncertainty.
- Monitor schedule performance through regular updates, variance analysis, forecasting, and performance evaluation.
- Recommend practical and realistic corrective actions to address schedule deviations and improve project outcomes.
- Communicate schedule status, performance trends, risks, and forecasts effectively to relevant stakeholders.
- Implement structured schedule closeout activities and capture lessons learned for future project improvement.
Who is this Training Course for?
This PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Training Course is suitable for professionals involved in schedule development, monitoring, analysis, reporting, and project delivery performance management, including:
- Project planners and schedulers responsible for creating, maintaining, and controlling project schedules.
- Project controls engineers and project controls analysts involved in monitoring progress and evaluating schedule performance.
- Project managers responsible for achieving milestones, managing timelines, and ensuring schedule reliability.
- PMO professionals who review project schedules, establish reporting standards, and consolidate project performance information.
- Engineering, construction, technology, infrastructure, and operational delivery professionals with scheduling responsibilities.
- Professionals preparing for PMI-SP® certification or seeking to enhance their project scheduling and forecasting capabilities.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Training Course combines instructor-led learning with practical schedule development and schedule analysis activities. Participants work through a progressive case study that demonstrates how planning assumptions, activity relationships, progress data, and schedule updates influence project outcomes and forecast accuracy.
Interactive exercises, guided calculations, schedule reviews, and recovery-planning scenarios help participants apply concepts in realistic project environments without relying on a specific scheduling software package.
The training approach includes:
- Instructor-led tutorials supported by facilitated discussions.
- Practical network analysis, critical path analysis, and resource-planning exercises.
- Schedule updating, forecasting, variance analysis, and recovery-planning workshops.
- Case studies, group activities, and structured schedule review exercises.
This hands-on approach ensures participants can confidently apply scheduling techniques, improve schedule reliability, and support effective project decision-making in their workplace.
The Course Content
- Developing the schedule management approach and scheduling procedures.
- Defining scheduling roles, tools, coding structures and reporting requirements.
- Establishing calendars, milestones, assumptions and control thresholds.
- Integrating scope, the work breakdown structure and schedule activities.
- Identifying interfaces, external dependencies and stakeholder information needs.
- Establishing schedule governance and configuration control.
- Defining activities, sequencing work and selecting dependency relationships.
- Estimating durations using expert judgement, historical data and three-point estimates.
- Calculating early and late dates, total float and free float.
- Identifying critical and near-critical paths.
- Integrating resource availability and applying resource levelling or smoothing.
- Reviewing schedule logic, constraints and model quality.
- Obtaining stakeholder agreement and establishing the approved baseline.
- Defining progress measurement rules and status data collection methods.
- Applying the status date and validating actual and remaining work.
- Reviewing out-of-sequence progress and changes to schedule logic.
- Analysing baseline variance, trends and milestone movement.
- Interpreting earned value schedule indicators and understanding their limitations.
- Recalculating critical paths and forecasting completion dates.
- Preparing schedule narratives and exception reports.
- Identifying schedule risks, uncertainty and resource-related exposure.
- Understanding probabilistic schedule analysis and confidence levels.
- Assessing contingency and the implications of dependent activities.
- Comparing recovery scenarios, including crashing and fast-tracking.
- Evaluating the schedule impact of proposed changes.
- Applying change control and approved rebaselining procedures.
- Communicating forecasts, corrective actions and escalation recommendations.
- Tailoring schedule communication to sponsors, delivery teams and external stakeholders.
- Securing final schedule acceptance and reconciling completion records.
- Evaluating final performance and capturing estimating lessons learned.
- Archiving schedule models, assumptions and supporting records.
- Reviewing an integrated scheduling case.
- Applying course concepts through practical exercises and discussion.
- Identifying opportunities to apply learning in the workplace.
Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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