Planning and Controlling the Project Schedule

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
This course offers practice and solutions for performing the forward and backward pass; calculating total float and free float; and critical path, resource optimization, and schedule compression techniques. While controlling project work, the project manager is responsible for identifying variance between project performance and the project baselines, and realigning project performance with the plan. This course provides a foundational knowledge base reflecting the most up-to-date project management information so you can effectively put principles to work at your own organization. This course will assist in preparing you for the CompTIA Project+ exam, and it is aligned with exam version PK0-004.

Target Audience
Candidates who possess at least 12 months of cumulative experience in leading, managing, directing, and/or participating in small-to-medium-size projects

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.9

Lesson Objectives

Planning and Controlling the Project Schedule

start the course

perform a forward pass using the critical path method

perform a backward pass using the critical path method

identify the total float of each noncritical path

identify the free float of each activity on a noncritical path

identify the critical path and its characteristics

recognize how to create a schedule network diagram from a table

recognize if resource leveling is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario

recognize if resource smoothing is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario

recognize if crashing is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario

recognize if fast tracking is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario

Course Number:
ib_prop_a06_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate