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Project Planning and Scheduling Course – WBS and CPM in complex projects – 10 ore
An operational project planning and scheduling course to build reliable baselines, govern delays and support project control in complex projects.
🌍 Context and prospects
In complex projects the problem is not "making a plan", ma have a program that supports reality: changes in purpose, engineering delays, procurement slippages, construction site interference and contractual pressures.
Too often plans are built to be approved, not to be used as project governance tools.
In EPC contexts and large infrastructure projects, planning must become a operating system: must integrate purpose, sequences, resources, contractual milestones and physical progress, and provide a credible baseline against which to measure performance and accountability.
This course addresses project planning and scheduling from this perspective: not as a modeling exercise, But how control and decision tool. From the construction of the WBS to the development of the CPM program, up to the management of progress and comparison with the baseline, the path provides a concrete method to transform the plan into a real support for project control.
📄Description
The course addresses project planning and scheduling as central components of the Project Control system, not as simple plan representation tools. The goal is to provide a method for building project programs that can be used as baseline operative, on which to measure progress, evaluate deviations and support management decisions.
Starting from the definition of the purpose via WBS, the guide path to the construction of the CPM program, integration with resources and procurement and management of physical progress compared to the baseline. Particular attention is paid to the comparison between the current plane and the reference plane, reading delays and their impact on contractual milestones and project objectives.
The contents are designed for EPC contexts and complex projects, where the schedule is not a simple planning output, but an essential tool for governing interdependencies, operational risks and responsibilities.
📌 Deepening: 👉 Read the dedicated article on the blog → Analysis and evaluation of delays in projects
📚Course content
The course delves into the following operational areas in detail:
Project Plan e Baseline – how to build and use the project baseline as a technical and contractual reference for time control.
Scope Management e WBS – structured definition of the scope to ensure that the program correctly represents the work to be performed.
Scheduling con CPM e Gantt – development of programs that reflect operational interdependencies and allow the real critical path to be identified.
Resource Planning – integration of loads and availability to make the program executable and not just theoretical.
Scheduling del Procurement – alignment of supplies, engineering and construction within the project program.
Progress measurement and delay control – systematic comparison between plan and real data to identify deviations and performance trends.
Performance indicators and reporting – use of the program as a decision support tool in project control.
This content is presented through concrete examples and directly applicable operational tools, taken from the Master in Project Management and Control.
📊Why participate
This course is designed for those who don't want to limit themselves to "making a plan", but it must govern project times in conditions of complexity, uncertainty and contractual pressure.
It provides a structured way to build credible time baselines, integrate planning, resources and procurement, and use the project program as an operational control and decision-making tool.
In particular, the course allows:
- build CPM programs that truly represent the scope of work and operational interdependencies;
- use the baseline as a technical reference to measure progress and delays;
- interpret the deviations not as simple date variations, but as project performance signals;
- integrate planning and project control, creating a natural bridge towards Earned Value Management and Cost Control.
It is a key module for those who work in EPC or complex projects and need to transform the project program into a governance tool, not in a simple planning output.
📌 Deepening: 👉 Project Management methodologies for success: PERT, CPM, EVM
👤 Why follow this course with me?
In over thirty years of activity on complex projects, I worked on project programs that had to support operational decisions, contractual reviews and delay analysis, do not simply represent a sequence of activities. I've seen too many plans built to be approved and filed away, but unusable when the project enters its most critical phase.
My experience in planning, in project control and delay analysis led me to consider the project program as a technical and contractual baseline, on which to measure real progress, assign responsibility and govern the impacts of changes.
This course was born from that concrete experience. It is not a “CPM” course, but a path up how to build programs that stand up to the reality of EPC and complex projects: changes in purpose, engineering and procurement delays, construction site interference and contractual pressures.
The goal is to provide planner, project manager and controller an operational method to transform planning into a project governance tool, and not in a simple modeling exercise.
Training objectives
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- build structured and realistic project programs, consistent with the scope of work and operational constraints;
- develop time baselines that can be used for control, not just for planning;
- apply techniques scheduling con Gantt e CPM to correctly represent interdependencies and critical path;
- measure progress and analyze deviations compared to the baseline, identifying delays and performance trends;
- integrate planning, resources and supplies to support project control decisions in complex projects.
These objectives are designed to provide you with technical skills, operational and strategic immediately applicable in your working context and to improve your ability to control and management of times in complex projects.
📌 Course structure
The structure is designed to ensure gradual and immediately applicable learning.
🎓 Microlerications: Short videos from about 15 minutes to facilitate the autonomous use of the contents;
- ✅ Verification quiz: Each module includes multiple response tests to consolidate learning, with a total of 120 requests;
- 📖 In -depth readings: Some lessons include extra materials and a final study dedicated to the risks of contractual changes, commented by the teacher.
📘 Course program
📌 Lesson 1: Project Plan (Plan development and project baseline)
📌 Lesson 2: Scope Planning (Scope definition and WBS)
📌 Lesson 3: Project Planning and Scheduling methodologies and techniques
📌 Lesson 4: Potential of the CPM method
📌 Lesson 5: Development of the Project Programme
📌 Lesson 6: Resource planning and scheduling
📌 Lesson 7: Resource procurement and planning
📌 Lesson 8: Introduction to the project control process: comparison of current plan vs baseline
📌 Lesson 9: Progress measurement techniques and parameters
📌 Lesson 10: Time control techniques and parameters
In -depth readings
- Potential of the CPM method
- The Torre Pelli case (Seville) – Procurement and planning
🎯 Prerequisites
No prerequisites are necessary but a base of knowledge of project management principles is appropriate. It is suggested, possibly, to attend the course “Essential principles of project management and management of stakeholders”, which represents an ideal introduction to this course.
👥 To whom it is addressed
This course is designed for a large and diversified audience of professionals and aspiring professionals operating in the world of projects:
- Project Manager, Planner, Schedulers and Controllers who wish to enhance their skills in planning and time control, using advanced tools such as CPM;
- Project managers and coordinators in the engineering sectors, construction and plant engineering, interested in ensuring compliance with deadlines in complex projects;
- Team leaders and transversal figures involved in the operational management of work groups and interdependent activities;
- Young professionals and recent graduates in the technical-scientific field, who want to acquire concrete and distinctive skills to access roles related to project management;
- Companies and organizations, public or private, who intend to train their staff to strengthen planning and internal control capabilities on projects.
🎯 Start your training course immediately
📝 Sign up for the Planning Course now, Project screen and control - 10 ore
Prezzo: € 416,00 (including Inarcassa supplementary contribution 4%)
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