Understanding of minimum standards and best practice

Guidance on how to comply with Works information requirements laid out in contracts

Learn lessons from a wide base of delivery organisations

Benefit from a broad perspective of experienced controls practitioners

Planning Managers

Planning Engineers

Project Control Managers

Project Control Engineers

Cost Engineers

Project Managers

Project Support Team Members

Business Case purpose and typical contents

Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Levelling and smoothing

Scope Management via Breakdown Structures

RACI matrices

Dependency Integration

Requirements Management Process

Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS)

Schedule Buffers

Works Information and Statement of Work

Dependency Management

Stakeholder Management

Presentation of a Schedule- Bar Charts, Line of Balance, Time Chainage

The Outputs and Benefits of Planning

Cost Estimating

Schedule Narrative Typical Contents

Type of Schedule

Planning and Scheduling – the differences and relationships

Baselines and Baselining Principles

Short-Term Planning

Schedule Review Considerations

Schedule Densities `

Schedule Templates (Fragnets)

(Planning) Handover and Closeout

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning

Activity Relationships

Baseline Maintenance, Re-Planning And Re-Programming

Performance Reporting - Variance Analysis and Performance Analysis Methods

Rolling Wave Planning

Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

Different ‘Levels’ of Schedule (and types)

Allowing for Risk

Time-Based and Activity Step (Tracker) Schedules

Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and Terminology

Schedule Design Considerations

Hierarchical Breakdown Structure Types, Characteristics, Relationships and Use

‘What Ifs’ (Scenario Planning)

Product Breakdown Structures (PBS)

Critical Path Analysis, Time Analysis and Floats

The Earned Value Analysis Calculation and Benefits

Work Packages

Cost Control

Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and the 100% Rule

Scheduling Constraints

Responsibility Assignment Matrices (RAM)

Risk Management in General and Quantitative Analysis in Particular

Organisation Breakdown Structures (OBS)

Duration Estimates

Forensic Analysis

Change Control

Record Keeping

Leads and Lags

Work Breakdown Structure Dictionaries

Schedule Resourcing

The project planning and control qualification scheme supports publication of the Association for Project Management (APM) guide, ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control - The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk.’ The book is the APM’s first comprehensive set of guidance and best practice for project planning and control and is applicable across all industries and sectors.