Prerequisites
Course 601, Planning and Scheduling (P3).
Course Description
During this one-day Resource and Cost Analysis course, you will learn to use driving resources, resource curves, hierarchical resources, resource profiles/tables and resource leveling. Learn resource calendars for planning and control and rich text format reports for status reporting. Participants will develop, update, and track resources and costs using a series of hands-on workshops.
Duration:
1 full day
Training Dates
August 2009:
5th, 19th
Course Outline
- Controlling and Managing Resources
- Organize activities into groups according to resource
- Use resource profile/table for "what-if" analysis
- Define hierarchical and driving resources
- Assign resource lag and duration to activities
- Define linear and nonlinear resource distribution
- Use reports to review resource/cost allocation
- Resource Calendars
- Create resource calendars
- Define task, independent and meeting activities
- Assigning driving resources to different activity types
- Resource Leveling
- Handle resource conflicts
- Differentiate between forward and backward leveling
- Perform hierarchical resource leveling
- Analyze the effects of resource leveling of a project
- Review the effects of splitting, stretching and crunching activities
Profession Development and Continuing Education Units: 6.5 PDUs
