Introduction to Planning

  • ECITB Accredited

This in-person course has been designed by our industry experts and accredited by the ECITB against their Level 3 training standards. This course will take learners through the theory of Planning, explaining why it is important, how Planning should be done on a project and then letting learners practice exactly this. Learners will be required to have Planning software on their laptops to undertake this training.

The course will be delivered by one of our ECITB approved trainers over 5 days. The days will include teaching, in-classroom exercises, discussions, and a final exercise. The outputs of this exercise will be presented to the trainer and feedback on this work will be given.

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    • What is Planning?

    • Why is Planning Important?

    • The difference between Planning and Scheduling

    • Exercise 1 - Complete questions on Planning and discuss with the group

    • What are Breakdown Structures?

    • Different types of Breakdown Structure

    • Responsibility Assignment Matrix

    • Exercise 2 - Develop different types of breakdown structure for a Mock Project

    • Types of Planning 

    • Rolling wave Planning

    • Schedule Hierarchy

    • Exercise 3 - Critical Path Methodology 

    • Types of Schedule 

    • Baseline vs Plan

    • Exercise 4 – Sticky Note Exercise and Interactive Planning based on the Mock Project

    • Creating the Plan

    • Milestones

    • Calendars

    • Activities

    • Logic

    • Estimating activity durations

    • Resource and Cost Loading

    • Gantt Charts

    • Codes and Filters

    • Basis of Schedule

    • Exercise 5 – Build a Schedule based on the Mock Project

Course Contents

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