Time Management Strategies for

Project Management
About This Course
Thank you for joining this short online courseTime Management
Strategies for Project Management course from Purdue University.

You will need approximately five to six hours to complete all learning activities
in this course. At the end of this course, you will be able to :

List the time management processes

Identify components of the schedule management plan
Define an activity
Describe the transition from scope to schedule
Explain the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Distinguish the difference between a mandatory and discretionary
dependency
Define lags and leads
Calculate the critical path for a project using the critical path method,
including forward and backward pass
Calculate float for each activity
Explain why schedule compression may be necessary
Distinguish the difference between crashing and fast tracking and the
project implications of each
Describe the difference between a schedule and target completion date
Identify the difference between the critical chain method and the critical
path method
Define project and feeding buffers
Define resource leveling and resource smoothing
Determine when these two techniques are necessary
Explain the point when a schedule is base lined

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 Explain project milestones
Create a Gantt chart with project data
List the things that a Gantt chart can display
List the benefits and challenges in using scheduling software

This course covers one of the ten knowledge areas in Project Management
Institute (PMI), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge,
(PMBOK Guide) - Fifth Edition. All learning materials you need to complete
this short course are included in the online environment. The PMBOK Guide,
Fifth Edition serves as an optional secondary reading resource.

Learning Activities in This Course

There are two weeks in this course and each weekly learning content contains
six to eight steps, which are lecture videos, discussions, workbooks, self-tests,
and a final exam. Each week should take you no more than three hours to
complete.

You will find the option to post comments on most steps. We encourage you to
participate in these discussions. The more you put in, the more you will benefit
from this course.

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