Successful Project Management - Project Planning Skills

Create an accurate budget for any level of work from individual project tasks to entire portfolios
Estimate tasks using activity-based costing, and aggregate to project budgets
Aggregate individual costs to form a project budget
Quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible baseline
Manage the programme budget, allocating funds to projects with the best rate of return
Leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections

Develop a work plan that successfully addresses the needs of a business analyst (BA)
Define the goals and deliverables of the initiative and develop the work charter
Organise, structure and schedule work using breakdown structures, network diagrams and bar charts
Adopt common and effective techniques to estimate task work and duration that reflect initiative uncertainty
Identify, analyse and manage risks that affect scheduling
Keep the work on track and manage key controls while meeting stakeholder expectations

Leverage Microsoft Project 2010 to plan and manage project schedules and resources
Build and optimise your project plan through best practice principles
Create, modify and organise calendars in order to control the project schedule
Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliveries
Assign resources to tasks and troubleshoot overallocation conflicts
Structure dashboards and reports to effectively share project data

Plan, build and manage project schedules and budgets using Microsoft Project 2007
Build a project plan, enter tasks and develop calendars
Establish task constraints and deadlines, and create task dependencies
Forecast and allocate human and material resources
Track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliverables
Create dynamic reports and custom views to communicate project information