One of the keys to successful project management is proactively managing the project schedule. This necessarily has to go beyond a CPM diagram and must include task-based activities to drive schedule completion. The primary tool for this is short-interval schedules (or 2-week look aheads) Effective Short-interval planning requires more than telling others what you want them to do over the next two weeks, this program will focus on developing the tools necessary to complete a Short Interval Planning that can proactively improve project performance.

Course Objectives

1. How to develop a Short Interval schedule
2. How to identify constraints hidden on the Short Interval Schedule
3. Understand the concept of Reliable Promises on the schedule

Course Outcomes

1. Use a Short Interval Schedule to manage work
2. Measure the Percent Planned Complete

Course Outline

1. Develop 3-4 Case studies that deal with Scheduling.
2. Facilitate small group discussion of the case studies.
3. Provide a review of the keys to successful scheduling.

Instructor: 

Mark O. Federle, PE, PhD, CPC, F. ASCE

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Marquette University