Project Management
Project Scheduling and Time Management
This course develops practical capability in activity sequencing, duration estimating, critical path, schedule baselines, progress updates, and recovery planning. Participants work through structured project scenarios, templates, reviews, and decision points so they can improve planning discipline, stakeholder alignment, delivery control, and project outcomes in real organizational environments.
Objectives
- Apply schedule management plan and activity definition using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
- Apply dependencies, leads, lags, milestones, and network diagrams using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
- Apply duration estimation, calendars, resources, and constraints using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
- Apply critical path, float analysis, and schedule optimization using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
- Apply baseline approval, progress measurement, and variance analysis using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
- Apply schedule compression, recovery plans, and delay communication using practical project tools, controls, and workplace scenarios.
Target audience
- Project managers, project coordinators, PMO analysts, team leaders, engineers, consultants, and professionals responsible for planning, delivery, governance, or project support.
- Functional managers and specialists who contribute to cross-functional projects and need stronger project control, stakeholder alignment, and delivery discipline.
Program outline
A clear structure for the learning journey.
Program outline
Outline points are grouped in one designed block instead of being treated as separate module cards.
Module 1: Schedule management plan and activity definition
Building activity logic with dependencies, milestones, calendars, and constraints
Testing the critical path, float, resource pressure, and schedule quality
Updating progress, explaining variance, and preparing recovery options
Module 2: Dependencies, leads, lags, milestones, and network diagrams
Applied workshop on dependencies, leads, lags, milestones, and network diagrams using a realistic project scheduling and time management scenario
Required deliverables, inputs, owners, review cadence, and decision records
Failure patterns, warning signs, escalation choices, and corrective actions
Module 3: Duration estimation, calendars, resources, and constraints
Defining roles, RACI, capacity assumptions, calendars, and productivity constraints
Resolving resource conflicts, bottlenecks, team agreements, and performance issues
Tracking workload, capability gaps, morale risks, and corrective coaching actions
Module 4: Critical path, float analysis, and schedule optimization
Building activity logic with dependencies, milestones, calendars, and constraints
Testing the critical path, float, resource pressure, and schedule quality
Updating progress, explaining variance, and preparing recovery options
Module 5: Baseline approval, progress measurement, and variance analysis
Applied workshop on baseline approval, progress measurement, and variance analysis using a realistic project scheduling and time management scenario
Required deliverables, inputs, owners, review cadence, and decision records
Failure patterns, warning signs, escalation choices, and corrective actions
Module 6: Schedule compression, recovery plans, and delay communication
Building activity logic with dependencies, milestones, calendars, and constraints
Testing the critical path, float, resource pressure, and schedule quality
Updating progress, explaining variance, and preparing recovery options
Materials provided
- â—‹ Slides used during the sessions
- â—‹ Project templates, checklists, and worksheets
- â—‹ Scenario exercises and case studies
- â—‹ Sample registers, plans, dashboards, and reporting formats
- â—‹ 4D Certificate of Completion issued by 4D Training & Consultancy
- â—‹ Post-course support for technical queries and guidance
Training Options
Programs can be delivered in-house, online, or in a blended format depending on your team's schedule, location, and learning objectives. When an external certificate or exam is included, certification rules and fees remain under the relevant awarding body's policies, while 4D provides the training and preparation support.
Why choose 4D
At 4D Training & Consultancy, project management training is built around practical delivery problems rather than generic theory. Our trainers use realistic scenarios, planning workshops, risk reviews, stakeholder exercises, and project documentation templates so participants leave with methods they can apply immediately.
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