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Mastering Project Scheduling: A Guide for Non-Project Professionals

Charles H. Paul
Date & Time: All Days
Duration: 90 Minutes
Category: Pharmaceutical
Type: Recorded Webinar

Description

Join us for an insightful webinar focused on crafting a project schedule that ensures the achievement of project objectives. We'll guide participants through every scheduling process step, providing clear language to outline essential tasks necessary for constructing a robust project schedule. From establishing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to project execution, monitoring, and performance control, we cover it all.

Learn about scheduling compression and optimization techniques and witness their application through real-world examples, enhancing your understanding of the scheduling process.

This webinar is part of a series dedicated to elucidating critical aspects of project management. Specifically, we'll delve into project scheduling, its pivotal role in project success, and its execution strategies.

Often, the mantle of project management falls on individuals least prepared for the task. While competent and well-meaning, these accidental project managers frequently use Excel spreadsheets as project schedules—a risky approach!

Why should you attend?

Projects, though singular, are highly intricate endeavors. A detailed and well-structured schedule is paramount to completing projects within stipulated timeframes and budgets. Scheduling enables management to identify, optimize, and judiciously apply tradeoffs between time, cost, and quality/scope—the elements of the triple constraint.

Continuous project performance evaluation against these baselines facilitates effective project control. However, this iterative process is futile without a solid schedule, potentially jeopardizing project performance. Avoid uncomfortable discussions with stakeholders and senior management regarding deviations from plans or project failures by proactively planning and scheduling.

This webinar serves as the initial step toward achieving scheduling proficiency.

What You'll Learn:

  • Crafting a comprehensive schedule plan for the project
  • Identifying key stakeholders with authority over the schedule
  • Establishing start and end dates for project activities and tasks
  • Determining task dependencies and sequencing activities chronologically
  • Estimating resource requirements and availability
  • Assessing activity durations
  • Constructing the project schedule
  • Monitoring and controlling project progress throughout the project lifecycle

Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your project management skills and master the art of project scheduling. Register now to take the first step toward project success!

Who should attend?

Any member of a cross-functional project team with the potential opportunity to lead that project.

  • Engineers
  • Marketing Associates
  • Product Managers 
  • Program Managers
  • Contract Managers
  • Project Managers
  • Research & Development Associates, Managers, and Directors
  • Design Engineers
  • Manufacturing Managers

Price Details

Speaker Profile : Charles H. Paul

Charles H. Paul is the President of C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. – a regulatory, training, and technical documentation consulting firm. Charles has been a regulatory consultant to the life sciences industry for over 20 years and has published numerous white papers on the subject. The firm works with both domestic and international clients designing solutions for complex human performance and compliance-related problems.