Project Schedule Management
By Casey Ayers
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Description
Updated to align with the 6th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide, this course, Project Schedule Management is the fifth course in Pluralsight’s series preparing you for the newest version of the PMP® exam. This course explores many of the processes found in the Project Schedule Management knowledge area. First, you'll learn how schedule management is planned. Next, you'll look at how activities are defined and sequenced. Finally, you'll explore how activity durations are estimated, paving the way for the creation of project schedules. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge necessary to plot out your project's activities, and understand how their relationship with one another influences how project work progresses.
About the author
Casey has experience leading projects, analyzing challenges, and designing solutions in many fields, including healthcare, digital media, mobile app development and education. He's always in pursuit of new knowledge and loves to share what he learns along the way with others. To inquire about speaking engagements or consulting opportunities, and to learn more about his other ventures, visit http://CaseyAyers.com
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Course Overview
[Autogenerated] everyone. My name is Casey airs and welcome to my course Project Schedule Management. This course is the fifth and our newly updated Siri's helping you prepare for the latest version of the PMP exam based on the sixth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, better known as the pin but guide. By completing this course and others in our PMP prep Siri's, you'll not only be better prepared to ace the certification exam, but critically will also completely fulfill the mandatory training requirement that must be met before taking the exam. The PMP, or project management Professional certification is consistently listed, is one of the top five most valuable certifications for I T professionals and is also broadly applicable to a wide range of industries. Given how much new value can be created from successful projects, businesses in all sectors in of all sciences need capable project managers. Today, a PMP builds the skills needed to succeed and opens new doors for those with the certification. Some of the major topics will cover in this course include planning, schedule management, defining and sequencing activities and estimating activity durations, helping pave the way for the development and control of project schedules. By the end of this course, you'll have developed the skills necessary to move onto the next course in this series, where you'll learn how to apply these skills to developing in controlling project schedules. This course and others in the Siri's cannot only help you learn more about project management and prepare for the PNP exam, but also serves a great refresher for established project managers and as an opportunity to earn continuing education credit. I hope you'll join me on this journey to prepare for the PMP exam and learn more about project scheduled management here, a plural site.