What you'll learn

Effective development and management of project schedules is at the heart of successful project leadership. In this course, Scheduling for Predictive Projects, you’ll learn how leaders harnessing predictive, waterfall methodologies approach this critical work. First, you’ll explore principles of managing project schedules, and how work may be progressively elaborated and decomposed into actionable tasks. Then, you’ll discover how sequencing project activities, and understanding their duration, can have a significant impact on project planning. After that, you’ll see how to optimize project work, and how resource management comes into play. Finally, you’ll understand how project schedules are developed and maintained throughout the project life cycle. By the end of this course, you’ll have a firm grasp on the concepts and principles necessary to develop useful schedules for your own initiatives.