Developing Project Schedules and Budgets
Learn to lead projects with confidence, develop and meet requirements, and come in on time and within your budget. This third course in the CompTIA Project+ series takes an in-depth look at how projects are scheduled and budgeted.
What you'll learn
An effective PM needs to learn to lead projects with confidence, develop and meet requirements, and come in on time and within budget. In this course, Developing Project Schedules and Budgets, you will take an in-depth look at how projects are scheduled and budgeted. First, you will learn how to sequence tasks and understand dependencies. Next, you will determine critical paths and allocate resources. Finally, you will learn to track expenditures, and harness agile methods. When you are finished with this course, you will have the knowledge necessary to schedule and budget your own projects, and be ready to continue your learning for the CompTIA Project+ exam.
Table of contents
- Course Introduction 3m
- Preparing to Schedule Projects 7m
- Defining Activities 3m
- Sequencing Activities 3m
- Relationships Between Activities 6m
- Activity Dependencies 5m
- Leads and Lags 4m
- Resource Calendars 4m
- Bottom-up Estimating 3m
- Estimation Techniques for Scheduling 10m
- Contingency and Management Reserves 4m
- The Critical Path Method 4m
- Visualizing Project Schedules 4m
- Schedule Compression Techniques 5m
- Module Review 2m
About the author
Casey is an entrepreneurial leader with experience managing projects, analyzing challenges, and designing solutions in healthcare, mobile, digital media, online learning, and more. His Pluralsight courses have helped nearly 1,000,000 professionals gain the skills they need to tackle new challenges and earn globally-recognized certifications, including PMP, CBAP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, CompTIA Project+, ICAgile, and more.