PROJECT SCHEDULE & COST CONTROL

Project Cost & Schedule Control - two-day workshop, 21-22 August 2008
Only a profitable organization can remain "on the scene", and employ qualified people in rewarding positions. A company can only re-invest the anticipated profit margins if it employs a PROJECT CONTROL system that provides employees a framework to effectively control expenditures on contracted work.
The key secret: 'CONTROL' is a PRO-ACTIVE activity. It requires that an influence be exercised that positively affects the outcome. This means that the person seeking to control a project must take ACTION based on a well-defined plan, as opposed to REACTING to events after they have happened. Control is not about fixing problems as much as about preventing problems and causing desired outcomes.
This two-day course provides an insight into the project control environment for small projects within a multiple project environment; presents the necessity of planning and how to establish the baseline plan for both cost and schedule; teaches fundamentals of cost and schedule monitoring, and provides for project controls including status, progress, updates, and measuring project performance.
This course examines the entire Project Control process starting with transitioning of the client requirement into the schedule baseline; the cost estimate into a cost budget baseline to measure performance; establishing a change control system; and project completion forecasting. Examples and case studies for each of the topics are presented and worked through.