PMI-SP Certification

Course Description:

The PMI Scheduling Professional certification is a globally valued certification that supports candidates to address organizational needs. The PMI-SP certification focuses on building the scheduling skills necessary to achieve project objectives. The Scheduling Professional certification validates the candidate’s distinguished skills in project management with efficient scheduling of various project components. The certification demonstrates a strong understanding of the concepts key to keeping a project on track, such as schedule strategy, schedule planning and development and stakeholder communications management.

Current PMP certification holders with advanced project scheduling experience or those looking to specialize in project scheduling would benefit from obtaining the PMI-SP designation. The certification and training course empowers project managers with proficiency in developing and maintaining project schedules while explaining basic level competence in overall project management areas. On successful completion of the training you will possess the knowledge and skills needed to successfully plan, manage and maintain project schedules.

Why PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)?

The PMI-SP training and certification course hones your project scheduling skills in:

• Scheduling the project plan and development
• Scheduling project strategies
• Scheduling effective project monitoring and control
• Practical understanding of stakeholder communications management
• Scheduling closeouts

What you will learn:

• Implementing policies and procedures
• Project schedule development and documentation
• Devising scheduling components
• Organizational breakdown structure (OBS), Work breakdown structure (WBS), and Resource breakdown structure (RBS)
• Identification of alternative project execution processes
• Scope statements including deadlines and deliverables
• Performing schedule analysis and audit
• Activity Network Diagram (AND), Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
• Performing cost and schedule reserve analysis
• Schedule performance evaluation against original baselines
• Communication management, visibility maintenance, and stakeholders relationships management

What you will get:

• High quality training from certified trainer
• 16 PDUs
• Course completion certificate
• Soft copy of courseware
• Real-world examples
• End-to-end support via email, chat and phone

Course Outline:

• Introduction
• Scheduling Concepts and Standards
• Schedule Planning and Development
• Scheduling Techniques
• Scheduling Resource Management
• Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
• Schedule Closeout
• Stakeholder Communication Management