Description

205T Planning and Scheduling Unit 3 as well as other project management construction online courses. Planning and scheduling is a primary technical skill all successful construction supervisors and project managers need to effectively engage and utilize their teams, resources, and manage the job. 

This project management construction online course will teach how to use: 

• The bar chart 
• Precedence diagramming 
• The arrow diagram 
• The critical path 
• Using networks 
• Using the project schedule 
• Maintaining the project schedule 
• Applying the project schedule

By the end of the 205T Planning and Scheduling STP Unit 3 project management construction online course you will:

• Become familiar with the process of project planning and the efficiencies derived from planning
• Be able to define schedule activities and assign reasonable durations to the activities
• Know how to sequence the activities for logical project flow.
• Be able to prepare a short procurement schedule
• Be able to prepare a bar chart schedule and use it properly
• Learn about schedule float and understand how float can be used to delay or lengthen activities and to smooth manpower requirements
• Be familiar computerized scheduling and understand both its limitations and advantages
• Be able to apply constraints, sorts and filters to a computer generated schedule
• Understand what resources are and how they can be coordinated with the schedule
• Know how to use the schedule as a resource for crew and manpower assignments
• Be able to apply methods for monitoring, comparing and updating the project schedule
• Understand how to use the short-term schedule as a communication tool
• Learn about schedule acceleration methods and how to apply them
• Learn how the schedule is used as documentation for changes and disputes