Project Planning Scheduling and Control

Programme Summary

A useful project schedule connects scope, dependencies, resources and progress evidence. This programme develops practical skills for building and controlling realistic project plans. Participants create a schedule from a work breakdown, identify critical activities and analyse a delayed project scenario, then recommend recovery actions that make cost, risk and stakeholder consequences visible before commitments are revised.

Training Objectives

1 Strengthen scope breakdown and planning discipline; 2 Improve activity sequencing and duration estimates; 3 Develop realistic resource and schedule controls; 4 Support evidence based progress and forecast decisions; 5 Build clear recovery and change recommendations.

Learning Outcomes

1 Develop a work breakdown and activity list; 2 Construct a logically linked project schedule; 3 Identify critical path and resource constraints; 4 Analyse progress variance and completion forecasts; 5 Recommend controlled recovery and schedule changes.

Target Audience

Project Planners; Project Engineers; Project Managers; Planning Coordinators; Project Controls Officers.

Target Industries

Construction; Engineering Projects; IT Implementation; Manufacturing Projects; Infrastructure; Facilities Projects.

Course Contents

• Module 1 Planning Foundations: Project objectives scope and constraints; Planning assumptions and stakeholder commitments; Governance roles and baseline authority.
• Module 2 Scope Breakdown: Deliverables work packages and acceptance; Activity identification and scope completeness; Interfaces exclusions and responsibility assignment.
• Module 3 Activity Sequencing: Predecessors successors and dependency types; Leads lags and logical relationships; Avoiding artificial dates and broken logic.
• Module 4 Duration and Effort Estimation: Quantity productivity and resource assumptions; Estimation ranges and uncertainty; Distinguishing effort from elapsed duration.
• Module 5 Critical Path Analysis: Forward and backward pass concepts; Float critical activities and milestones; Interpreting near critical paths and constraints.
• Module 6 Resource Planning: Resource availability calendars and capacity; Conflicts levelling and allocation tradeoffs; Specialist resources and procurement dependencies.
• Module 7 Schedule Baseline: Review validation and approval controls; Milestone commitments and planning contingencies; Baseline records and change discipline.
• Module 8 Progress Measurement: Objective completion evidence and status dates; Actual starts finishes and remaining durations; Data quality and progress reporting integrity.
• Module 9 Forecasting and Performance: Schedule variance and completion outlook; Basic earned value interpretation; Limits of aggregate performance indicators.
• Module 10 Recovery Options: Resequencing capacity and scope alternatives; Fast tracking crashing and added risks; Evaluating cost quality and stakeholder effects.
• Module 11 Change and Reporting: Impact analysis and approval requests; Clear schedule narratives and exception reports; Communicating revised commitments and assumptions.
• Module 12 Planning and Control Workshop: Building a linked project schedule; Updating a delayed project scenario; Presenting a justified recovery recommendation.

Assessment

• 60 single best answer questions, including applied scenarios; one mark per question.
• 90 minute invigilated digital examination with identity verification. Approved accessibility adjustments preserve the assessed competence.
• Supplied reference pack permitted; external internet and AI assistance prohibited.
• Individual applied assessment (45 minutes): Build and update a project schedule, identify critical constraints and prepare a recovery recommendation with change impacts and approval requirements.
• Assessment criteria: Completeness and logic of the schedule; Accuracy of progress and forecast analysis; Quality of recovery tradeoffs and change controls.
• Pass each component separately: 45/60 written marks (75%) and at least 70% on the applied task.
• Individual results and feedback are provided. One reassessment may follow coaching under the published enrolment terms.

Certification

• Successful learners receive a TQCSI Arabia digital Certificate of Successful Completion.
• The certificate records the learner name, exact programme title, teaching hours, completion date and unique verification reference.
• Verified identity, full attendance and separate written and applied passes are required; all mandatory critical criteria must be met.
• Proposed issue target: within 30 calendar days of approved results and settlement of applicable fees.
• Records assessed project planning and control skills; it does not confer external scheduling certification or authority to approve project changes.
• Attendance confirmation may record completed hours for unsuccessful learners; it does not certify successful completion.

Programme Profile

Number of daysNumber of daysNumber of days

333

Total teaching hoursTotal teaching hoursTotal teaching hours

18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.18 hours; breaks, pre course work and formal final assessments excluded.

Delegates allowedDelegates allowedDelegates allowed

Maximum 16 delegates.Maximum 16 delegates.Maximum 16 delegates.

Training prerequisitesTraining prerequisitesTraining prerequisites

Project coordination experience or introductory project management knowledge is required. Basic spreadsheet skills and arithmetic are expected.Project coordination experience or introductory project management knowledge is required. Basic spreadsheet skills and arithmetic are expected.Project coordination experience or introductory project management knowledge is required. Basic spreadsheet skills and arithmetic are expected.

Pre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessmentPre course assignment and assessment

Review a project brief and identify deliverables and dependencies during a 30 minute exercise.Review a project brief and identify deliverables and dependencies during a 30 minute exercise.Review a project brief and identify deliverables and dependencies during a 30 minute exercise.

End of course assessmentEnd of course assessmentEnd of course assessment

60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).60 question written exam (90 minutes) and individual applied task (45 minutes).

Passing criteriaPassing criteriaPassing criteria

75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.75% written and 70% applied, passed separately; full attendance.