Project Planning and Control Excellence

Project Planning and Control Excellence is an advanced, practical program designed to strengthen participants’ ability to develop robust project plans, establish realistic baselines, monitor performance, forecast outcomes, and implement timely corrective actions throughout the project lifecycle.

The program integrates the key dimensions of scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, change, and performance measurement into a unified project-control framework. Participants will learn how to translate project objectives into structured work packages and schedules, establish control baselines, analyze deviations, evaluate schedule and cost performance, and produce reliable forecasts for management decision-making.

A strong emphasis is placed on practical project-control techniques including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), network scheduling, Critical Path Method (CPM), resource planning, Earned Value Management (EVM), variance analysis, forecasting, change control, trend analysis, dashboards, and recovery planning.

By the end of the program, participants will be equipped to move beyond simply reporting project status toward proactively identifying emerging problems, assessing their impact, and recommending effective corrective and recovery actions.

• Develop integrated and realistic project plans aligned with strategic and contractual objectives.
• Build effective Work Breakdown Structures and translate scope into measurable work packages.
• Develop logic-driven project schedules using dependencies, milestones, constraints, and critical-path analysis.
• Establish and maintain approved scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
• Apply effective resource planning, allocation, and optimization techniques.
• Monitor actual project performance against approved baselines.
• Apply Earned Value Management to measure schedule and cost performance.
• Analyze schedule and cost variances and determine their underlying causes.
• Develop reliable forecasts for project completion dates and final costs.
• Establish effective project reporting and management dashboards.
• Manage project risks, changes, trends, and emerging issues within an integrated control framework.
• Develop corrective actions, recovery plans, and management recommendations for underperforming projects.