Project Management - How to Create a Gantt Chart & PERT

Unlock Project Success with Expert Project Scheduling & Gantt Chart Mastery

This comprehensive course draws upon 25 years of real-world project management consulting experience, providing you with practical skills to effectively plan and execute projects. You'll gain a deep understanding of project scheduling methodologies and learn to build powerful Gantt charts for enhanced project control.

Here's what you'll learn:

• Understanding Activities, Tasks & Gantt Charts: Begin with a clear overview of how activities, tasks, and Gantt charts function within the project management landscape and their practical applications.
• Building a Robust Activities List: Discover proven techniques for identifying and documenting all necessary activities. We'll explore valuable resources like templates, work breakdown structures (WBS), past project experience, statements of work (SOW), collaborative sessions, and validation processes involving your team and vendors.
• Activity Duration Estimation Techniques: Master a range of activity duration estimation methods, including both formal and practical approaches. Learn to leverage expert judgment, bottom-up estimates, top-down estimates, historical team input data, and the PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) method.
• Deep Dive into PERT Methodology: Explore the PERT methodology in detail. Understand the applicable formulas and learn how to calculate accurate PERT estimates for individual project tasks.
• Gantt Chart Creation: A Step-by-Step Analysis: The core of this course focuses on the practical creation of a Gantt chart using a real-world project example. Follow along as we build an initial draft and then refine it through collaborative discussions with internal and external teams.
• Project-Level Estimating with Critical Path Analysis: Return to PERT and learn how to generate reliable estimates for the entire project, leveraging critical path analysis to identify key dependencies and potential bottlenecks.

This course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge to confidently manage project schedules, create effective Gantt charts, and ultimately, achieve project success.