Certified Planning Engineer, CPE™
Certified by: AAPM®The American Academy of Project Management® (AAPM®)
Recognized in over 200+ countries via 1000 training providers, Universities, Colleges and Business Schools.
Certified by: AAPM®The American Academy of Project Management® (AAPM®)
Recognized in over 200+ countries via 1000 training providers, Universities, Colleges and Business Schools.
COURSE OVERVIEW
All holders of this designation must have a solid knowledge in strategic planning and project planning. This is an executive program exploring the world of planning consulting. The program is designed to facilitate a framework for providing management counsel to clients, institutions in the public and private sector. Candidates will incorporate the informational fabric from the core curriculum and become open to examples of comprehension in their technical expertise and experience in global consulting roles to organizations. The modules are created to show candidates the key topics of the profession and to discussed, analyzed and understood. Candidates will also be expected to work break out groups and teams to present consulting services to actual clients and prepare solutions to case studies.
The Purpose of Planning
To build a model that enables participants to predict which activities which activities and resources are critical to the timely completion of the project. Strategies may then be implemented to ensure that activities and resources are managed properly, thus ensuring that the project will be delivered both On Time and Within Budget.
Topic Coverage
The intention of this designation is to recognize the analysts and professionals who meet a demanding requirements of planning and scheduling assets of experience, education, skill, knowledge and ethical qualifications. The CPE™ requirement is to established to recognize today's advanced planning & engineering professionals in the industry and to fairly measure their education, skill, experience and management practices.
What will be covered?
· Understand Input, Tools and Techniques, and Output for each phase
· Comprehend different types of scheduling charts (Gantt, Milestone, Networking)
· Know different techniques of networking (ADM, PDM, and PERT)
· Master critical path and technology to do it.
· Know how to facilitate recovery through techniques such as crashing, fast tracking, managing slack
· Understand how to calculate the Programmed Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT)
· Know how to calculate of the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
· Activity (FS, FF, SS, SF and lag)
· Learn about float is and how to determine.
· Calculate Early Start, Early Finish, Late Start, and Late Finish.
Who should attend?
· Project Managers , Project Planner, Quantity Surveyors, Planning Engineers, Training and Development Managers, Engineers and Executives, Lawyers, CPAs, Engineers, Research and Development Officers, Team Leaders and HR Personnel, Engineer – Project, Managers, Professional Consultants, and Other Contractors.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CERTIFICATES
· Attendance – delegates must attend all sessions of the course (36 contact hours). Delegates who miss more than two hours of the course sessions will not be eligible to sit the course exam
· Successful completion of the course assessment. After successfully passing the exam the Certificates will be prepared by the AAPM and will be sent to the local chapter.
Pre-Requisite
· Diploma holder with 5 years(7500 hours) experience and 36 contact hours of project planning classroom training.
· Degree holder with 2 years(3000 hours) experience and 36 contact hours of project planning classroom training.
Required Background Knowledge
This course does not intended to teach you how to use a Scheduling Tools such as Primavera or MS Project in a project environment. Therefore, to be able to follow this course participants should have the following background knowledge:
· Project Management Environment.
· Experience using application software, such as Microsoft Office, which would have given the participant exposure to Windows menu systems and typical Windows functions such as copy and paste.
· An understanding of how projects are managed, such as the phases and processes that take place over the lifetime of a project
What you will achieve
· The skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique.
· The ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and within budget.
· An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date.
· Able to communicate project “trade-offs” clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and project team members.
· The knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance.
Learning Methodology
· Knowledge Transfer, Skills application in practical exercises, Planning a mock project.
· Group Work, Group Presentation
All holders of this designation must have a solid knowledge in strategic planning and project planning. This is an executive program exploring the world of planning consulting. The program is designed to facilitate a framework for providing management counsel to clients, institutions in the public and private sector. Candidates will incorporate the informational fabric from the core curriculum and become open to examples of comprehension in their technical expertise and experience in global consulting roles to organizations. The modules are created to show candidates the key topics of the profession and to discussed, analyzed and understood. Candidates will also be expected to work break out groups and teams to present consulting services to actual clients and prepare solutions to case studies.
The Purpose of Planning
To build a model that enables participants to predict which activities which activities and resources are critical to the timely completion of the project. Strategies may then be implemented to ensure that activities and resources are managed properly, thus ensuring that the project will be delivered both On Time and Within Budget.
Topic Coverage
The intention of this designation is to recognize the analysts and professionals who meet a demanding requirements of planning and scheduling assets of experience, education, skill, knowledge and ethical qualifications. The CPE™ requirement is to established to recognize today's advanced planning & engineering professionals in the industry and to fairly measure their education, skill, experience and management practices.
What will be covered?
· Understand Input, Tools and Techniques, and Output for each phase
· Comprehend different types of scheduling charts (Gantt, Milestone, Networking)
· Know different techniques of networking (ADM, PDM, and PERT)
· Master critical path and technology to do it.
· Know how to facilitate recovery through techniques such as crashing, fast tracking, managing slack
· Understand how to calculate the Programmed Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT)
· Know how to calculate of the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
· Activity (FS, FF, SS, SF and lag)
· Learn about float is and how to determine.
· Calculate Early Start, Early Finish, Late Start, and Late Finish.
Who should attend?
· Project Managers , Project Planner, Quantity Surveyors, Planning Engineers, Training and Development Managers, Engineers and Executives, Lawyers, CPAs, Engineers, Research and Development Officers, Team Leaders and HR Personnel, Engineer – Project, Managers, Professional Consultants, and Other Contractors.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CERTIFICATES
· Attendance – delegates must attend all sessions of the course (36 contact hours). Delegates who miss more than two hours of the course sessions will not be eligible to sit the course exam
· Successful completion of the course assessment. After successfully passing the exam the Certificates will be prepared by the AAPM and will be sent to the local chapter.
Pre-Requisite
· Diploma holder with 5 years(7500 hours) experience and 36 contact hours of project planning classroom training.
· Degree holder with 2 years(3000 hours) experience and 36 contact hours of project planning classroom training.
Required Background Knowledge
This course does not intended to teach you how to use a Scheduling Tools such as Primavera or MS Project in a project environment. Therefore, to be able to follow this course participants should have the following background knowledge:
· Project Management Environment.
· Experience using application software, such as Microsoft Office, which would have given the participant exposure to Windows menu systems and typical Windows functions such as copy and paste.
· An understanding of how projects are managed, such as the phases and processes that take place over the lifetime of a project
What you will achieve
· The skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique.
· The ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and within budget.
· An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date.
· Able to communicate project “trade-offs” clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and project team members.
· The knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance.
Learning Methodology
· Knowledge Transfer, Skills application in practical exercises, Planning a mock project.
· Group Work, Group Presentation
CPE™ Table of Contents
Module 1 – Introduction
Module 2 – Planning To Plan
Module 3 – Work Breakdown Structures/PBS
Module 4 - Activity Definition
Module 5 - Activity Sequencing
Module 6 - Resourced Schedules
Module 7 - Finalising The Plan
Module 8 - Leading A Project With A Plan
Module 9 - Scope Changes
Duration:
4 Days
Theoretical Exam (4 hours)
Module 1 – Introduction
- What is a Plan and Planning?
- What form does a plan take?
- Fostering “One Team” Philosophy
- Effective Planning Avoids
- Why Projects Fail?
Module 2 – Planning To Plan
- Planning vs. Scheduling
- Planning Success through Leadership
- Understanding the contract
- Project Scope Definition
Module 3 – Work Breakdown Structures/PBS
- Project Scope Definition Techniques
- Work Breakdown Structures
- Schedule and WBS Development
- Risk Analysis and Management
Module 4 - Activity Definition
- Guidelines for estimating activities
- Scope Definition
- Activity Cost Estimates
- Estimate Activity Duration
Module 5 - Activity Sequencing
- Relationship Types
- Developing a Network Diagram
- Forward-Backward Pass
- Total Float and Free Float
- Lead and Lags
- Activity Constraints
Module 6 - Resourced Schedules
- Resource Planning
- Understanding Resources
- Histogram and Tables
- Resource Leveling
Module 7 - Finalising The Plan
- Schedule Completion & Contingency
- Expenditure and Income
- Development of Contract Schedule – Design & Execute or Fully Documented
- Setting the Baseline
Module 8 - Leading A Project With A Plan
- Monitoring Progress and Updating the Plan
- Controlling a Project
- Corrective Action
- What is EVPM?
- Benefits of Using Earned Value
Module 9 - Scope Changes
- Recording and Evaluating Changes
- Preparing for Dispute Resolution
- Hints & Tips for Preparing a Plan
- SMART + KU
- Important Programming Issues
Duration:
4 Days
Theoretical Exam (4 hours)