PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
The PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) course is a specialized professional program designed to develop advanced competence in project scheduling, planning, analysis, and control across complex projects and programs. The PMI-SP certification is administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and validates a professional's ability to develop realistic schedules, manage constraints, analyze impacts, and maintain schedule integrity throughout the project life cycle. This course aligns with the PMI-SP Examination Content Outline, emphasizing schedule strategy, development, maintenance, analysis, monitoring, and communication. It prepares participants to pass the PMI-SP certification exam while strengthening real-world scheduling and control capabilities in predictive, agile, and hybrid environments. Course Objectives By the end of this course, participants will be able to: Apply PMI scheduling standards and best practices Develop accurate and resource-realistic project schedules Apply schedule analysis techniques to identify risks and impacts Control and maintain schedules throughout execution Communicate schedule information to stakeholders effectively Prepare confidently for the PMI-SP certification examination
Course Curriculum
1
- Overview of PMI-SP certification
- Role of scheduling in project success
- Scheduler vs project manager responsibilities
- PMI scheduling standards overview
2
- Scheduling concepts and terminology
- Schedule governance and controls
- Ethics and professional responsibility
- Systems thinking in scheduling
3
- Defining scheduling approach and methodology
- Aligning schedules with project objectives
- Establishing scheduling policies and standards
- Integration with project management plans
4
- Activity definition and sequencing
- Dependency types and constraints
- Estimation techniques
- Schedule network development
5
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Float and total float analysis
- Schedule logic validation
- Identifying schedule risks
6
- Resource loading and leveling
- Schedule feasibility analysis
- Costschedule integration
- Managing resource constraints
7
- Fast tracking and crashing
- Schedule compression strategies
- Trade-off analysis
- Managing schedule uncertainty
8
- Baselines and performance measurement
- Schedule variance and trend analysis
- Forecasting completion dates
- Managing changes and updates
9
- Identifying schedule risks
- Qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis
- Contingency and buffers
- Monte Carlo simulation (overview)
10
- Agile scheduling concepts
- Rolling wave planning
- Release and iteration planning
- Hybrid scheduling approaches
11
- Schedule dashboards and reports
- Communicating with stakeholders
- Executive-level schedule reporting
- Decision-support scheduling
12
- Common scheduling tools
- Tool selection considerations
- Data integrity and schedule quality
- Best practices for tool usage
13
- PMI-SP exam content outline review
- Scenario-based practice questions
- Exam strategies and time management
- Application and eligibility guidance
14
- Instructor-led classroom or virtual training
- Scenario-based scheduling exercises
- Practice questions and exam simulations
15
- Project schedulers and planners
- Project and program managers
- PMO and EPMO professionals
- Cost engineers and planning engineers
- Professionals seeking PMI-SP certification
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- PMI-SP eligibility requirements as defined by PMI
- Practical project scheduling experience is recommended
17
- Knowledge checks and quizzes
- Schedule development and analysis exercises
- Full-length PMI-SP practice examinations
This course includes
- 17+ Activity Modules
- 40 hours + lessons
- Lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
- Available on desktop and mobile
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The facilitator’s wealth of experience was both striking and beneficial. He really helped translate concepts to real life.
The practical session where step by step of the lecture is broken down in visual and practice
I enjoyed the interactivity. It was also very direct, pointing out to us the key things to look for in the bidding, tender and proposal administration process, while also ensuri...
The practical session of the class which helped in giving a live run through of the necessary bidding and tender platform
The atmosphere was very pleasant, as it was an interactive and engaging session, which I personally enjoyed.
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