PLANNING AND SCHEDULING SKILLS FOR EPC PROJECTS

Training Syllabus:
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING SKILLS FOR EPC PROJECTS

COURSE OVERVIEW
In this course you will focus on managing the typical constrains of many project such as; limit on time, human resources, materials, budget and specifications. Learn to master techniques such as estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, controlling, and analyzing and reporting costs and interpreting the meaning of earn value data. Learn a sound, logical framework for scheduling and controlling project activities and discover ways to work within the identified constraints without curtailing creativity and innovation.

OBJECTIVES
This training course will provide participants with a thorough background in the concepts of Planning and Scheduling Engineering and Construction projects. The course addresses how to identify, monitor, and balance Information crucial for the successful management of projects. It will discuss the development of a baseline performance management plan for the project that will allow the efficient compilation and the timely generation of quantitative performance comparisons. The comparisons highlight significant performance departures (“actual vs. baseline”) and allow for preventive and early remedial and corrective actions. The Practical sessions will provide hands-on experience. Workshops create and track sample project from planning phase till controlling phase (updating).

COURSE METHODOLOGY
The Course is designed to be taught interactively with syndicates and personal exercises, facilitation of group discussions, training videos, and discussions of real life examples.

YOU WILL LEARN TO
a) Build schedules and budgets that transform project constraints into project success
b) Construct work breakdown structures (WBS) and network diagrams and estimate task durations
c) Calculate Critical Path (CPM) and optimise your project plan
d) Allocate costs and chart expected cash flow
e) Assign resources effectively and respond to end-date changes
f) Perform Earned Value Analysis (EVA) to keep the project on track

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The course is targeted at the Oil & Gas industry, Petrochemical, Power plant, Mining & Minerals, Chemical, Construction, EPC Company & Contractor, Fabricator, Vendors & Manufacturer, Creditor, Insurance Company and Government. The profiles of participants include but are not limited to
• Project Manager
• Project Engineering
• Scheduler
• Project Planning Engineer
• Lead of Disciplines Engineer
• Disciplines Engineer
• Finance Project Executive / Manager
• Al executives involved in technical projects planning & cost estimation

TRAINING MATERIAL OUTLINE:
A. Essential Background
1. Overview of teh project management life-cycle
2. The triple constraints
3. Planning tools
4. Project requirements; a review
5. The work breakdown structure; a review
6. Challenges in scheduling & control
B. Best Practices for Project Planning
1. Building the foundation
• Generating your WBS
• Developing a product-oriented focus
• Identifying the appropriate level of detail
2. Diagramming network relationships
• Working with network diagrams
• Applyng CPM and PERT diagrams
• Defining precedence relationships
• Establishing dependencies
• Determining lead and lag times
• Constructing PDM diagrams
C. Integrating the Schedule and Critical Path
1. Computing the Critical Path
• Adding task durations to determine path lengths
• Identifying the critical path
• Recognising near-critical and non-critical paths
• Determining probabilistic critical paths
• Prioritising your management time
2. Creating Gantt charts
• Building Gantt & milestone charts following industry standards
• Representing the relative durations of tasks graphically
3. Fine-tuning your plan
• Calculating activity float
• Planning delivery by applying earliest start times
• Optimising the plan using latest start times
• Rescheduling activities within their float tolerance
D. Realistic Resourcing
1. Schedules that make sense
• Factoring in productivity
• Allocating resources effectively
• Baselining your plan
2. Responding to delivery-date changes
• Fast-tracking the project plan
• Crashing the Critical Path
• Leveraging Goldratt’s Critical Chain
E. Measuring and Improving Performance
1. Monitoring your plan
• Recording actual durations
• Tracking cash flow
• Assessing performance
• Determining and summarising project status
2. Performing EVA
• Calculating schedule and budget efficiency
• Quantifying cost and schedule variance
• Projecting impact on project outcomes
• Mapping EVA to cost accounting
• Advanced EV forecasting tools
• Reconciling and addressing project issues
F. Communicating with Stakeholders
1. Incorporating inbound information into outbound reports
2. Applying the right level of detail
3. Interfacing project information to organisational reporting
G. The Exit Strategy
1. Steps in completing the project
2. Scope verification
3. Contract close-out
4. Administration closure

VENUE : Jakarta (Maxone Hotel Menteng, Balairung Hotel Matraman, Sentral Hotel, Haris Tebet, Gd Muamalat Institute, Ibis Manggadua, Little Amaroossa Residence, Cosmo Amaroossa, Zodiak MT. Haryono, Grand Tjokro)

DURATION : 3 days

TRAINING TIME :

INVESTMENT/PERSON :
1. Rp. 6.950.000/person (full fare) or
2. Rp. 6.750.000/person (early bird, payment 1 week before training) or
3. Rp. 6.500.000/person (if there are 3 persons or more from the same company)

FACILITIES FOR PARTICIPANTS :
1. Training Module
2. Flash Disk contains training material
3. Certificate
4. Stationeries: NoteBook and Ballpoint
5. T-Shirt
6. Backpack
7. Training Photo
8. Training room with full AC facilities and multimedia
9. Lunch and twice coffeebreak everyday of training
10. Qualified instructor