Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning Course in Amsterdam

Building Reliable Schedules, Stronger Plans, and Better Project Control

Effective project delivery depends on the ability to translate objectives into realistic plans, structured schedules, and clear control mechanisms. Strong planning helps project teams anticipate constraints, sequence activities logically, allocate resources efficiently, and respond quickly when progress begins to deviate from the baseline.

The Essential Skills for Project Scheduling and Planning course provides participants with practical techniques for developing project plans, creating schedules, analysing dependencies, identifying the critical path, managing uncertainty, and monitoring performance.

Across five days, participants work with Work Breakdown Structures, Gantt Charts, network diagrams, PERT, Earned Value Management, resource prioritisation, Line of Balance, schedule acceleration, and recovery techniques to improve project predictability and execution.

You'll Learn How To

• Explain the role of planning and scheduling throughout the project life cycle.
• Develop structured project plans around time, cost, and scope requirements.
• Create effective Work Breakdown Structures.
• Build Gantt Charts and project network diagrams.
• Sequence activities using ADM and PDM approaches.
• Calculate float and slack.
• Apply forward and backward pass calculations.
• Identify and analyse the critical path.
• Use leads and lags to refine project sequencing.
• Apply PERT to schedule uncertainty.
• Prioritise activities when resources are constrained.
• Evaluate time–cost trade-offs.
• Monitor project performance using Earned Value Management.
• Track progress using project control and reporting techniques.
• Apply fast-tracking, crashing, and lean techniques to recover delayed schedules.
• Strengthen continuous improvement and resilience in project planning.