Workshop name: AACE Planning & Scheduling (PSP) exam overview workshop
Engineering projects are notorious for optimism bias and schedule overruns. In order to overcome these problems, it is vital to have effective planning and scheduling processes in place and competent professionals to implement these processes. Project planning and scheduling includes developing, monitoring, updating, forecasting and analysing integrated project schedules. By using proven processes for integrating project scope, risk, cost and schedule project teams can achieve improved project communication and planning. This workshop will introduce you to project planning and scheduling and explain the simple processes needed in order implement effective planning and scheduling for your projects.
PSP certification will distinguish you as a professional that has the skills and knowledge that is benchmarked with international project planning and scheduling practices.

This workshop is mapped to the following standards or guides:

• AACEi’s Total Cost Management Framework
• AACE’s Planning and Scheduling Certification Study Guide
• AACE's Skills & Knowledge of Cost Engineering, 6th Edition
• CPM in Construction Management, 8th Edition
• Construction Planning and Scheduling Manual, 2nd Edition

 

 

 

• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP)

 

This workshop is expected to offer a brief overview of the following topics to prepare for PSP certification.

• AACE International Total Cost Management Framework
• Project Planning and Scheduling Overview
• Project Planning Processes
• Project Scheduling Processes
• Project Planning and Scheduling Communication and Reports.
• Becoming a Certified Planning and Scheduling Professional

 

 

 

• Understand the asset lifecycle and the project lifecycle
• Understand the relationship between project planning and scheduling
• Appreciate the interests and requirements of Project stakeholders
• Appreciate the key processes of Project Planning
• Appreciate the key processes of Project Scheduling
• Understand methods to communicate project plans and schedules
• Appreciate the process for becoming a Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP)

 

This workshop will provide participants a practical introduction to Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis and is suited to those who want to be introduced to it, or have recently started their journey into Schedule Risk Analysis. Participants will ideally have a basic to mid-level understanding of scheduling and risk management concepts.

The workshop will be hands-on and practical, participants will be required to bring their own PC’s and will be provided with links to trial a leading SRA software tool used on their own PC’s. The workshop will also provide worked example data to demonstrate the SRA process from inputs, and analysis through to production outputs.

Participants will understand how schedule risk analysis can be applied on projects to analyse, report and manage time-related risks.

The workshop will cover:

• Introduction and Overview of Schedule Risk Analysis
• Understanding SRA inputs – Schedule, Risks and Impacts
• Understanding and Interpreting SRA Outputs
• Scenarios and Advanced Analysis Topics
• Wrap Up + Q&A

The workshop will be hands-on and practical. Registered participants will be provided with an extended trial of a leading SRA software tool used on their own PC’s. The workshop will also provide sample data to demonstrate the SRA process from inputs, and analysis through to production outputs.

Course name: Next Generation PMOs - Combining People and Machines
This workshop puts you on the other side of the table – you are here to build AI and automation software for Hs2. What are you going to do?

The point of this session is to enable you to ask the right questions back in your own business. You will learn how to:

• • Identify valuable problems
• • Translate problems into software requirements
• • Build the AI and automation components
• • Deploy quickly and iteratively
• • Evidence return on investment

To support the above you will be provided with case studies of how others have successfully and unsuccessfully done it in the past.  

 

Attendees will learn the fundamentals of AI and automation product management in project controls.

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Have you wondered about how earned value management (EVM) should be applied in support of your project, regardless of whether it's a contractual requirement? This presentation provides an analysis of the applicability of EVM in support of different types of projects, to include lessons learned and recommended practices. In addition to clarifying inherent nuances related to the terminology, this presentation will also examine lessons learned from the author's own experience, and more importantly will offer several recommended practices that can be leveraged by project stakeholders on both sides of the aisle.

 

• Understand the definition of earned value (EV), earned value management (EVM), and earned value management systems (EVMS).
• Understand how the above terms have historically been applied in support of construction projects.
• Understand the differences in application of these terms between government and commercial projects.
• Understand recommended practices relating to the use of EVM in support of different types of projects.

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