Target audience:

Employees of departments and offices of capital construction, investment planning and budgeting, employees of UKS divisions.

When forming a group of students, it is recommended that representatives of all main divisions involved in the planning and monitoring processes of capital construction projects be present: PEO, PTO, MTO service, planning group.

Course objective:

To provide an idea of ​​the best practices for organizing planning processes and to practice, using practical examples, the practice of using calendar-network schedules in the planning and monitoring processes of construction production in the work of enterprises and divisions involved in capital construction projects as Investors, Customers, General Contractors and Contractors; to practice, using practical examples, the principles of analyzing calendar-network schedule data.
If desired, real examples of the customer can be considered during the discussion.

Training can be conducted on MS Project version 2013 and higher (both Professional and Standard)

COURSE PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
Overview of the training program, managing expectations from the course
Definition of the concept of “project” in the international project management standards PMBOK Guide, ISO 21500 and GOST
Overview of calendar-network planning processes.
Goals and objectives of using MS Project in managing construction projects
Life cycle of investment construction projects.
Definition of project management.
Interrelation between the main parameters of construction projects: content, duration, cost and quality.
Knowledge areas and processes of construction project management.
Responsibility allocation matrix (RACI).

SETTING UP THE MICROSOFT PROJECT INTERFACE
OPERATION PLANNING

Levels of detail of calendar-network models of construction projects
Definition of the sequence of operations.

LABOR RESOURCES AND MATERIALS PLANNING

Practical aspects of labor resources planning for construction projects
Creating and setting up resources
Resource types in MS Project, practical application of various resource types, creating resources, setting up resource properties
Assigning resources to tasks
Formation and analysis of a project resource plan

WORKING WITH PHYSICAL VOLUMES OF CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION WORKS IN MS PROJECT

Working with source data.
Entering data on physical volumes of construction and installation works in MS Project
Formation of plans for the development of physical volumes and operational (monthly-daily) plans in MS Project
Tracking actual physical volumes in MS Project
Enterprise project structure (EPS). Work breakdown structure (WBS).
Enterprise project structure (EPS). Work breakdown structure (WBS).
Organizational project structure (OBS).
Planning projects in construction. Planning levels. Strategic plan. Milestone plan. Detailed plans. Principles and processes of planning, support, control and regulation of construction projects.
Basic concepts of schedule-network planning. Rolling wave method. Managing work schedules on a network model using the critical path method (CPM). The concept of a critical path and work time reserves.
Principles of developing, entering actual data and analyzing schedule-network schedules of different levels.
Classification of resources in construction. Managing construction project resources. Analysis of the resource feasibility of the project. Elimination of resource conflicts.
Target plan (directive schedule): creation, purpose, use, types.
Setting up the interface and Gantt chart. Layouts.
Sorting and Filtering

MONITORING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Approaches to monitoring (templates of reports on the progress of work, description of the functions and roles of project participants during monitoring, methods for calculating the % of work completed and forecasting deadlines based on the current status) by type of work
Updating the schedule-network model for the current date.
Setting up project progress reports based on the calendar-network model.