Structure the Project
Build a practical WBS and translate it into scheduled activities.
Corporate Project Management Training
Practical Project Planning & Scheduling for Teams
Turn project workplans into practical schedules your team can actually use to manage delivery.
Build the capability to manage dependencies, critical activities, resources, baselines, progress and delays using sound project-management practice and Microsoft Project.
- 3-Day Applied Programme
- Up to 15 Participants
- Real Project Practice
- 30-Day Implementation Clinic
The Delivery Gap
Is your workplan actually helping you manage delivery?
A project plan should do more than list activities and dates.
A usable schedule should help a project team understand
- What must happen before something else can start
- Which activities are critical
- What happens when an activity is delayed
- Whether resources are overloaded
- What has changed against the original plan
- Where management attention is required
ALPM's programme helps teams move from static workplans to active delivery control.
- 1Workplan
- 2Dependencies
- 3Resources
- 4Baseline
- 5Tracking
- 6Management action
Learning Outcomes
What your team will learn to do
Build Dependencies
Sequence activities using realistic relationships, milestones and calendars.
Understand the Critical Path
Identify the activities that have the greatest effect on completion dates.
Plan Resources
Assign resources, identify overloads and improve schedule realism.
Establish a Baseline
Create an agreed reference point against which performance can be measured.
Track Real Progress
Update actual work and identify schedule slippage and variance.
Analyse Delays
Understand how changes and delays affect downstream activities.
Report for Management
Use project views and reports to support practical management decisions.
Programme Structure
A practical 3-day learning journey
Day 1
Build the Plan
- Project setup
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Activities
- Durations
- Milestones
- Calendars
- Dependencies
Outcome: A structured project schedule.
Day 2
Make the Schedule Realistic
- Critical path
- Constraints
- Resources
- Workload
- Schedule optimisation
- Baseline
Outcome: A realistic, approved schedule that can be managed.
Day 3
Manage Delivery
- Progress updates
- Schedule slippage
- Variance
- Corrective action
- Project views
- Reporting
- Using the schedule in management meetings
Outcome: A schedule that becomes a living delivery-management tool.
Learning Approach
Not a software demonstration
Participants do not spend three days watching an instructor click through menus.
- Explain
- Demonstrate
- Practise
- Apply
- Review
Participants work through one realistic project from beginning to end and repeatedly apply what they learn. The objective is to develop both project management thinking and practical tool capability.
Project management thinking
Practical tool capability
Who It Is For
Designed for project-based organisations
Suitable for project managers, programme managers, project coordinators, M&E professionals, operations teams, technical leads and other staff involved in planning and delivering projects.
NGOs
Health Organisations
Development Organisations
Research Institutions
Professional Bodies
Corporate Project Teams
Corporate Programme
What the corporate programme includes
- Three facilitated training days
- Programme customisation to the organisation's context
- Up to 15 participants
- Realistic project case study
- Participant practice files
- Project-planning and scheduling templates
- Practical exercises and challenges
- Microsoft Project application
- Microsoft Planner context where appropriate
- 90-minute implementation clinic within 30 days after training
Training should survive the training room.
The follow-up implementation clinic gives participants an opportunity to discuss what happened when they tried applying the learning to their actual projects.
Our Approach
Why ALPM Consulting?
Assess → Customise → Train → Apply → Support
Assess
Understand the organisation's current planning environment and capability gaps.
Customise
Shape examples, activities and emphasis around the team and its project environment.
Train
Build the required concepts and practical tool capability.
Apply
Use realistic project scenarios and, where appropriate, client examples.
Support
Help the team transfer learning into day-to-day project delivery.
Read more about our corporate capability development, project delivery consulting and the team behind ALPM Consulting.
Practical Capability
Practical expertise. Applied to real delivery.
ALPM combines project-management knowledge, practical scheduling tools and real organisational delivery experience to help teams translate project-management concepts into working practices.
FAQ
Questions organisations ask
Ready to strengthen how your team plans and manages projects?
Tell us about your projects, your team and the planning challenges you are experiencing. We will recommend the most appropriate delivery approach.
Team Consultation
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