[2025] Project Scheduling | Project Management Fundamentals

Master Essential Scheduling Techniques: Create Timelines, Manage Resources & Use Critical Path.

[2025] Project Scheduling | Project Management Fundamentals
[2025] Project Scheduling | Project Management Fundamentals

[2025] Project Scheduling | Project Management Fundamentals udemy course free download

Master Essential Scheduling Techniques: Create Timelines, Manage Resources & Use Critical Path.

Are your projects constantly missing deadlines? Struggling to create realistic timelines or manage resource conflicts? Effective Project Scheduling is the backbone of successful project delivery.

Failing to plan and manage your schedule properly leads to delays, cost overruns, frustrated stakeholders, and potential project failure. This course, part of the Project Management Fundamentals series, provides the essential step-by-step process and practical techniques to build realistic schedules and keep your projects on track.

Learn scheduling fundamentals from Luke Angel, an instructor whose extensive credentials (PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, Six Sigma Black Belt, MBA) and over 25+ years of leadership experience provide a deep understanding of planning and execution across complex projects, programs, and portfolios.

(What You'll Learn - Use Udemy's Curriculum Section for Detailed Topics):

  • Understand Scheduling Fundamentals: Grasp core concepts, components, and the overall scheduling process within project management.

  • Define Project Activities: Learn to break down work effectively (using WBS concepts) and define schedule tasks accurately.

  • Sequence Activities Logically: Determine task dependencies (Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, etc.) and correctly apply leads and lags.

  • Estimate Activity Durations & Resources: Utilize practical techniques for creating realistic time estimates and identifying resource needs.

  • Develop the Project Schedule: Learn to build the schedule timeline using techniques like the Critical Path Method (CPM) and visualize it (e.g., Gantt Charts).

  • Plan & Assign Resources Effectively: Allocate people and resources, considering availability (including part-time/remote teams), and perform basic resource leveling.

  • Optimize & Finalize the Schedule: Identify the critical path, understand float/slack, incorporate buffers, and establish the schedule baseline.

  • Monitor & Control the Schedule: Learn how to track progress against the baseline, identify variances, manage changes, and proactively address schedule problems.

Who This Course Is For:

  • Project Managers (New, Aspiring, and Experienced seeking refreshers).

  • Project Coordinators, Project Schedulers, and Planners.

  • Team Leads and Functional Managers involved in project planning.

  • Business Analysts contributing to project scope and timelines.

  • Anyone responsible for creating, managing, or understanding project schedules.

Requirements:

  • A basic understanding of general project management concepts is helpful. No specific scheduling software is required for this course.

Instructor:

Luke Angel (PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, Six Sigma Black Belt, MBA) brings over 25 years of extensive experience and top-tier certifications across project (PMP), program (PgMP), portfolio (PfMP), Agile (CSM), process improvement (Six Sigma), and business strategy (MBA). Learn scheduling fundamentals grounded in deep, practical, multi-disciplinary expertise.

Stop letting poor scheduling derail your projects. Learn to plan, execute, and control timelines effectively. Enroll Today!  

You learn all that plus these amazing topic:  

  1. What You Need to Know Before Starting   

  2. Showcase of The Project Schedule   

  3. Using the Exercise Files   

  4. An Overview of Project Scheduling   

  5. Components of A Project Schedule   

  6. Identifying the Work That Needs to Be Done   

  7. Organizing Work with Summary Tasks   

  8. Adding Milestones   

  9. Estimating Time and Cost   

  10. Putting Tasks into The Right Order   

  11. Delaying or Overlapping Tasks with Lag and Lead Time   

  12. Setting Specific Dates   

  13. Balancing Resource Assignment Variables   

  14. Planning Resources at A High Level   

  15. Procuring Resources   

  16. Assigning Resources That Are Available   

  17. Working with Part Time Workers and Teams   

  18. Working with Remote Teams   

  19. Fine Tuning the Schedule for Resources   

  20. Determining the Critical Path   

  21. Putting the Critical Path to Work   

  22. Lengthening Delaying and Splitting Assignments   

  23. Adjusting the Level of Work Over Time   

  24. Replacing Overallocated Resources   

  25. Adding Buffers to The Schedule   

  26. Adding A Baseline to The Schedule   

  27. Proactively Managing a Schedule   

  28. Finding Schedule Problems   

  29. Reducing Scope