Project Controls Open Standard · Module 2 of 6 · M2
Planning & Scheduling
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Planning & Schedule Development
By the end of this section, the learner should be able to turn authorised scope and an agreed delivery strategy into a credible, structured and maintainable project schedule that explains what work must be performed, in what broad sequence, over what durations and calendars, through which interfaces and milestones, and with enough detail to support later logic analysis, resource assessment, progress updating, forecasting and control.
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Logic, Critical Path & Float
The learner should be able to construct and analyse a logically linked schedule, choose relationships, recognise missing or inappropriate logic, distinguish logic from constraints, identify critical and near-critical paths, understand total and free float, recognise negative or unusually high float, understand how progress changes the path, and use the analysis to support decisions. The goal is to understand the schedule as a model, not simply as software output.
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Resources, Productivity & Schedule Optimisation
By the end of this section, the learner should be able to test whether a logically valid schedule is actually deliverable with the people, skills, equipment, facilities and other constrained resources available to the project. They should be able to distinguish resource demand from capacity, derive realistic activity durations from quantities and productivity, identify overloads and bottlenecks, understand the difference between smoothing and levelling, develop practical optimisation options, and explain the time, cost and risk consequences of those options.
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Progress Updating & Schedule Control
By the end of this section, the learner should be able to take an approved schedule and turn it into a trustworthy current control model at each reporting cycle. They should be able to establish a clear data date, collect and validate actual progress, record actual starts and finishes, assess physical accomplishment, estimate realistic remaining durations, deal transparently with out-of-sequence work, recalculate the network, explain movement from both the baseline and the previous forecast, identify changes in the critical and near-critical paths, and convert the updated schedule into actions and management decisions.
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Schedule Forecasting & Analysis
By the end of this section, the learner should be able to take a credible current schedule and use it to forecast likely future outcomes, explain what is driving those outcomes, test alternative scenarios, assess the effect of uncertainty and management interventions, and recommend action before important dates are lost. They should be able to distinguish an approved baseline, a management target, the current forecast and a what-if scenario; identify the assumptions that make a forecast credible; recognise when apparently precise dates are not supported by the evidence; and communicate both the expected outcome and the conditions that could change it.
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- M6.4 — Assurance & Control Reviews17 Oct 2026
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- M6.3 — Baseline Change & Configuration Control17 Oct 2026
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- M6.2 — Change Control17 Oct 2026
1. Practical outcomeThe learner should be able to recognise a potential change, record and define it, assess integrated consequences, identify the correct authority, support an approve/reject/defer decision and track implementation to verified closure. They should distinguish a changed requirement…
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- M5.4 — Integrated Forecasting & Predictive Analysis17 Oct 2026
1. Practical outcomeThe learner should be able to produce one coherent view of expected project outcomes by reconciling schedule, cost, physical accomplishment, acceptance, commercial exposure and uncertainty. They should identify inconsistent assumptions, distinguish target from forecast, build…
- M5.3 — Integrated Cost & Schedule Performance17 Oct 2026
1. Practical outcomeThe learner should be able to connect authorised scope, time-phased budget, evidence of accomplishment and incurred cost at a common cut-off. They should calculate and interpret basic Earned Value Management measures, reconcile them to source records, distinguish cost efficiency…