[NP-PPS-F] Project Planning & Scheduling

Offered by School of Engineering

Certifiable Courses

About Course
Course Structure
Financial Matters

About Course

Course Objectives

Participants will acquire knowledge and skills in project scheduling & monitoring to coordinate projects, meeting goals and targets at work.

Course Description

Topics covered are:

Basic Features and Functions:
- Enter and schedule tasks
- Working with calendars
- Gantt Chart and network diagram
- Critical Path Method and Analysis
- Assign resources and resources levelling
- Set baseline
- Monitoring of project (tracking)
- Normal and Crash Time Relationship (Project Crashing)
- Time-Cost Trade-Off and Optimization
- Define custom table
- Printing of views and tables and producing status reports
- Creating, customising graphical report and visual report
- Timeline
- Practical Exercises

Advanced Features and Functions:
- Fine tuning the project plan and information
- Setting up a recurring task, task constraints, shifting tasks, elapse time
- Customise field with formulas
- Define codes for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Assign material resources
- Tracking progress against the project plan
- Controlling the Project Cost using BCWS, BCWP and ACWP
- Exporting time scaled cost data into Microsoft Excel and plot graph to show the Scurve
- Consolidating several projects together and create master plan
- Creating dependencies (linking) between projects
- Sharing resources among projects and resources pool
- Sorting, grouping and filtering project information
- Advanced customisation of Microsoft Project
- Using the Organizer
- Using Microsoft Project with other programs
- Import/export project information from/to other applications
- Copying project information for presentation as a GIF file

Course Structure

TPG course reference No.

TGS-2018508103

Project Planning & Scheduling
Project Planning & Scheduling (NP-PPS-F)

Financial matters

Course fees payable (incl. GST & excl. supplementary fee)

Description Project Planning & Scheduling Total course fee
Full Course fee $603.86 $603.86
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs for Singapore Citizen $70.36 $70.36
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs - SPR & LTVP+ $70.36 $70.36
SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy for Singapore Citizen aged 40 and above $70.36 $70.36
SkillsFuture Baseline Funding for Singapore Citizen Aged Below 40 $181.16 $181.16
SkillsFuture Baseline Funding for SPR/LTVP+ $181.16 $181.16

GST rate

The course fees payable above are inclusive of 9% GST rate.

Payment option

The payment needs to be made upon the application is submitted.

Allowed payment by

The course fee allows to be paid by:
SkillsFuture Credits (SFC);
Credit card (e-payment);
Debit card (e-payment);
PayNow (e-payment).

Refund and withdrawal policy

  • Please note that a 100% refund will be available if the withdrawal request is submitted more than or equal to 14 days before the course start date.
  • Please note that a 50% refund will be available if the withdrawal request is submitted less than 14 days before the course start date.
  • Please note that no refund will be available if the withdrawal request is submitted on or after the course start date.

Remarks

SkillsFuture Credit (SFC) can only be used to cover:
(i) Course fees payable;
(ii) Assessment fees which are part of the course;
(iii) Certification fees which are part of the course; and
(iv) GST imposed on components supported for SFC use.

Penalty charges apply if you:
(i) are absent/ no show;
(ii) withdraw from a course within 14 days of the course start date;
(iii) fail the assessment

SFC cannot be used to offset penalty charges imposed by Ngee Ann Polytechnic.