This long course teaches how to convert work breakdown into defensible schedules and clear milestone reporting. You will practice constructing compact Gantt/timeline views, linking dependencies, and identifying critical-path activities in small- to medium-sized plans. The course covers distinctions between effort and duration, and using spreadsheets for quick scenario modeling. You will build conditional-format tracking sheets that highlight overdue and at‑risk items, and produce short, stakeholder-ready exports and memos that justify schedule recommendations. The focus is practical: Produce a clean timeline, a formatted tracking sheet, a comparison summary, and a concise stakeholder explanation suitable for steering or release planning contexts.
What you'll learn
Convert a work breakdown structure into a defensible project schedule
Build Gantt charts and timeline views with linked dependencies
Identify critical-path activities in project plans
Distinguish between effort and duration when estimating tasks
Create conditional-format tracking sheets that highlight overdue and at-risk items
Use spreadsheets for quick project scenario modeling
Produce stakeholder-ready schedule exports and justification memos
Course objectives
Produce clean, compact timeline views for small to medium-sized projects
Build formatted tracking sheets with automated risk flagging
Generate comparison summaries for schedule alternatives
Write concise stakeholder explanations suitable for steering and release planning