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How project controls works in practice

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Project controls roles, and how to move up

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Introduction to Project Controls

What project controls is, and why projects need it

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Breakdown Structures

Build a PBS, WBS, OBS, CBS & more

Scope Descriptions

Statements of Work (SoW) and more

MDAL

Track every deliverable to acceptance

Data Dictionaries

Describe the meaning of every field, code & measure

Introduction to Project Controls

The building blocks of project controls

Control Account Management

Where scope, budget, schedule and responsibility meet

Earned Vale Management (EVM)

How to measure the progress and cost against the plan, and forecast the finish

Building a Data Dictionary

Set the definitions before the data starts arguing with itself

Document a Basis of Schedule

Record the logic, assumptions and sources behind your schedule

Document a Basis of Estimate

Show how every number was built, so it survives challenge

Performance Measurement Baseline

Lock the plan you will be measured against, and control changes to it

The Variance Analysis Report

Describe variances to the baseline (PMB), what is means, and corrective actions

Artificial Intelligence

Assurance

Basis of Estimate

Basis of Schedule

Breakdown Structures

Control Account

Earned Value Management (EVM)

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Estimating

Forecasting

Governance

Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

Monte Carlo

Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS)

Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM RACI)

Rules of Credit

Scheduling

Statement of Work (SoW)

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Introduction to Project Controls

25-Step Planning and Scheduling (to PMB)

6-Step Monitoring and Control (post-PMB)

Project Controls for Business Winning

Project Controls for Change and Transformation

Project Controls for Products and Services

Project Controls for Major Projects

PBS: Systems Thinking and Interfaces

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Data Dictionary

Statement of Work (SoW)

Basis of Estimate

Basis of Schedule

Delivery Strategy

Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Quantified Risk and Opportunity Register (QROR)

Baseline Trend and Change Log (BTCL)

Variance Analysis Report (VAR)

Interface Dependency Matrix

Breakdown Structures

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Control Account Management

Earned Value Management

Assurance

Governance

Project Controls System Description (PCSD)

Introduction to Schedules and Integration

PBS: Systems Thinking and Interfaces

Recommended Resources

The 25-Step Planning & Scheduling Framework

thePCA’s own method for guiding a project from first plan to a locked Performance Measurement Baseline

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The 6-Steps of Monitoring and Control

How to measure and run the project to the PMB once it is set: and analyse, forecast, decide, act and report for better project decisions.

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The Artefact Library

Eleven core documents that work together as one system, each one feeding the baseline.

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