Concerto Advanced Concepts
- Five focusing
steps of TOC
- Project and
resource modeling case studies
- Modeling tips and guidelines
- Different types of project configurations
- Different ways to model resources
- Level of detail (task granularity)
- Implementation
diagnostics
- Troubleshooting
and analysis
- Hands-on
exercises in Concerto Web setup
- System parameters
- Report interpretation
- Users and privileges
- Data maintenance
- Report customization
- Group case
study (output is a complete database of projects, pipelined and
with buffer management)
- Analysis and high level solution design
- Determine project and resource model
- Detail out the management processes
- Build Concerto database to demonstrate the data model as
well as management processes
- Process of
ongoing improvement
- Using buffer diagnostics / reason codes
- Using the 5 focusing steps of TO
Duration:
4 1/2 Days
Intended Attendees: Core Team, Project Planners
Certification: Expert, Implementer
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| Concerto For Executives
- Task Management
Overview
- Project Management
Overview
- Resource
Management Overview
- Portfolio
and Pipeline Status
Duration:
1/2 Day
Intended Attendees: Senior Managers
Certification: N/A
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| Concerto Pipeline Planning
- Advantages
of project staggering
- Concerto
process /role of the Master Scheduler
- Creating
a global resource file in Concerto
- Resource skill pools
- Resource hierarchies
- Calendars
- Pipeline
analysis and planning with real projects
- Planning horizon considerations
- Load to capacity profiles
- Selecting a constraint(s) / drum(s)
- Getting projected date / testing impact
- Accommodating project priorities
- Capacity buffers
- Duration reduction
- Committing
plans to the central database
Duration:
2 Days
Intended Attendees: Project Managers, Master Schedulers, Core Team
Certification: Expert, Implementer
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| Concerto Project Planning
- Creating
project networks and resource sheet
- Network design considerations
- Defining and entering project information
- Defining tasks and dependencies
- Using check lists
- Estimating task durations
- Entering and assigning resources
- Creating calendars
- Mitigating risks
- Hands-on
building /validation of project networks
- Project final objective
- Project intermediate objective
- Project risks, obstacles and constraints
- Building and validating the network
- Critical
Chain analysis and buffering
- Buffer sizing and placement
- Identifying the Critical Chain
- Cycle time analysis and what-if's
- Submitting
projects to Concerto database
- Project templates:
advantages and disadvantages
- Retrieving
and modifying templates
- Project re-planning
- Modeling
tips /guidelines
- Standard and advanced options
- Microsoft Project variables
Duration:
2 Days
Intended Attendees: Project Managers, Project Planners, Core Team
Certification: Expert, Implementer
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