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Concerto Critical Chain Project Planning I: Creating a New Project Network & Basic Analysis

  • Create a Concerto Critical Chain project network with buffers
  • Basic analysis and approach to reduce cycle time

Course No.: CC2
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Project Managers, Project Planners
Upcoming Session: April 10, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Task Management

  • Implementing the 4 aspects of Task Management using Concerto
    1. Assignment of resources based on priorities
    2. Task Preparation
    3. Progress Update
    4. Issue Resolution
  • Evaluate Resource’s Performance
  • Concerto Web Walk-Through

Course No.: ES1
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Task Managers, Project Managers, Resource Managers, Executives
Upcoming Session: April 24, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Using New Concerto Web Features

Learn how to use the new features in the latest Concerto release (5.0.1358). This includes:

  • Escalated Tasks Report
    1. Enables managers and executives to manage exceptions and resolve issues efficiently
  • Network Editing over Web:
    1. Enables changes to project network over the Web without using MS Project
  • Checklist items synchronization
    1. Checklist items created inside Concerto Web and their status are now exported during check-out to MS-Project file.

Course No.: M1
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Executives, Master Schedulers, Project Managers, Resource Managers
Upcoming Session: TBA



Concerto Critical Chain Project Planning II: Re-planning Projects In Progress

Learn how to do re-plan using Concerto Critical Chain Client

  • What changes are considered as re-planning?
  • What are the re-planning functions to use under different scenarios?
  • How to analyze a re-planned network
  • Pitfalls to avoid

Course No.: CC3
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Project Managers, Project Planners
Upcoming Session: May 1, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Concerto Pipeline I: Understanding the Basics

This web-based workshop covers the key concepts of how to stagger projects using Concerto Pipeline.

  • Understand how to perform load and capacity analysis to identify Constraint Resource(s)
  • Learn how project start dates and due dates are calculated by Concerto
  • Learn how parameters such as Stretch, Capacity buffer, and Bucket Size affect due date calculations

Course No.: CP1
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Master Schedulers, Project Managers
Upcoming Session: May 15, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Using Flow Trend

  • How to use flow trend to monitor task WIP and completions
  • Importance of monitoring task WIP: spot potential problems before they occur
  • Importance of monitoring task completions

Course No.: ES2
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Executives, Resource Managers, Master Schedulers
Upcoming Session: May 29, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Concerto Pipeline II: Using Establish Pipeline Schedule to Stagger New Projects

This is a follow-up workshop to Concerto Pipeline I, which covers advanced topics such as duration what-ifs across the project portfolio, priority what-ifs on in-progress projects, and schedule as early as possible option. You will be taken through the detailed steps and options in Pipeline Planning.

Course No.: CP2
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Master Schedulers, Project Managers
Upcoming Session: June 5, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)



Using Execution Views

Execution Views provides actionable Portfolio, Project and Task Level reports to Executives and Senior Managers enabling them to take high-impact decisions quickly.

  • Learn how to use Portfolio Status, Project Control and Trend Chart to review health of your project portfolio and focus on problem areas.
  • Learn how to use Chain View to perform buffer recovery
  • Learn how to use Escalated Tasks Report to manage exceptions and resolve issues on stuck tasks

Course No.: ES3
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Executives, Master Schedulers, Project Managers
Upcoming Session: June 19, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)


Resource Modeling

Effective project planning can minimize execution obstacles. Resource modeling and management go hand-in-hand with project planning. When resources are modeled and managed effectively, project execution will have the flexibility to deal with uncertainties and minimize multi-tasking and poor synchronization. This workshop will teach you the basic concept of resource modeling.

Course No.: CW3
Duration: 1 Hour
Intended Attendees: Project Managers, Project Planners, Master Schedulers, Resource Managers, Executives
Upcoming Session: June 26, 2008 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST)