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Project planning: scope, schedule and dependencies

For project coordinators, team leads and engineers who plan small projects such as office moves, migrations or equipment roll-outs, and who are comfortable with basic arithmetic. You'll break the agreed scope into activities so the schedule includes all the work, link activities with sound dependencies, calculate the critical path and float by hand, baseline the plan and control changes, and update it with real progress. It adapts the US GAO Schedule Assessment Guide and the UK GovS 002 project delivery standard to small projects. Your company's templates, tools and change approval rules take priority.

Level
Intermediate
Length
About 82 minutes
Contents
5 lessons · final exam
Status
Published · updated 10 Oct 2026
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Skills you'll practise

  • Break agreed scope into deliverables and activities so the schedule captures all the work, including the customer's
  • Link activities with logical dependencies, avoiding missing links, unjustified lags and hard date constraints
  • Calculate the critical path, total float and free float for a small network
  • Baseline the plan and handle changes through change control and agreed tolerances
  • Update the schedule with actual progress and report what changed and why

Course outline

  1. 1.Breaking scope into activities that capture all the workLesson · 15 min
  2. 2.Linking activities with sound dependenciesLesson · 17 min
  3. 3.Calculating the critical path, total float and free floatLesson · 18 min
  4. 4.Baselining the plan and controlling changesLesson · 12 min
  5. 5.Updating the schedule with progress and reporting changesLesson · 12 min
  6. 6.Project planning: scope, schedule and dependencies: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 13 questions
  7. 7.Project planning: scope, schedule and dependencies: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
  8. 8.Final exam10 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

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