# Schedule, Finance & Resources Management Course (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/schedule-cost-resource-management-course-self-paced>

## Overview

Learn to build and control a project's schedule, finances, and resources using proven, in-demand tools: the critical path method, three-point estimating, and earned value management (EVM). Fully updated for the PMBOK® Guide, Eighth Edition (2025), this hands-on, exercise-driven course shows you how to turn project scope into accurate duration, cost, and resource estimates; build and analyze a network diagram and critical path; forecast schedule and cost performance with EVM; lead a project team; and manage change within project constraints. The course centers on three of the 8th Edition's seven performance domains — Schedule, Finance, and Resources — and how they interconnect across the project lifecycle.

## What you'll learn

- Summarize the structure of the PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition: principles, performance domains, focus areas, and processes.
- Describe how the Schedule, Finance, and Resources performance domains relate to one another across the project lifecycle.
- Turn project scope into an activity list and a precedence network diagram.
- Develop duration, cost, and resource estimates using analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point techniques.
- Calculate the critical path (forward and backward pass) and finalize a project baseline.
- Apply earned value management (EVM) to forecast schedule and cost performance.
- Compress schedules (fast-tracking, crashing) and manage change through integrated change control.
- Recognize how these predictive techniques map to adaptive and hybrid approaches.

## Prerequisites

Completion of [Project Management Essentials](https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/project-management-essentials) or a current PMI certification is recommended. Participants should have some project experience, organizational familiarity, and general business knowledge.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: A Refresher: The PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition Framework

- Summarize the six principles, seven performance domains, five focus areas, and forty processes of the PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition, including tailoring.
- Locate the Schedule, Finance, and Resources performance domains within the overall PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition framework.
- Describe how the Schedule, Finance, and Resources performance domains relate to one another across the project lifecycle.

#### Module 2: Creating the Baseline: Inputs to Scheduling, Finance, and Resources

- Describe the relationship between project scope and schedule, finance, and resource planning.
- Create project scope outputs for the work breakdown structure (WBS) to inform schedule, finance, and resource planning.
- Use the Scope Statement and WBS as inputs for subsequent planning activities.

#### Module 3: Scheduling, Part 1: Determining and Sequencing Activities

- Link project scope outputs to project schedule inputs.
- Create an activity network diagram to sequence project activities.
- Understand activity sequencing terms and concepts.

#### Module 4: Schedule, Finance, and Resources Estimating Techniques

- Define common project estimating techniques, such as analogous and parametric estimating.
- Calculate project activity duration, resource, and finance estimates using the most appropriate techniques.
- Recognize the benefits and limitations of each estimating technique.

#### Module 5: Scheduling, Part 2: Determining the Critical Path and Finalizing the Project Schedule

- Learn how to calculate the critical path using forward and backward pass techniques.
- Finalize the project schedule and understand the concept of "float" or "slack" in scheduling.
- Use network diagrams to identify critical activities that impact the project timeline.

#### Module 6: Working with the Project Team

- Identify communication barriers and methods to overcome them.
- Understand the stages of team development and how to manage teams at each stage.
- Define the five competencies of emotional intelligence and their application in project management.

#### Module 7: Schedule, Finance, and Resources Control

- Learn methods for maintaining integrated project control through project reviews and change control boards.
- Understand earned value management (EVM) and calculate project performance based on finance and schedule data.
- Identify methods to modify project schedules and forecast project outcomes using earned value management.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1699