Project Scheduling & Milestones
A schedule answers the question every sponsor asks: "when?". A good one also answers "what decides that date?" and "what happens if this slips?".
Part of the Project Operations Role Pathway, Module 4. Explore the full pathway
Included in NIBS PlusCertificate of Completion on your Skills Passport
- Duration
- About 5 hours
- Mode
- Online, at your own pace, or at an e-Learning Cafe
- Credential
- Certificate of Completion
- Assessment
- Practice activities and self-checks; not assessed for competence
- Access
- Included in NIBS Plus
What is this programme?
A schedule answers the question every sponsor asks: "when?". A good one also answers "what decides that date?" and "what happens if this slips?". Project administrators build and update schedules every week: adding tasks, linking them, checking dates against the calendar, and noticing slippage before it becomes a crisis. This module teaches the logic behind a schedule so that the software does what you mean, and the courage to say when a date will not hold.
It is Module 4 of the Project Operations Role Pathway, taught on its own: the same lessons, practice and quizzes, around the same fictional workplace.
Who is it for?
Anyone with NIBS Plus. No entry requirements. Take it to sharpen one skill, or to try the pathway before you commit to it.
What will I actually do?
You work through short lessons, practise, check yourself with a quiz and apply it:
- From scope to activities and durations
- Dependencies and the critical path
- Milestones and the baseline
- Tracking, slippage and recovery
- Watch: building the schedule in OpenProject
- Try: schedule a small project by hand
- Apply: track a week and forecast
How long does it take?
About 5 hours, at your own pace. Nothing is timed and nothing is due.
How will I study?
Online through NIBS Campus, or at a NIBS e-Learning Cafe.
What evidence will I produce?
Your practice and your Apply activity stay with you. Nothing here is assessed for competence: that happens on a Workplace Lab task in the full pathway.
Every submission moves through the same states:
- Assigned
- In progress
- Submitted
- Under review
- Competent
- Resubmission required
- Closed
What credential do I receive?
A Certificate of Completion on your Skills Passport when every lesson is complete, verifiable by anyone you share it with. It records the learning, not competence: no skill is marked Verified and no competency is recorded from this course.
Where can this lead?
The full Project Operations Role Pathway takes this module further, with a Workplace Lab task assessed by a NIBS assessor, and leads to the NIBS Professional Certificate when every requirement is met.
Skill topics this teaches:
What does it cost?
Included in NIBS Plus, monthly or prepaid. Not sold on its own at this stage.
How do I start?
- Join NIBS Campus freeOne short form.
- Add NIBS PlusMonthly, or prepaid for 3, 6 or 12 months.
- Start the courseIt is in your campus as soon as your access is active.