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Software Cycle Time Improvement & Software Scheduling
Description
This course will provide students with an overview of cycle time reduction techniques and an overview of schedule estimation with an introduction to schedule management techniques.
Objective:
To show how to reduce and manage schedules using cycle time reduction techniques. Additionally, students will learn how to develop a software schedule and to introduce schedule management techniques.
Prerequisites:
Participants should have project experience and be familiar with the basic techniques of software scheduling and software development.
Outline:
- Why Cycle Time is Important
- Symptoms and Causes of Cycle Time Problems
- Definitions, Terms and Concepts
- Solutions to Cycle Time Problems
- Reducing Variability
- Exercise
- Simplifying the Process
- Exercise
- Reducing Work in Process
- Observations and Caveats
- PERT charts
- Exercise - Developing a PERT Chart
- GANTT charts
- Critical Chain Techniques
- Exercise - Critical Chain analysis
- Slack management Techniques
Exercises:
The exercises apply the principles to actual situations representative of the workplace.
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