PMI Scheduling Professional

    At the PMI College of Scheduling conference, May 4th - May 8th in Chicago, a Scheduling Professional Credential is being introduced. The conference speakers address the issues around project planning and controls, scheduling, programmatic risk, performance measurement baselines, and integrated baseline reviews. Focused mostly on construction, but with aerospace and defense and some comparisons between construction and IT, the conference represents the current opinions of how to create, manage and deploy project scheduling processes.
    My paper is title  Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline

The Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) is a time–phased network of schedule activities describing the work to be performed, the budgeted cost for this work, the organizational elements that produce the deliverables from this work, and the performance measures showing this work is proceeding according to plan. For enterprise projects, the PMB provides the needed insight, cost controls, and business value tracking that assures the successful outcome of the project for both the provider and consumer.

The PMB is the baseline of the cost, schedule, and deliverables for each WP in the plan. The sequence of completed deliverables describes the increasing maturity of the capabilities produced by the project. Constructing the PMB depends on knowledge of the business requirements, skill in developing the WPs that produce the deliverables for these requirements, and discipline in assembling the cost, schedule, and relationships between the WPs. It is this discipline that requires the most focus for the planners and project controls staff. Without this discipline, the development of a credible baseline is simply not possible.

Copies will be available after the conference.

One Response to “PMI Scheduling Professional”

1. Angela on June 10th, 2008 1:04 am

   Has anyone taken the new PMI-SP Exam? How was it? What did you study besides the Practice Standard of Scheduling?

   Thanks,
   Angela

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