Training Courses

Course Description

Become a Microsoft Project pro by learning essential MS Project competencies, including: calendar development, task management, dependency analysis, resource loading, baseline establishment, statusing and much more.

Please note this is approximately a 3 day workshop with 12 modules included.

Control Account Manager (CAM) Training provides participants with the knowledge and practical skills needed to effectively manage a control account within an Earned Value Management (EVM) environment. The training covers key CAM responsibilities, including scope, schedule, and budget management, performance measurement, variance analysis, risk management, and reporting. Participants will learn how to interpret EVM data, identify and communicate performance issues, and maintain control account information to support accurate and timely program management decisions.

Please note this is approximately a 2-3 day workshop.

This course teaches how to trace driving/driven paths, identify root causes of variances, and analyze task dependencies using SSI’s Directional Path, Connecting Path, and Dependency Tracer tools—all designed to help you quickly visualize and resolve critical schedule impacts.

In the course, you will learn how to ensure your project schedule is accurate, compliant, and trustworthy using SSI’s Schedule Health/Audit Tools. This course covers automated checks for DCMA’s 14-Point Assessment, and many other critical scheduling checks- plus how to create custom audits tailored to your organization.

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It's valuable to identify those risks early on in a project to know where to focus on mitigation efforts as well as provide probabilities of when a project will achieve key deliveries or milestones. This course teaches how to run Schedule Risk Assessments and Sensitivity Analyses using Monte Carlo simulations, evaluate best- and worst-case task durations, and analyze results to focus mitigation efforts on the tasks that matter most.

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In this course, we will show you how to generate industry standard performance analysis, metrics and indices using SSI Tools including:

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• “Earned Schedule” Reports

• Baseline vs. Actual & Projected Performance Rate

• Baseline Execution Index (BEI) and Current Execution Index (CEI)

• Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and Cost (in time) Performance Index (CPI) – where cost is a measure of days or time rather than doll

The SSI Tool Box is a collection of tools that will improve your efficiency and generally improve your quality of life as a project scheduler. These tools are all simple to understand, but extremely powerful. In this course you will learn how to add a common Predecessor or Successor OR a common Prefix or Suffix to a group of tasks. You will learn how to quickly and easily navigate between a common list in Excel and MS Project. You'll be able to instantly make all of your task names proper case with just the click of a button.

Microsoft Project has a limitation that only one person can edit a project schedule at a time. So if you are part of a team of schedulers working on one large project file, you are forced to wait until the “live” file becomes available or work in an offline copy and then recreate your changes back into the live file at a later time. With the SSI Change Tracking Tool, you can record the changes you make to a MS Project schedule, just like you would record a Macro, and simply import those changes when the “live” schedule is available. This can be used to effectively allow multiple people to access the project schedule at the same time! In this course you'll learn all of the setup options for both recording and importing.

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In this course, you’ll learn how to use SSI’s Schedule Sanitizer tool to instantly remove unnecessary or sensitive/proprietary information from your project schedule before sending to an outside organization. The SSI Schedule Sanitizer makes the process of removing this data quick and easy. The tool allows users to save and distribute sanitization configurations which can be easily applied at any time.

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Many data elements in an Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) like Deltek Cobra and MPM can be derived from the MS Project schedule. However, the Project file cannot be uploaded directly to these systems. With SSI’s Bridge Tools you can create .csv files containing these data elements and know you have exact traceability between your project schedule and the EVMS.

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