Integrated Project Controls Programme

Project Scope, Schedule, and Cost Management

Build reliable scope, schedule and cost baselines—and use them together to control delivery and forecast outcomes.

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Course overview

Integrate the three foundations of credible project planning and control.

Project performance depends on more than producing separate scope, schedule and cost documents. These elements must be built from one consistent delivery logic and controlled as a connected baseline.

Project Scope, Schedule, and Cost Management develops the practical capability to define deliverables, structure work, sequence activities, estimate resources and cost, establish baselines, monitor performance and forecast likely outcomes.

Participants work through an integrated project case and learn how scope decisions affect schedule, cost, risk, resources, change and stakeholder commitments.

Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Translate project objectives and requirements into clear deliverables, boundaries and acceptance criteria.
  • Develop a work breakdown structure and supporting scope dictionary that establish a reliable basis for planning and accountability.
  • Define activities, milestones, dependencies and constraints using appropriate scheduling logic.
  • Estimate effort, duration, resources and cost using transparent assumptions and suitable estimating methods.
  • Develop an integrated schedule and cost baseline aligned with the approved scope.
  • Identify critical-path, resource and interface constraints that may affect delivery.
  • Establish practical methods for measuring progress and maintaining credible status information.
  • Assess variances, trends and forecasts across scope, schedule and cost.
  • Evaluate proposed changes and understand their integrated effects before approval.
  • Communicate project-control evidence clearly and recommend proportionate corrective or preventive action.

Who should attend

Designed for professionals responsible for planning, controlling or assuring project delivery.

  • Project and programme managers.
  • Project planners and schedulers.
  • Cost engineers, estimators and cost-control professionals.
  • Project-controls and PMO professionals.
  • Work-package managers and discipline leads.
  • Engineers, commercial professionals and assurance staff supporting projects.

Prerequisites

Accessible, practical and professionally relevant.

  • Some exposure to project planning or delivery is recommended.
  • No specialist scheduling or cost software experience is required.
  • Participants should be comfortable working with basic numerical information.
  • Corporate cohorts may use an anonymised organisational project as the integrated case.

Course structure

Five integrated modules from scope definition to baseline control, forecasting and change.

The programme follows the logic of building and controlling one integrated project baseline rather than teaching scope, schedule and cost as separate disciplines.

1

Module 1

Scope definition, requirements and deliverables

  • Project objectives, requirements and success criteria.
  • Scope boundaries, assumptions and constraints.
  • Deliverables and acceptance criteria.
  • Requirements traceability and scope validation.
  • Preventing ambiguity, omission and uncontrolled expansion.
2

Module 2

Work breakdown and planning architecture

  • Purpose and design of the work breakdown structure.
  • Work packages, control accounts and planning packages.
  • Scope dictionary and responsibility alignment.
  • Organisational and cost breakdown structures.
  • Creating a consistent coding and control architecture.
3

Module 3

Schedule development and analysis

  • Activities, milestones and dependencies.
  • Network logic, leads, lags and constraints.
  • Duration and resource estimating.
  • Critical path, float and schedule risk.
  • Schedule quality and baseline approval.
4

Module 4

Cost estimating, budgeting and contingency

  • Estimate purpose, classification and basis.
  • Analogous, parametric and bottom-up estimating.
  • Resource rates, indirect cost and escalation.
  • Contingency, reserves and uncertainty.
  • Time-phased budgets and cost baseline development.
5

Module 5

Integrated control, forecasting and change

  • Progress measurement and status discipline.
  • Variance, trend and forecast analysis.
  • Integrated effects of scope, schedule and cost changes.
  • Corrective action, re-planning and baseline control.
  • Project-controls reporting and final case simulation.

Learning experience

Apply ideas—not simply remember terminology.

Participants learn by constructing, testing and controlling an integrated baseline through a realistic project case.

Define

Scope-definition workshop

Participants convert objectives and requirements into deliverables, boundaries and acceptance criteria.

Structure

Work-breakdown laboratory

Teams build a practical work breakdown and control architecture linked to responsibility and cost.

Plan

Schedule-development exercise

Participants create activity logic, identify the critical path and test schedule quality.

Estimate

Cost and contingency workshop

Teams develop estimates, document assumptions and distinguish contingency from management reserve.

Control

Integrated performance simulation

Participants interpret progress, variance and forecast evidence and recommend action.

Apply

Workplace controls plan

Each participant identifies how to strengthen scope, schedule and cost integration in their own environment.

Course completion

Demonstrate participation, application and professional judgement.

  • Participate actively in planning, estimating and control exercises.
  • Complete the principal scope, schedule and cost outputs from the integrated case.
  • Contribute to the final baseline-control and forecasting simulation.
  • Prepare a practical project-controls improvement plan for workplace application.

Participant outputs

Typical course outputs include:

  • Scope statement and deliverable structure.
  • Work breakdown structure and scope dictionary.
  • Activity network and milestone schedule.
  • Critical-path and constraint analysis.
  • Estimate basis and time-phased cost baseline.
  • Integrated change-impact assessment.
  • Performance report and forecast recommendation.

Delivery options

Choose the format that fits your people and business requirements.

Instructor-led

Live Classroom

Face-to-face delivery with planning workshops, team exercises, case analysis and immediate feedback.

Instructor-led

Live Virtual Classroom

Interactive online delivery using collaborative planning, estimating and control exercises.

Flexible

Blended Learning

A structured combination of preparation, live workshops, practical assignments and follow-up application.

Organisation-specific

Corporate and In-Company

Tailored delivery aligned with the organisation’s lifecycle, planning standards, coding structures and control environment.

Frequently asked questions

Course information and participation.

Is this course mainly for project-controls specialists?

No. It is equally relevant to project managers and work-package leaders who must understand how scope, schedule and cost operate as one management system.

Does the course require scheduling software?

No. The course teaches planning and control logic independently of a particular software package. Corporate delivery may incorporate an organisation’s preferred tools.

Does the programme cover earned value management?

The course introduces integrated performance and forecasting logic. A deeper earned-value treatment may be included where appropriate for the cohort or organisation.

Can the course be tailored to capital projects?

Yes. Examples, estimating practices, coding structures, progress measurement and control thresholds can be adapted to capital-project environments.

Does completion provide a professional certification?

The programme develops practical planning and project-controls capability and may provide an INDENTRA completion record where applicable. It is not presented as a third-party professional certification unless separately stated.

Take the next step

Build baselines that support decisions—not merely reporting.

Discuss public delivery, a project-controls cohort or a tailored programme aligned with your organisation’s planning and control environment.

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INDENTRA may adapt sequencing, exercises and examples to suit the delivery format and participant profile while preserving the stated learning outcomes.