Nodes and Links - Project Insights and Managing Risk
Learn how to use this innovative tool to analyse and validate your schedule, to add and model uncertainty and risk and to work with updated plans to compare project progress.
Course Overview
Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)
This course looks at the powerful features of Nodes and Links. It looks at analysing and validating your schedule, adding uncertainty and risk and working with updated plans to compare project progress.
Hands on practice will be gained throughout the course to ensure you can confidentially put your new skills into practice back in the workplace.
This course is designed for new users of Nodes and links, no previous experience is required. You should however be familiar with risk management processes and terminology.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Import and validate plans
- Analyse and review plans
- Add and model uncertainty
- Add and model risk
- Load updated schedules
- Re run analysis on updated schedules
Content
Validating your plan
- Importing a baseline plan
- Running a health check
- Analysing the results
Reviewing the plan
- Analysing critical paths
- Reviewing activities
- Reviewing resources
Adding Uncertainty
- Setting uncertainty templates
- Distributions
- Adding uncertainty
- Using Inherit
- Using AI
- Reviewing activity distributions
Modelling Uncertainty
- Running the Analysis
- Reviewing the results
- Reviewing activity results
- Risk Drivers
- Filtering for activities
Setting up the Risk Register
- Setting Risk Templates
- Adding Risks to the Risk Register
- Independent vs Dependant Events
- Setting Probability and Impact
Modelling Uncertainty and Risk
- Mapping risks to activities
- Running the Analysis
- Reviewing the results
Updated Plans
- Importing a new plan version
- Comparing plans
- Tracking progress
- Trend analysis
Analysing Updated Plans
- Using updated plans
- Synchronising uncertainly and risk
- Rerunning analysis
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