PSP Exam Preparation: Planning, Scheduling

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

This course is designed for learners who want to build a strong foundation in project planning, scheduling, cost awareness, and project controls while preparing for the PSP exam or improving their professional scheduling knowledge. The course explains the principles behind effective planning and scheduling in a practical, visual, and easy-to-follow way.

Many learners approach planning and scheduling by memorizing definitions, but real project controls work requires more than memorization. A scheduler must understand the project scope, contract requirements, stakeholders, constraints, work breakdown structure, resources, sequence of work, schedule logic, progress updates, cost impacts, and communication requirements. This course connects these topics so learners can understand how a credible schedule is developed, maintained, analyzed, and explained.

Throughout the course, you will learn how planning comes before scheduling and why a weak plan can create an unreliable schedule. You will study how project scope is organized through WBS, OBS, CBS, and code of accounts. You will also learn how CPM schedules are built using activities, relationships, durations, calendars, milestones, constraints, and baseline logic. These concepts are explained through visual logic maps and project-based examples so learners can connect PSP exam topics to real project practice.

The course also introduces important project controls topics such as contract requirements, stakeholder impacts, change management, schedule updates, progress measurement, variance analysis, critical path movement, float, delay awareness, Time Impact Analysis concepts, schedule narratives, and professional communication. These topics are especially important for PSP exam candidates because the exam often tests professional judgment, not only technical definitions.

This course is useful for project schedulers, planners, project controls professionals, cost engineers, project managers, construction professionals, engineers, and anyone who wants to better understand how schedule, cost, scope, and performance management work together. It is also suitable for learners who are beginning their PSP exam preparation and want a clear, structured learning path.

By the end of the course, you will have a stronger understanding of planning and scheduling principles, how to think through PSP-style questions, how to organize schedule information, and how to communicate schedule issues professionally. The goal is to help you build confidence, improve technical judgment, and apply project controls concepts in both exam situations and real project environments.