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Develop the Milestone Program – Project Deliverables and Work Breakdown

Early understanding of a project’s scale and structure begins with building a milestone program and work breakdown from first principles. This course explores how to decompose deliverables, estimate costs and durations, and aggregate them into a high-level project schedule and budget. You’ll gain practical insight into bottom-up estimating, identifying parallel activities, and balancing accuracy with efficiency to create a realistic and controlled project roadmap.

Short Course
Intermediate
30 Minutes
7-Day Access
0.5 CPD Hours, Digital Certificate
AUD $9.99
Who is this course for
  • Project Managers who want to refine their early-stage project planning, budgeting, and scheduling skills
  • Assistant Project Managers who need to understand how to build milestone programs from first principles
  • Development Managers who lead scope definition and estimation for complex projects
  • Client-Side Project Leads who review and validate schedules and budgets prepared by consultants
  • Anyone seeking stronger capability in decomposing deliverables and structuring milestone programs
What will I learn
  • What first-principles planning involves and how it shapes accurate cost and time forecasts
  • How to develop a milestone program linked to project deliverables and work breakdowns
  • When to apply bottom-up estimating and how to assess accuracy versus effort
  • Where overlapping and parallel activities influence project timelines
  • Why detailed decomposition improves budgeting, risk identification, and project control
What’s covered in this course
  • Project Deliverables, Work Breakdown Structure and Milestone Program: Learn how to decompose projects into deliverables and activities to build milestone programs and early budgets.
  • Bottom-up Estimating: Understand how to estimate time and cost at the activity level and aggregate them into total project forecasts.
  • Pros and Cons of Bottom-up Estimating: Evaluate the accuracy, effort, and potential biases of bottom-up methods and how to mitigate their limitations.
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