ISO 21502 Lead Project Manager Training — Lesson 2: Scope, Schedule, Cost, Resources, Procurement, and Planning

Learning Objectives

• Interpret the principles, requirements, roles, and dependencies shaping scope, schedule, cost, resources, procurement, and planning.
• Apply the workflow and produce integrated project management plan that another practitioner can review.
• Analyze “the schedule ignores competition for specialist resources” and recommend a proportionate, supported response.

Detailed Topics

• scope planning
• work breakdown
• schedule development
• cost planning
• resource management
• procurement
• dependencies
• integrated baseline
• Competence, communication, governance, documented information, risk, validation, and follow-up considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor demonstrates the scope, schedule, cost, resources, procurement, and planning workflow, identifies the applicable inputs and responsibilities, records checkpoints in integrated project management plan, and contrasts the accepted state with a condition where the schedule ignores competition for specialist resources.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled implementation, audit, assessment, or foundation exercise for Scope, Schedule, Cost, Resources, Procurement, and Planning. Establish scope and criteria, collect or create evidence, examine “the schedule ignores competition for specialist resources,” reach a supported conclusion, and preserve the result in integrated project management plan.

1. Confirm objectives, scope, roles, criteria, stakeholders, and expected outputs.
2. Perform the planned activities while recording assumptions, evidence, and decisions.
3. Test a normal case, an exception, and a follow-up or improvement condition.
4. Document conclusions, owners, due dates, escalation, and verification requirements.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the requirement or principle with the strongest influence on scope, schedule, cost, resources, procurement, and planning.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain their governance, risk, and evidence trade-offs.
• Determine how integrated project management plan should be approved, retained, reviewed, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Separate missing evidence from ineffective practice, and distinguish a documentation issue from a control, process, governance, or competence failure. Use integrated project management plan to trace the earliest divergence. Treat “the schedule ignores competition for specialist resources” as a hypothesis until the response is validated against the applicable requirement and intended outcome.

Validation Checklist

• The scope, criteria, stakeholders, and intended outcome for scope, schedule, cost, resources, procurement, and planning are explicit.
• The integrated project management plan links statements and decisions to objective, reviewable support.
• Responsibilities, competence, communication, risk, legal duties, and change impact were considered where relevant.
• Findings, corrective actions, monitoring, review triggers, and improvement ownership are clear.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Scope, Schedule, Cost, Resources, Procurement, and Planning, explain the reasoning used, and defend the result through integrated project management plan.