Project Management:Essentials

Define the project
Project participants
Project objectives and planning

Activities and dependencies
Project activities
Sequence activities
Analyze activities
Estimate activities
Sequence dependencies

Project scheduling
Develop the project schedule
Techniques for schedule development
The CPM and PERT

Project change control
Define project change control

Financial issues
Estimate costs

Project performance
Measure project performance
Report project performance

After completing this course, students will know how to:

Identify the participants in the project, the influence of stakeholders on a project, the objectives of the project, benefits of planning for a project, and project constraints.
Identify project activities, create a work breakdown structure (WBS), recognize types of project activities, create a Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart, analyze activities by creating an activity analysis form, estimate the time duration and cost of project activities, and identify the categories of dependencies and dependency relationships.
Develop the project schedule by using CPM, PERT, project network diagrams, arrow charting, and Gantt charts, identify the benefits of CPM and PERT, the critical path, and the methods of duration compression.
Define project change control and identify the steps in accommodating the changes in a project.
Identify the importance of historical information, the pitfalls to avoid when completing project cost estimates, the importance of organization?s financial policy, the different types of cost, and the best use of available funds.
Measure project performance by using various analysis methods, control project cost, identify performance, status, progress, close-out, and final project reports.

Prerequisites

None