Project Management:Intermediate (2nd Edition)

Quality management
Fundamentals of quality management
Quality planning

Quality assurance and control
Quality assurance
Quality control

Risk identification and management
Fundamentals of risk management
Risk management planning
Risk identification

Risk analysis, response, and control
Qualitative analysis
Quantitative analysis
Risk response
Risk monitoring and control

Organizational planning
Project managers

Staff acquisition and team building
Staff acquisition
Team building

Planning and distributing information
Communications planning
Distributing information

Project performance and conclusion
Performance reporting
Concluding a project

After completing this course, students will know how to:

Identify the characteristics and goals of quality management, incorporate quality management directives into projects, address the key issues of quality management, ensure quality during the initial phases of a project, and identify the techniques used in quality planning and the characteristics of a good quality management plan.
Conduct an audit, identify the areas to save the cost associated with quality improvement, develop a quality control system, and identify quality control tools.
Classify project risks, identify risk management goals, design a risk management plan, identify the issues that the plan must address, identify project risks by using various tools, and classify project risks.
Identify the goals and benefits of risk assessment, follow the qualitative risk analysis process, use quantitative analysis techniques, draw a decision tree, follow the risk response process, identify the categories for possible risk response plans, use the methods of monitoring and controlling project risks, and identify the outcomes of monitoring and control.
Identify the characteristics of a good project manager, different types of power, different forms of project organizations, create a project team, and identify the factors and elements of organizational planning.
Acquire staff for a project, negotiate for project staff, identify desirable characteristics of team members, categories of personnel problems, and factors affecting team development, develop a project team, overcome the barriers to effective project team development, apply motivational theories, and identify ways to motivate team members.
Plan for communication during a project and determine the means of communication when distributing information.
Classify performance reports, evaluate the performance of a project by using variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value analysis, and identify the benefits of close-out reporting and ways to close a project.

Prerequisites

Project Management: Basic, Second Edition or equivalent experience