Course Description

This course adds to your fundamental knowledge of project management by teaching you the details of the major contemporary tools and techniques that are used in planning, monitoring, and controlling projects. The appropriate technologies are used to give the participant a “best practices” approach to the effective and efficient management of projects. Your learning is reinforced through a number of practical exercises using case studies and real projects.

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, students shall be able to:

• Develop the skills to use a practical project planning technique.
• Determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and in budget.
• Understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date.
• Communicate project “trade-offs” clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and project team members.
• Record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance.
• Develop the skills to “frame” your questions when analyzing the project plan to spot hidden variances.

Course Content

·         Project and Portfolio Management

• Project Initiation and Planning

·         Risk assessment and mitigation

• Organizing and Conducting the Joint Project Planning Session
• Estimating Activity Duration, Resource Requirements and Cost
• Constructing and Analyzing the Project Network
• Constructing and Analyzing the Project Network (cont.)
• Resource Leveling/Scheduling
• Monitor and Control Progress

Required Textbook

• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge(PMBOK®) Fifth Edition 2013 Project Management Institute, Four Campus Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA 19073-3299 USA
  
•  Kerzner,H. (2001). Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling (11th Edition)
  

Other Useful Book

• Verzuh E. (2011). The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management (4th Ed.)