Benefits
Your project's success depends on controlling both your project schedule and your project costs. Learn to control your projects while controlling the costs when you learn to manage both cost and resource allocation issues throughout the entire project life cycle.
What This Course Will Do For You
• Utilize specialized techniques help you track work progress and costs, compare actual progress and costs to baseline plans, and respond to variances.
• Incorporate best practices project management policies and procedures
• Track master schedules, milestones, and checkpoints
• Develop budgets and cost control reports
• Variance and earned value analysis
• Learn to precisely monitor on-going project performance
• Recognize and identify the cause of deviations and recommend solutions
• Apply earned value to negotiations and conflict resolutions
PMP Preparation/Project Management Body of Knowledge Areas
• Project Cost Management
• Project Risk Management
A text is required. 2.5 Units/2.1 CEUs.
Approved for 21 PDUs.
Course Code | B2L06I
N. Misra | 6 Week Course
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Tuition | $345
Meet the Faculty
Nidhi Misra, MS has extensive experience in Project Management in the IS/IT arena, is a former member of the OP3 Project team, and now leads her own project consulting firm.
Registration Deadline
If you register at least one week prior to the start date, your registration fee will be $15.00. If you register within a week of the term start date, your registration fee will be $25.00.
What you can expect…
We will be using interactive feedback, examples from your work environment and practice as our main tools for learning in this course. This course is a 'workshop' that depends on your participation, your constructive comments, and suggestions.
You will select a Model Project from your work environment and use it to learn the concepts of earned value analysis. Each week you will learn a concept and apply it to your Model Project which you will submit as the assignment.You will learn the how to create a work breakdown structure, perform make/buy analysis, create plans, schedules, estimates and set baseline, monitor performance and create status reports, all using the concepts of Earned Value. In addition, you will be introduced to the concepts of Critical Chain and Program Management.
You will learn how to calculate Earned Value, Variances and CPI. You will also learn application of critical chain concept to your project. Each lesson will have an assignment except for the last one. There will be final examination at the end of the course.
Required Material
Earned Value Project Management - Fleming & Koppelman |
Technical Requirements
You will need a major word processing program such as Microsoft Word for your assignments. If you use any word processor other than Microsoft Word, save the assignment files in Text Format or RTF format before uploading them on the workspace.
