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A successful project manager relies on an effective management process and a project baseline plan to monitor progress, identify variances and take action to mitigate the impact of problems. Learn how to manage project execution through completion and evaluation. You also explore the tools and techniques for project control, and build on processes you learned in Project Management BUS ADM X470. We recommend that students pursuing a certificate in project management complete this as their final course.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Use project planning to establish a realistic project baseline
- Manage project changes and, when necessary, update project objectives and plans
- Establish reporting and other communications to enhance project control
- Define and use project metrics for monitoring and control, including Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project status measures
- Track project progress and manage performance variances
- Use feedback and motivating techniques to maintain and enhance teamwork and progress
- Enhance control through project reviews, project office recourses, and program and portfolio management
- Successfully close projects, deliver expected results, and better control and manage future projects
What You'll Learn
- PMBOK® and PMI tools
- Sponsor and stakeholder expectations
- Project infrastructure
- Project organization
- Project life cycles
- Estimation, critical path, resource analysis, risk management
- Components of a project plan (WBS, schedule, resource plan, other documents)
- Software tools for project management
- Setting a project baseline
- Establishing a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- Project change control
- Project communications
- Project metrics
- Cost metrics, including earned value management (EVM)
- Earned value management (EVM) and tracking
- Compound metrics (including SV, SPI, CV, CPI and other compound metrics)
- Using TCPI
- Project tracking
- Project team leadership
- Project environment
- Project closure
How You'll Learn
- Lectures
- Team projects