Project Execution and Control

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