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Project Management Fundamentals, Part Two
 

Project Management Fundamentals, Part Two describes techniques for planning and sequencing project activities. It describes how to identify the Critical Path for completing a project on schedule. It identifies the cost elements that should be included in a project budget and describes techniques for managing deviations from budgets and schedules. Finally, it describes key elements of project management communications and reporting tools and the key activities of project close-out.

Price $105 Nonmembers / $79 Members
Course Credits AIB: 0.25 (total with Part 1) ; ICB: 0
Prerequisites None
Required Software Shockwave 8.0.1 or higher
Optional Software None

Audience

Those with project management responsibilities or who are part of a project team.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Organize a project into sub-projects
  • Identify dependencies between work projects and use those dependencies to establish a logical order for work projects
  • Calculate the Critical Path, or set of activities which cannot be delayed, in order to accomplish project work on time
  • Identify the cost elements to be included in a budget
  • Describe the key tools for monitoring progress on a project
  • Identify variances in the schedule and budget
  • List the types of information that should be included in a communications plan