Course Description
Covers the role of project management in a business or corporate environment. Teaches how to achieve project goals and objectives within set constraints, such as time and budget.
Week 1
Lecture: Course Introduction and Welcome
Lecture: Project Management Concepts and Project Needs or Solutions
Outcomes
- Discuss the foundational project management knowledge
- Draft project definitions
- Develop project objectives
- Create Statement of Work
- Operate Microsoft Project 2013 to create a project plan and enter task details
Week 2
Lecture: Organizing Projects
Outcomes
- Discuss the different types of organizational structures
- Choose which organizational structure is best for various situations
- Use Microsoft Project 2013, establish people, equipment, material, and cost resources
Week 3
Lecture: Planning Projects
Lecture: Interview on Planning Projects
Outcomes
- Create a work breakdown structure
- Discuss linear responsibility charts
- Assess potential project pitfalls and formulate solutions
- Identify solutions to improve interactions among multidisciplinary project teams
- Use Microsoft Project 2013, assign work, material, and cost resources to tasks
Week 4
Lecture: Establishing Project Schedules
Lecture: Interview on Budgeting Projects
Outcomes
- Discuss strategies for estimating budgets
- Create network diagrams
- Develop project schedules
Week 5
Lecture: Estimating and Allocating Resources
Outcomes
- Identify skills needed for a project
- Estimate work effort required for a project
- Plan resource assignments for a project
- Develop Cause and Effect Diagrams
- Use Microsoft Project 2013, apply a task calendar to an individual task and explore resource allocations and identify over-allocated resources
Week 6
Lecture: Effective Project Manager and Team
Outcomes
- Develop personal characteristics that suit project-management duties
- Build trusting employee-manager relationships
- Identify stakeholder lists
- Create project teams with high levels of responsibility and accountability
Week 7
Lecture: Tracking, Communicating and Documenting Project Progress
Outcomes
- Design effective project monitoring and controlling systems
- Explain the importance of communicating project progress
- Produce effective written communication
Week 8
Lecture: Managing Risk and Closing Projects
Outcomes
- Evaluate a risk’s likelihood and impact
- Produce risk identification statements and plans
- Plan for project evaluations throughout the life of a project
- Conduct effective and appropriate project terminations
The course description, objectives and learning outcomes are subject to change without notice based on enhancements made to the course. May 2016
