Project Management

Course details

Project Management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems. A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end, undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services. In practice, the management of these two systems is often quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.

Course Outline

• General introduction on the main concepts in project management
• Defining the meaning behind project lifecycle and project management lifecycle
• Project characteristics and behavior along the total lifecycle
• Project scope management handling (writing down project scope statement)
• Characteristics of specification writing
• Forming project network diagram
• Calculation of the critical path and activity floats
• Calculation of project man-days and effort requirement
• Calculation of project duration and contingency plans
• Calculation of project cost and budget
• Implementing the concept of earned value to assess project progress and projection
• Generating project performance and status reports
• Risk management and response plans
• Introducing the concept of tornado diagram and decision tree
• Contract types and selection criteria
• Hands on MS project for implementing the main theories of PM