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Fundamentals of Project Management
- Characteristics of a project
- Understanding product and project management
- The project management process
- Common pitfalls when managing a project
- Identifying process groups
- Variables in the project management process groups
- Avoiding pitfalls
Characteristics of a project
- The project environment
- Understanding the internal and external environments
- Identifying stakeholders influence on a project
- Functional project organizational structures
- Matrix organizational structures
- Identifying the types of organizational structure
- The project manager and functional manager
- Identifying relationships between managers
- Identifying the skills of a project manager
- Project management responsibilities
- Exploring project management challenges
- Avoiding project staffing issues
- Staffing a project team
- Consultants and vendors
- Characteristics of effective team members
- Managing difficulties and logistics
- Identifying the needs for team building
Project initiation and scope planning
- Initiating and project
- Effective use of historical information
- Project Selection methods
- Exploring project deliverables
- Identifying project constraints
- Scope planning
- Conducting a benefit analysis
- Creating a scope statement
- Managing scope creep
Scope definition, verification, and change control
- Decomposing a project
- Work breakdown structures
- Designing a work breakdown structure
- Identifying the deliveries of a work breakdown structure
- Sizing work packages
- Scope verification requirements
- The timing of scope verification
- Understanding scope change control
- Developing a scope change control system
- Maintaining a lessons learned database
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Time Management
- Identifying time management components
- Distinguishing between tasks, activities and events
- Effects of milestones on activity sequencing
- Identifying dependencies
- Diagramming techniques
- Assessing activity duration
- Differentiating activity duration from work effort
- Estimation techniques
Schedule development and control
- Risk management and schedule development
- Network diagrams and schedule development
- Schedule development techniques
- Mathematical; analysis techniques
- CPM terms and calculations
- Comparing CPM, PERT and GERT
- Duration and compression methods
- Presenting a project schedule
- Dealing with resource allocation
- Controlling a schedule
Resource Identification and cost approximating
- Exploring cost estimating components
- Resource Identification tools
- Discussing resource identification tools
- Identifying resources
- Assigning resources
- Work breakdown structure and cost approximation
- Effect of risk on cost estimates
- Assessing factors affecting cost estimates
- Cost budgeting techniques
- Avoiding cost estimation pitfalls
Budgeting and cost control
- Explore value engineering and S-curves
- Creating budget standards
- Using a cost management plan
- Discuss capital budgeting
- Methods of calculating depreciation
- Guidelines for controlling costs
- Variance analysis
- Performance index calculation
- Calculating BAC, EAC, and VAC
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