Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe the Project Management Institute (PMI)® framework, definitions, practices, life-cycles, phases, terminology, project management process groups and knowledge areas.
• Identify the skills needed by project managers to successfully manage projects.
• Apply techniques for creating, managing and developing project teams.
• Identify available resources and software to help with project management and delivery.
• Explain the difference between projects and operations (and how they intersect).
• Describe the factors for project success and failure.
• Develop the project charter that includes the projects goals, summary level cost and scheduling information, assumptions, risks, constraints and roles & responsibilities.
• Create a statement of work, project requirements, scope of work and work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Apply project scheduling techniques including program evaluation and review technique (PERT), critical path method (CPM) and Gantt chart to create a comprehensive project schedule.
• Define the resources requirements needed to deliver the project work packages and activities.
• Apply project budgeting techniques for determining project costs and for life cycle costing by using analogous, parametric, bottom-up, ratio, and statistical estimating methods.
• Create a risk register to identify, manage, and control project risks.
• Manage project communications by identifying project stakeholders and creating a communication matrix.
• Apply project monitoring & control techniques to track the budget and schedule using methods for measuring actual vs planned performance and earned value technique.
• Develop a change management process for managing budget and schedule changes by analyzing impacts, considering project trade-offs and updating the project documents.
• Close out projects by completing commitments, measuring performance and conducting lessons learned.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2019