Project Management in Organizations

Delivery: Online

College Credit: 3 credit hours

Estimated Length: 45 seat hours
Price: $1,035.00

 

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This course introduces students to the planning, implementation, and control activities of project management, including project and performance evaluation, quality control and workflow analysis. Emphasis will be on the initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing activities of project management.

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Delivery:

Learning takes place with an instructor in an online classroom and will include homework activities and weekly assignments.

Completion Time:

This is a 10-week accelerated course which will require weekly assignments and periodic online communication with an instructor. Visit link above for course start and end dates. Please note, this course is not eligible for extensions.

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. define a project and its elements.
2. produce the components of a project plan, i.e., goals, preliminary project plan, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), activity schedule with necessary precedence/ successor relationships and network diagrams for a project
3. illustrate the creation of a project schedule
4. discuss the development and use of network diagram techniques
5. construct a budget
6. explain how to control project costs
7. explain how to calculate a project’s earned value and its significance to the project team
8. analyze project quality using metrics and control tools by ensuring that the end deliverables fulfill the project requirements and scope of work
9. illustrate the concept of different types of risks, their uncertainties and associated mitigation strategies to minimize the overall risk uncertainties
10. define project procurement standards and its association with the different types of contracts

Outline:

Project management foundational concepts

The concept of scope management and how it is the basis for the entire project

The significance and usage of time management and its relationship with project scope and cost management

The use of quality management

How to use risk management to move the project to success

The concept of procurement management and its relationship with contracts