ExecuTrain Austin

Scope, Scheduling, and Cost in Project Management

Target Audience

Personnel who have been, or will be assigned, project management responsibilities and who want professional certification. Project managers, and project leaders are encouraged to attend.

Class Description

This course is designed for you to be able to learn how to effectively ‘scope out’ a project, schedule accordingly, and then determine the estimated cost of the project.

One of the most critical components of running a project is establishing a solid scope definition of what the deliverables are to be. You will learn steps to setting a project scope, along with how to set a scope for a project that has never been done.

Discussions, case studies and exercises will be focused on scope definition, project scheduling and cost management. You will learn about advanced project management tools intended to avoid common abuses in scheduling such as generating a graph based on pre-determined dates.

The session includes project management cost processes that are required to maintain financial control of projects and ensure project completion within approved budget.

Objectives

• Be able to establish a Scope Definition, even for a project which has never been done before
• Learn and apply PERT

Key Topics

• Determining whether it is better to spend twice as much as planned and finish ahead of time or let a project finish one time.
• Managing unknown scope
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
• Surviving impossible (Death March) projects

Processes

• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Controlling
• Closing

Knowledge Areas

• Project Integration Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management