Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

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Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

Lay a foundation of project management success

A project manager has a lot to worry about—project cost management, creating a project charter, handling project management information technology, and developing project scope. He or she  needs to master communication management, as well as control project deadlines and due dates through forecasting and project schedule management.

This project management course teaches techniques that will help you plan, implement, and complete projects with desired results…on time and within budget. Learn how to use project management systems and tools to create clear project missions and goals. Learn to accurately estimate project time and costs, employ project quality management, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems for project control.

Learn how to:

• Use a step-by-step process for successful projects
• Complete multiple project tasks on time
• Improve estimation of project costs, resources, and time
• Improve your overall project management tracking
• Control projects through special methods, tools, and techniques
• Assess and improve your current project management system
• Immediately apply project management principles back at work

Course highlight! Hands-on participation is a key component of our series. Attendees will have the chance to apply content each day of this course.

PMBOK^™ knowledge areas

• Time, cost, scope management
• Quality management
• Risk management
• Project integration
• Communication management
• Human resource management

“In today’s business world, solid project management skills are a mandatory requirement for managers. I highly recommend the ‘Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control’ course to others, as it helped me develop and enhance my skills in all aspects of managing projects. The instructors, materials, facilities and classroom interaction are all top notch.”

Rich Grueter, CPM/Purchasing Category Manager, Astellas US, Deerfield, IL

The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 22 hours, as well as 22 PDUs.