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Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

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Take advantage of the special combined rate of $2,590 for both courses when you take “Applying MS Project to Plan, Schedule and Control Your Projects” the same week as “Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control” or “Project Manangement Captstone.”

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Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control

Project management: getting started

  • Developing project objectives and goals
  • Creating a project charter
  • Developing a project plan
  • Capturing functional requirements and defining scope
  • Developing and using a work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Exercise: practice what you learned

Developing the project schedule

  • Estimating time, costs and resources
  • Using network scheduling techniques: bar charts (Gantt), critical path methods (CPM), performance evaluation and review techniques (PERT), precedence diagrams
  • Addressing the real issue in project scheduling—resource allocation
  • Using MS Project as a tool
  • Exercise: practice what you learned

Implement and evaluate

  • Establishing and maintaining control using basic feedback systems
  • Managing scope changes
  • Measuring project progress: using variance or earned-value management
  • Closing out projects and project evaluations
  • Exercise: practice what you learned

Project management action plan

  • How to apply project management principles and tools back at work

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.