Project Management: Basic

Course ID

90100

Course Description

This ILT Series course teaches students basic project-management techniques, including managing time and costs. Students will identify the features and attributes of a project, the steps and variables of the project management process, the effects of environmental, socioeconomic and organizational structure issues, and the responsibilities of a project manager. Course activities also cover defining the project scope, writing a project charter, developing a work breakdown structure, identifying time management components, describing schedule development, using mathematical analysis techniques, and assigning resources. Students will also learn how to estimate resource costs, create a capital budget, control the project costs, and compute a project's estimate at completion (EAC) and variance at completion (VAC). The manual is designed for quick scanning in the classroom and filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success.

Prerequisites

None

Audience

Business Professionals

Course Content

    Fundamentals of project management
  • Projects
  • The project management process

    Characteristics of a project
  • The project environment
  • The project manager
  • The project team

    Project initiation and scope planning
  • Project initiation
  • Scope planning

    Scope definition, verification, and change control
  • Scope definition
  • Scope verification
  • Scope change control

    Time management
  • Activity definition and sequencing
  • Activity duration

    Schedule development and control
  • Schedule development
  • Schedule control

    Resource identification and cost approximating
  • Resource identification
  • Cost approximating

    Budgeting and cost control
  • Cost budgeting
  • Cost control

For More Information

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Course Details

Duration - 1 day
Price - $250.00 USD


(Discounts may apply. Call for more information.)

Course Actions

Schedule

Acceletrain Collaborative Learning Environment (formerly know as VILT) places industry certified and expert instructors, peers, learners and multi-media components into a "borderless classroom", and interactive learning environment that can span multiple physical locations. VILT combines the benefits of the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom with innovative learning techniques and the cost savings of internet-based training.