Description
This course prepares students to manage projects with a structured plan-driven approach. This approach includes many techniques, tools, and best practices which can help a manager through the multiple phases of a project: Initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.
A majority of organizational initiatives, innovations, and changes are created or implemented by projects. The project management discipline has developed significantly in recent years. One of the structured approaches for managing projects uses a plan-driven approach. This course prepares students to manage projects with a structured plan-driven approach.
In addition, students finish this course with a deep knowledge of the fundamental theories of project management. This knowledge can be used by those who wish to pursue the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI, www.pmi.org).
Themes covered
1. Business case
2. Project planning
3. Task decomposition and project estimating
4. Techniques for schedule management (PERT CPM)
5. Planning with MS Project
6. Project risk management
7. Project monitoring and control
8. Managing and negotiating with project stakeholders
9. The human side of project management political skills and managing projects
10. Project governance and the project management office (PMO)
11. Evaluating project performance and the post-mortem
Important notes
Course in French : PROJ 50709
Préalable(s) : MNGT 56126(A)(Co) ou être admis au programme 3792 - Visiteur - Entente mobilité.
Préalable(s) : MNGT 56126(A)(Co) ou être admis au programme 3792 - Visiteur - Entente mobilité.