Project Schedule and Cost Management
Apply the balancing trade-offs between scope, time, and cost as major duties for successful and cost-efficient project completion with high-quality deliverables meeting or exceeding timeline and budgetary targets. Learn to optimize your schedules and evaluate the compliance of actual work to the set project baselines using earned value management techniques.
What you can learn.
- Describe project scheduling approaches including critical path, agile emerging practices, hybrid trends, and adaptive methodologies
- Identify key scheduling components comprising of activities, sequencing and estimating durations using bottom-up and top-down techniques
- Optimize the schedule of a project considering dependencies and constraints among activities, inserting leads and lags and applying crashing, smoothing, and resource leveling practices
- Prepare project-funding from the scope and schedule baselines using cost estimation techniques and performing budget formation with contingency reserves to preserve overall budget
- Utilize the Earned Value Management principles to track actual costs incurred on the project, and compare budget performance expectations to projections on future work in the project
About this course:
Apply the balancing trade-offs between scope, time, and cost as major duties for successful and cost-efficient project completion with high-quality deliverables meeting or exceeding timeline and budgetary targets. Learn to optimize your schedules and evaluate the compliance of actual work to the set project baselines using earned value management techniques. This course, along with others in the Project Management certificate, contributes to preparing students who are planning to take the PMP® Exam by PMI®.Winter 2020 Schedule
Available Format(s):
These courses are fully online, and there are no in-person classroom meetings.
Required course in Project Management Certificate.
Enrollment limited to 25; early enrollment advised. Internet access required. Materials required.
These courses meet in person and make use of an online presence to varying degrees.
Required course in Project Management Certificate.
Enrollment limited to 25; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required. Materials required.
Required course in Project Management Certificate.
Enrollment limited to 25; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted.
Materials required. Internet Access Required.Contact Us
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