- Degree Master
- Code: PMD911
- Credit hrs: 3
- Prequisites:
The course emphasis is placed on identifying the generally recognized best practices in project management, including the skills, tools and techniques that can enhance the chances of success. The project environment shall be explained from different viewpoints: the project organization and how it relates to corporate structures, the project life cycle from the initiation stage to the handover of the project, as well as different project management processes needed to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close. The course, also, addresses the project processes required to build an effective and realistic project plan. The course covers the identification of project scope and structuring it, determining the specific schedule for activities that need to be performed to produce the various project deliverable among with them inter dependencies. Also, the student shall learn, in how to use project management software to implement planning and scheduling on real world projects.
MBA
• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project Management Institute (PMI). • Project Management Professional (PMP) McGraw Hill E-Book. • Callahan, Stets and Brooks, Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking and Reporting Costs and Profitability, Wiley, 2007. • Pinto, Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Prentice Hall, 2007.
| content serial | Description |
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| 1 | 1. History of management and different project management applications 2. The relationship between project, program, and portfolio 3. The organization’s strategic planning and business value |
| 2 | 4. The five process management groups 5. Project phases and phase-to-phase relationships 6. Project life cycle and deliverable approaches |
| 3 | 7. Develop project charter 8. Project scope management, which includes: a. Develop project scope management plan, b. Create work breakdown structure (WBS), c. Monitor and control project work, d. Perform integrated change control, e. Validate and control the scope. 9. Project Time Management, which includes: a. Plan schedule management, b. Define and sequence the activities (including PDM (AON), dependency determination, and leads and lags, c. Estimate activity durations (including analogous estimating, parametric estimating, and PERT), d. Estimate activity resources, e. Develop schedule (including CPM). |
| 4 | 10. Resource optimization techniques 11. Schedule compression techniques |
| 5 | 12. Control schedule 13. Close project phase |
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