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Introduction to project management
- The notions of project and project management. The players in a project. Product and project. The project life cycle. Pr
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Managing the project's content
- Planning and defining the content: analysing the product, identifying alternatives, analysing the stakeholders (the play
Hands-on work
Breaking down a project into components and defining the life cycle.
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Managing time scales
- Estimating workloads. Estimation techniques: expert judgement (Delphi), analogy, rising estimates (analytical evaluation
- Sequencing activities: the antecedents method, arrow diagram, schedule network, determining dependencies, lead-time offs
- Drawing up the schedule: critical path, schedule compression, analysis of possibilities, levelling resources, the critic
Hands-on work
Evaluating workloads with different methods. Drawing up and analysing a diagram.Drawing up and analysing a schedule.
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Managing costs
- Estimating costs: techniques and methods.
- Budgeting: cost control, monitoring: budget indicators, building them, analysing them.
Hands-on work
Building a budget dashboard.
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Managing risks
- Introduction to project risks. Risk management planning. Identifying risks (brainstorming, cause-effect diagram, analysi
Hands-on work
Analysing tables and identifying responses.
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Managing sub-contracting
- Planning the contracts. Asking for offers. Administering and terminating the contract.
- The players in a project: the general contractor, the contracting authority: roles and responsibilities.
- Managing project integration: the management plan, leading and steering the execution of the project. Monitoring indicat
Hands-on work
A do-or-buy decision tree.
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Managing the project's human resources
- The team. Motivation. Management style. Scheduling resources. Training, developing, leading the project team. The projec
Hands-on work
Leadership style, individual assessment, project progress.
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Managing project communications
- Interpersonal communication. Scheduling communications. Disseminating information. Drafting the progress report. Managin
Hands-on work
Managing conflicts.
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Calculating the profitability of projects
- Types of benefit goals. ROI, return on investment. Investment decision.
Hands-on work
ROI, payback period.
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Managing project quality
- Quality control benchmarks. Quality control and project. Quality control planning. Quality assurance implementation. Qua
Hands-on work
Metrics search.
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Managing expertise on projects
- Company memory and project memory. General structure of a project memory.
Hands-on work
Search for capitalisation from identified risks.
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