Projects Management
Professional management of the project (quality, schedule, cost)
Improving performance: improving methods and processes
How do the competitors offer such low prices?
Are the organization’s resources used effectively?
- Essence, performance indicators, processes, stages and life cycle, organization and management – organizational structure of projects.
- Project selection – engineering economics, cost – benefit, life cycle cost.
- Initiating the project, from problem to need, characterizing customer needs, other stakeholders, testing alternatives, initiation document.
- Processes: integration management – project plan, change control.
- Content management – content planning, verification, change control.
- Management of work packages, characterization, evaluation methods, resource evaluation, evaluation of duration of execution, product verification of a work package.
- Time management in projects, activities, priorities, relationships, deterministic / stochastic time durations, PERT network, AON, AOA, calculation of early and late times, calculation of intervals, locating the critical path, Gantt chart.
- Application of the MS Project software, hammock and milestone activities, calculation of times and intervals, critical path and Gantt chart.
Resource management, resource types, resource smoothing, resource constraints, resource optimization. - Project costing and budgeting: cost planning – fixed, variable, direct, indirect. Budget planning and control.