Course Description
Short Course | 18 hours | 1.8 CEUs | $1,995
Delivering projects within the scope, time and cost baselines are critical issues for project success. In this course, students go beyond project management fundamentals and learn how to establish and balance the competing demands of scope, schedule, and cost. They learn how to establish the performance measurement baseline (PMB) and gain proficiency in the tools and techniques used to compare actual work accomplished against established plans regardless of the development life cycle.
PMM350 is the third course in the Project Management Professional Certificate. To complete the certificate students will also enroll in PMM100, PMM250, & PMM800. Click on each course link for more details and to add to cart.
This course is Professional Development Unit (PDU) eligible.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Scope, Schedule and Cost Management Overview
- Scope, Schedule and Cost Baselines
- Scope, Schedule and Cost Management Plans
- The Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- Balancing Competing Constraints
- Managing Performance against the baselines
- Scope
- Scope Process
- Project Scope Statement
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)/ WBS Dictionary
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope
- Scope Management Considerations for Adaptive/Agile Environments
- Schedule
- Scheduling Concepts and Terminology
- Scheduling Process
- Define Activities
- Sequence Activities
- Estimating Resources
- Estimating Duration
- Developing the Schedule
- Critical Path Method
- Scheduling Techniques
- Tracking schedule progress
- Analyzing the Schedule
- Schedule maintenance
- Reporting the Schedule
- Schedule Management Considerations for Adaptive/Agile Environments
- Cost
- Cost Process
- Key Cost Concepts
- Overview
- Estimating Project Costs
- Estimating Costs Best Practices
- Estimating Process
- Estimating Techniques
- Estimate Checks and Presentation
- Determining Budget
- Controlling Costs
- Earned Value Technique
- Project Selection Technique
- Cost Management Considerations for Adaptive/Agile Environments
Learner Outcomes
- Understand key project scope, schedule, and cost concepts
- Develop deliverable-based work breakdown structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary
- Learn to Validate scope
- Learn Cost and Schedule techniques including Agile Methodologies
- Analyze and forecast project performance using earned value analysis
- Develop and measure against the performance measurement baseline
Prerequisites
This course is designed for anyone that wants to improve core scope, schedule and cost skills regardless of development life cycle. Prerequisites include Project Management Essentials or equivalent experience.
Duration
18 Hours | 3 Days or 6 NightsApplies Towards the Following Certificates
- Project Management Certificate - 83 Hour : 83 Hour Certificate
- Project Management Essentials Certificate - 48 Hour : 48 Hour Certificate
*Academic Unit eligibility to be determined by college/university in which you are enrolled in a degree seeking program.