Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time and Cost Management (Coursera)

Offered by Rice University,
Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time and Cost Management (Coursera)

Scope, time, and cost management are at the heart of successful project management. This course will give you the tools to develop a project scope, schedule and budget and then status them to predict project performance. Throughout the course, you will learn about change management and techniques to implement it.

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By the end of this course you will be able to:
• Create a requirements document
• Create a Project Scope Statement
• Identify ways to control the scope of the project
• Decompose the work and develop work packages
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Develop a Critical Path Schedule
• Review types of cost estimates and identify whether they are “top down or bottom up”
• Review budgets, contingencies and reserves
• Calculate planned and earned values to compare with actual cost
• Perform a cost and schedule analysis
Each week you will prepare a key deliverable for the project plan based on a provided Case Study. These deliverables include:
• Project Scope Statement
• Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary
• Critical Path schedule sequence diagram
• Bar Chart Schedule (Gantt Chart)
• Project Cost Estimate
• Project Status using an Earned Value Calculation
All of this will position you to set up a plan to control your next assignment or your next project whether this is as the project manager or as an area leader.
Course 2 of 3 in the Engineering Project Management Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1: Course Introduction; Project Scope Management
WEEK 2: Project Schedule Management
WEEK 3: Project Time Management
WEEK 4: Cost Esimation
WEEK 5: Earned Value Management
WEEK 6: Course 2 Final Exam

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