The Project Management Monitoring and Control Course will cover the following topics and more:

Understanding Projects - Success and Failure

• Characteristics of Projects.
• Fundamentals of Project Management.
• Project Governance - controlling project selection.
• Project Governance - controlling project commencement using the charter.
• Controlling Understanding - effective kick off with the project team.

Project and Programme Context and Process

• Project and programme cycles.
• Controlling Stakeholder expectations - optimize the schedule.
• Logical framework, objectives, goals, outcomes, outputs, and inputs.
• Project risk management and critical assumptions.

Project Planning and Project Plan

• Project constraints (scope, time, cost).
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Activity sequencing and time estimates, project schedule and Gantt Chart.
• Critical path. Activity-based budgeting.
• Types of resources (material, human and financial).
• Resources allocation and optimization.
• Cost estimates and Contingencies.
• Project budget and cash flow.
• Integrating procurement activities into the operational schedule.
• Risk management plan.
• Applications with MS Project.

Project Monitoring and Control

• Actual cost and schedule updates.
• Estimate at completion and revised project plan.
• Corrective and preventive actions.
• Variance Analysis using Earned-Value Management (EVM) method.
• Forecasting to Control Project Budgetary and Schedule Concerns
• Managing Change
• Advanced Status Reporting Techniques

Controlling Project Closure and Addressing Unpredictability

• Scope Verification - requirements traceability
• Management of Project Records
• Continuous Learning Techniques through Project Retrospective
• Controlling Project Close-out
• Controlling Volatile Environments - adaptive project management
• Contrasting Control Mechanisms between Predictive and Adaptive Project Management

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