(FALL 2009)

Project Monitoring and Control (Section 1) MGMT X452.39  (2)

A required course in the Certificate Program in Project Management.
This course will focus on proven methods for the monitoring and control of project costs and related schedule. Students will work through the steps needed to methodically plan project work producing an integrated cost profile and schedule baseline. Students will compare that baseline with the weekly schedule and cost data that has been collected by the project. Earned value techniques will be applied using this collected data to produce cost and schedule performance metrics. These metrics will in turn be used by the student to project future costs at the completion of the project and to predict the likely ability of the project to complete work on schedule. Students will also be shown how basic schedule planning and control techniques, including network diagrams and tracking Gantt charts are used to monitor schedule performance. Students will build a standard schedule; cost performance measurement reports, and briefing charts. Prerequisite: Mgmt X442.28, Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices. This course is approved for 19 PDUs from PMI.

Cyndi Stackpole, M.B.A.,PMP, is a professional project management consultant, instructor and author. She has written four books on project management and has been the technical editor on many others. Her most recent book, A Project Manager's Book of Forms, was just released and provides forms that are consistent with the new PMBOK® Guide. Cynthia provides consulting and training services for government and private industry. Her consulting focuses on project management maturity, PMO start ups and positioning project management as a core competency for organizations.