Project Management Essentials Study Guide

0-619-07540-6 © 2002 Publish date: April 4, 2002 122 pages

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Course ID: project-man-essentials-sg

Do you need to lead a project? Are you prepared for this task? While you may be completely qualified in the given subject, having essential project management skills will set you up for a smooth project from start to finish. CBT Planet has numerous computer training books about managing projects from basic to advanced. Consider the Project Management Essentials study guide if you need to learn the fundamental skills for successful project management. You'll be better equipped for success when you understand the process that's ahead.

By choosing the Project Management Essentials courseware, you will learn about identifying a project's participants, objectives, goals, activities, and constraints. Six well-written units contain a variety of topics designed to give you a quick overview of the essentials.

In addition, the book contains numerous interactive exercises such as activity dependencies and analysis, working with project schedules and budgets, creating network diagrams, CPM scheduling, using Gantt charts, and activity duration compression.

By following the Project Management Essentials courseware, you will also learn about optimizing project activities, estimating costs, controlling changes to your projects, accommodating those changes, measuring project performance, using project performance reports, control a project's schedule and budget, and closing your projects.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces how to define projects

• Project participants
• Project objectives and planning

Unit 2 discusses activities and dependencies

• What are project activities
• What are sequence activities
• Analyze activities
• Estimate activities
• Sequence dependencies

Unit 3 goes over project scheduling

• How to develop the project schedule
• Various techniques for schedule development
• The CPM and PERT

Unit 4 discusses project change control

• Defining project change control

Unit 5 covers financial issues

• Estimating costs

Unit 6 discusses project performance

• Measuring project performance
• Reporting project performance