Project Management Basic, Second Edition Study Guide

0-619-28561-3 © 2004 Publish date: June 25, 2004 210 pages

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Course ID: pm-basic-2nd-sg

Do you want to learn the basics of project management? If you are tasked with managing your first project, you will benefit from learning the basics of Project Management. In addition, if you've managed projects before but struggled due to lack of knowledge, taking a course in the fundamentals will serve you well. CBT Planet has numerous computer training books devoted to this topic including the Project Management Basic study guide.

By choosing this self-directed Project Management Basic courseware, you will learn the fundamental project management techniques, including how to manage both time as well as costs. You will learn about the characteristics of projects, the project management process, and the role and responsibilities of a project manager.

This self-paced study guide contains numerous hands-on activities that will reinforce topics such as how to define a project's scope, write a project's charter, develop work breakdown structures, and examine time management concepts. You will also work with developing schedules, mathematical analysis techniques, and assigning resources.

The Project Management Basic courseware will also show you techniques for estimating resource costs, creating capital budgets, controlling project costs, and computing a project's estimate at completion and variance at completion. This study guide is an excellent tool to help you master the basics of managing your projects effectively.

Course Contents

Unit 1 goes over the fundamentals of project management

• Projects
• The project management process

Unit 2 covers the characteristics of a project

• Project environments
• Project managers
• Project teams

Unit 3 discusses initiating projects and scope planning

• Project initiation
• Scope planning

Unit 4 discusses scope definition, verification, and change control

• What is scope definition
• What is scope verification
• What is scope change control

Unit 5 goes over time management

• Activity definition and sequencing
• Activity duration

Unit 6 discusses schedule development and control

• Schedule development basics
• Schedule control basics

Unit 7 covers resource identification and cost approximating

• Indentifying resources
• How to approximate cost

Unit 8 covers budgeting and cost control

• Cost budgeting steps
• Cost control steps