Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims:- To provide students with an understanding of project management and to define a project's objectives, plan the enterprise, execute it and bring it to a successful conclusion for all parties involved.
Objectives:
After completing this module, students should be able to: define the projects objectives and the roles of the key participants; produce a project plan; design and control and management procedures; and explain the procedures required to bring that project to a successful conclusion.
Content: Project definition: Principal types of project. Project outline. Roles of key participants. Defining objectives. Project planning: Defining sub-projects. Time scheduling. Costings. Defining resource requirements. Standard planning techniques. Computer planning techniques. Risk assessment and analysis. Project control: Quality standards. Setting milestones. Progress monitoring. Management information systems. Variance analysis. Communications handling. Changes to specification. Corrective action. Project completion: Customer acceptance. Project audits.
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