Project Management: Essentials (manual) with CBT option

Produced

• 2002-2004

Key Features

Student manuals available in packs of 5.

Project Management Essentials Manual, ISGN#0-619-07540-6 © 2002, Publish date: April 4, 2002, 122 pages, student version (without disk), $150 for pack of 5

Project Management Essentials: with CD + CBT, ISBN# 1-4188-4650-3 © 2005, Publish date: December 20, 2004, 122 pages, student version with disk, $165 for pack of 5

Project Management Essentials: Instructor Edition + CBT, ISBN #1-4188-4649-X © 2005, Publish date: December 20, 2004, 122 pages, includes CD with PowerPoint presentation, one manual with CBT and CD is $30

This course teaches the fundamentals of project management. Students learn how to identify project participants, goals, objectives, activities, and constraints. Course activities also cover activity dependencies, activity analysis, project schedules and budgets, network diagrams, Gantt charts, CPM scheduling, and activity duration compression. Students will also learn how to optimize project activities, estimate costs, control project changes, measure project performance, use project performance reports, accommodate change, control the project schedule and budget, and close a project. The manual is designed for quick scanning in the classroom and filled with interactive exercises that help ensure student success.

Course Length: One-Day

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Define the project
Topic A: Project participants
Topic B: Project objectives and planning

Unit 2: Activities and dependencies
Topic A: Project activities
Topic B: Sequence activities
Topic C: Analyze activities
Topic D: Estimate activities
Topic E: Sequence dependencies

Unit 3: Project scheduling
Topic A: Develop the project schedule
Topic B: Techniques for schedule development
Topic C: The CPM and PERT

Unit 4: Project change control
Topic A: Define project change control

Unit 5: Financial issues
Topic A: Estimate costs

Unit 6: Project performance
Topic A: Measure project performance
Topic B: Report project performance

Objectives:

•  Identify the effects of the environment, various socioeconomic and organizational issues, and organizational structure on a project; and identify the critical functions, necessary skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager.
•  Identify the components of time management; identify the purpose of activity definition and sequencing; recognize different diagramming techniques; identify the factors affecting activity duration; and identify techniques for estimating activity duration.
•  Describe schedule development; use mathematical analysis techniques for schedule development; identify the purpose of schedule control; and describe the importance of schedule adherence.
   

Features:

•  Designed specifically for one day of instructor-led training
•  Modular format allows instructors to skip around within a manual without breaking the overall flow of a course
•  Content available to be licensed and customized to meet your individual training needs
•  Accompanying Instructor's Manual includes marginal annotations and PowerPoint slides with embedded videos to support instructors in the classroom
•  This title may be purchased off-the-shelf, or licensed through CustomCourse software
•  Also available with a companion CBT program.

Project Management Essentials: Instructor Edition + CBT

This course teaches the fundamentals of project management. Students learn how to identify project participants, goals, objectives, activities, and constraints. Course activities also cover activity dependencies, activity analysis, project schedules and budgets, network diagrams, Gantt charts, CPM scheduling, and activity duration compression. Students will also learn how to optimize project activities, estimate costs, control project changes, measure project performance, use project performance reports, accommodate change, control the project schedule and budget, and close a project. This instructor's edition is designed for quick scanning in the classroom, and filled with interactive exercises. Comes with a companion CBT program.

Features:

•  Marginal annotations prompt you with relevant information as you teach the course. 
• PowerPoint slides with embedded videos accompany this book.
• Use publisher's dedicated instructor's web site to download important teaching resources.
• All instructor’s editions have the same consistent layout, structure, voice and timing across all topics to minimize prep time for instructors teaching a variety of courses.  
• This title may be purchased off-the-shelf, or licensed through CustomCourse software.
• Comes with a companion CBT program.

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