Manage large projects by identifying their key characteristics, examining the key factors and risks that affect their performance and exploring methods to counter their impact on the successful delivery of projects.
This course is part of the Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization
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About this Course
This course is ideal for graduates from engineering, science and other numerate subjects or for professionals with relevant work experience.
What you will learn
Understand the key phases of a project life cycle
Discriminate between projects, programmes and portfolios and identify the key characteristics of major projects
Define forms of bias and strategic misinterpretation and ways of mitigating against them
Analyse the cost and time performance indicators of major projects
This course is ideal for graduates from engineering, science and other numerate subjects or for professionals with relevant work experience.
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University of Leeds
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Major engineering project performance
Programmes, portfolios and transaction costs
Time and cost in major projects
Project management success vs project success
Reviews
- 5 stars77.83%
- 4 stars18.47%
- 3 stars1.72%
- 2 stars0.98%
- 1 star0.98%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MAJOR ENGINEERING PROJECT PERFORMANCE
AWESOME PROCESS OF LEARNING!!!! The best course I've ever taken so far. Very clear, original, and really highlight the important topics with an extra case study. Just, AWESOME!
This course presents much more than expected at the intermediate level. Its comprehensive and accommodating in all aspect of delivery.
The course is very much practicality oriented. Learning process and structure of the course is very well and easy to go.
A very interesting course. Provides useful knowledge with interesting examples and challenging tasks. Recommend to everyone studying business or engineering.
About the Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization
Accelerate your career by improving your project management skills. This Specialization delivers a rigorous exploration of the best practices for planning and delivering these major engineering projects. You’ll learn about the measures of success, how to resolve challenges of governance and typical financing approaches of these projects.

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