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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This course is ideal for graduates from engineering, science and other numerate subjects or for professionals with relevant work experience.
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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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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
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- 5 stars77.84%
- 4 stars18.44%
- 3 stars1.62%
- 2 stars1.04%
- 1 star1.04%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MAJOR ENGINEERING PROJECT PERFORMANCE
A very interesting course. Provides useful knowledge with interesting examples and challenging tasks. Recommend to everyone studying business or engineering.
Excellent material - I have over 30 years experience - but am still learning!
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A very thorough course, perfectly understood by me who is just a third-year civil engineering student! I would like to see more course like this
Useful & Informative course explained in crisp 5-15 min sessions. Assignments involve application of the learning that help the concept to be understood more clearly
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