A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects.
Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
This course is part of Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization
Instructor: Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP
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What you'll learn
Define milestones and create a milestone schedule
Identify the resource needs of the project
Estimate the quantities and costs of resources needed for project activities
Use a responsibility assignment matrix to assign responsibilities
Skills you'll gain
- Timelines
- Dependency Analysis
- Resource Management
- Project Schedules
- Resource Allocation
- Resource Utilization
- Project Controls
- Milestones (Project Management)
- Project Estimation
- Cost Management
- Matrix Management
- Budgeting
- Project Planning
- Estimation
- Quality Management
- Budget Management
- Scheduling
- Project Management
- Cost Estimation
- Work Breakdown Structure
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KA
Reviewed on Aug 12, 2018
Very helpful big picture overview of critical competencies for budgeting and scheduling projects. Immediate application for numerous projects I'm managing or co-managing.
KP
Reviewed on Jun 16, 2020
Tough course but a great amount of information. I already knew some general project management things and implemented them. Knowing more and of the PMBOK will definitely help in the future.
GL
Reviewed on May 30, 2017
I like the Coursera way of teaching. Course content was right for me and the assessments were of a standard which meant I got the recognition I required to achieve my objectives.
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