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
- Quality Management
- Resource Management
- Estimation
- Matrix Management
- Cost Management
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Cost Estimation
- Project Management
- Timelines
- Project Schedules
- Project Estimation
- Milestones (Project Management)
- Budget Management
- Budgeting
- Scheduling
- Quality Management Systems
- Dependency Analysis
- Project Planning
- Resource Allocation
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FH
Reviewed on Jul 21, 2017
This course has really helped me in understanding my work better from a project's perspective. It has also highlighted the pitfalls in project's planning and executions we face everyday.
JR
Reviewed on Feb 5, 2017
Great course going into important details on cost and budgeting. I really like the video portion which gives real-world examples that help reinforce and bring the concepts to an everyday audience.
RG
Reviewed on Dec 15, 2017
Excellent practical advice given in the tutorials and videos that will help you avoid some of the common pitfalls of project management and make you look a true project management professional.
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