Project Management: Monitoring Key Project Elements

Project Management: Monitoring Key Project Elements

This course is part of Project Management: Applying Predictive and Adaptive Methods Specialization

Instructor: Bill Rosenthal

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

5 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

5 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Track project schedules and costs using core Earned Value Management (EVM) variables like PV, EV, and AC.
Optimize project timelines with fast-tracking and crashing techniques while tracking sprints via burndown charts and Kanban boards.
Implement quality control tools, including control charts, Pareto diagrams, and root cause analysis, to manage variance.
Data files for this course are provided in the first course of this specialization, "Project Management: Project Launch, Work, and Scheduling".

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This course is part of the Project Management: Applying Predictive and Adaptive Methods Specialization

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There are 3 modules in this course

In this course, you'll continue developing your project management skills by monitoring and controlling the project schedule, optimizing a predictive schedule, and monitoring and controlling project costs. You'll also monitor and control risks, put quality plans into action, and control project quality.

Using a Predictive approach, you monitored and managed changes that occurred during project execution. The next step is to monitor and optimize the project schedule and cost to run the project successfully. However, using an Adaptive approach, monitoring is handled by tracking the team's performance during a Sprint, which primarily focuses on the project's schedule. In this lesson, you will monitor and control the project schedule and cost.

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With your project work underway, you have been monitoring the project cost and optimizing the project schedule depending upon the changes that occurred. Now, you need to monitor whether the project work is executed without any glitches by applying quality control measures. At the same time, you will also need to monitor risks you may have to deal with by adopting effective risk control measures. In this lesson, you will monitor the risk and quality aspects of the project.