Project Controlling

Overview/Description
 Have you ever been involved in a project that felt more like a runaway train than an organized work effort? A project can take on a life of its own if there aren't adequate controls in place to help ensure that the project adheres to the approved planning documents. In this course, you will learn skills that are necessary for effectively monitoring project performance, changes, and quality.

Target Audience
 Business professionals and business managers across all business functional areas and industries who believe that basic project management skills will help them perform their job responsibilities more effectively

Expected Duration
7.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Reporting Project Performance

  • recognize the benefits of measuring and reporting project performance.
  • match elements of a variance analysis to their corresponding formulas.
  • perform a variance analysis, given project performance data.
  • identify the factors to consider when calculating earned revenue for a project.
  • calculate a given project's earned revenue for a specified reporting period.
  • match the three types of stakeholders to the information that should be presented to each during a progress report meeting.
  • deliver appropriate progress reports, for a given project, to stakeholders.

    • Integrating Change Control

  • recognize the benefit of controlling change during the life of a project.
  • identify management actions required to complete the steps for controlling project scope creep, in a given scenario.
  • apply steps for controlling scope creep, given a project management scenario.
  • identify examples of the steps for managing corrective action.
  • match examples of risks with appropriate responses to each.
  • determine the appropriate risk response for a given project risk.

    • Controlling Quality

  • recognize the benefits of managing the quality of a product.
  • identify questions to ask during a quality identification interview with stakeholders.
  • conduct a stakeholder interview to determine how given stakeholders define quality.
  • identify the steps for implementing corrective action to maintain quality.
  • apply steps for implementing corrective action to maintain quality, given a scenario.

    • Course Number: PROJ0004