Introduction to project management

• The notions of project and project management. The players in a project. Product and project. The project life cycle. Pr

Managing the project's content

• Planning and defining the content: analysing the product, identifying alternatives, analysing the stakeholders (the play

Managing time scales

• Estimating workloads. Estimation techniques: expert judgement (Delphi), analogy, rising estimates (analytical evaluation
• Sequencing activities: the antecedents method, arrow diagram, schedule network, determining dependencies, lead-time offs
• Drawing up the schedule: critical path, schedule compression, analysis of possibilities, levelling resources, the critic

Managing costs

• Estimating costs: techniques and methods.
• Budgeting: cost control, monitoring: budget indicators, building them, analysing them.

Managing risks

• Introduction to project risks. Risk management planning. Identifying risks (brainstorming, cause-effect diagram, analysi

Managing sub-contracting

• Planning the contracts. Asking for offers. Administering and terminating the contract.
• The players in a project: the general contractor, the contracting authority: roles and responsibilities.
• Managing project integration: the management plan, leading and steering the execution of the project. Monitoring indicat

Managing the project's human resources

• The team. Motivation. Management style. Scheduling resources. Training, developing, leading the project team. The projec

Managing project communications

• Interpersonal communication. Scheduling communications. Disseminating information. Drafting the progress report. Managin

Calculating the profitability of projects

• Types of benefit goals. ROI, return on investment. Investment decision.

Managing project quality

• Quality control benchmarks. Quality control and project. Quality control planning. Quality assurance implementation. Qua

Managing expertise on projects

• Company memory and project memory. General structure of a project memory.