MPM660 Schedule and Cost Control Techniques
Emphasizes a hands-on approach to using project management tools to facilitate scheduling, estimating, tracking and controlling the schedule and costs of the project. A project baseline will be set so that actual schedule and cost variances can be compared to the project baseline and corrective actions can be developed to address the variances. Specific topics that will be covered include: Gantt, PERT and Milestone charts, Critical Path Methods, Earned Value techniques, present value and internal rates of return. Topics including ways to communicate project status and to do contingency planning will be discussed. Examines ways of identifying, evaluating and mitigating risk in scheduling and cost control.
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This course is no longer offered.