Master of Business Administration in International Management - MBA

Course Description

MGMT X452.39: Project Monitoring and Control (1 credit)

Note: All courses carry three (3) credits unless otherwise stated.

This course focuses on proven methods for the monitoring and control of project costs and related schedule.

Participants will work through the steps needed to methodically plan project work, producing an integrated cost profile and schedule baseline. They will compare that baseline with the weekly schedule and cost data that has been collected by the project. Earned value techniques will be applied using this collected data to produce cost and schedule performance metrics. Participants will in turn use these metrics to project future costs at the completion of the project, and to predict the likely ability of the project to complete work on schedule. Gantt charts are used to monitor schedule performance.

Participants will build a standard schedule, write cost performance measurement reports and briefing charts, and be exposed to basic schedule planning and control techniques, including network diagrams and tracking.