Engineering Project Management
Risk, Quality, Teams, and Procurement
Engineering Project Management,
Many Project Managers focus only on the scope, schedule and budget. However, a successful project requires that you manage risk, control the quality of the deliverables, engage and manage people and procure goods and services. This course will focus on these key support functions that make the difference between a highly successful project and an average one. During the course, you will prepare a Qualitative Risk Analysis and Evaluate the Cost of Quality for a provided Case Study. By the end of this course you will be able to: • Identify positive and negative risks • Develop risk strategies • Perform a qualitative risk analysis • Identify cost contingencies and reserves • Develop a quality plan • Identify quality standards • Utilize cause and effect tools • Create a prioritization matrix • Develop a team management plan that includes team development, identifying team members and clarifies roles and responsibilities • Develop a procurement plan that includes contracts and incentives All of this will position you to understand the more intangible aspects of project management to drive better overall performance. Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 12 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. *PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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Rating | 4.7★ based on 40 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 5 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
Starts | Jul 10 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $79 |
From | Rice University via Coursera |
Instructors | Tom Phalen, Kazimir Karwowski |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business |
Tags | Business Personal Development Leadership And Management |
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very good
This could of been added to the previous courses, but overall very good and informative.
Very good course material .
The coures is designed and taught in a very good order and logic.
One of the best course Very good information, techniques and tools mentioned for all the topics (Risk, Quality, Teams, and Procurement) but a little too basic.
Finally, Thank very much to all instructors or anyone contributes in preparing this course to content all these information that really gain more to background Very good course.
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Great Course!The content is up to date with market practices.Professors know profession's day-to-day and bring greats insights for career.
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It's a great course for delivering complex projects.
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Nice learning experience its very useful good Great course, I would recommend it.
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Content and studying material as well as all assignments from Case Study are very well thought-out and progressive in complexity; instrumental for learning PM concepts.I found this course to be in line of what I wanted to learn in Project Management.Tino Bernal JannaOrlando, FL USADec 2017 Wonderful,useful and grateful course ,too much thanks.My best Regards ,Mubarak It is very helpful Not as good as the other two courses in the specialization.
more details about contracts with an example for the drone case or electric car would be very helpful, just to have a wider idea of how to truly evaluate and utilize such documents.
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Rating | 4.7★ based on 40 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 5 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
Starts | Jul 10 (43 weeks ago) |
Cost | $79 |
From | Rice University via Coursera |
Instructors | Tom Phalen, Kazimir Karwowski |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business |
Tags | Business Personal Development Leadership And Management |
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