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Budgeting and Scheduling Projects

Project Management Principles and Practices,

A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify the resource needs of the project 2. Decompose work packages into activities 3. Define what is needed to estimate activity durations 4. Define milestones and create a milestone schedule 5. Determine the critical path and calculate float 6. Describe the purpose of using leads and lags in a project schedule 7. Estimate the quantities and costs of resources required to perform project activities 8. Select one of three common cost estimating techniques to determine a project budget 9. Use a responsibility assignment matrix to assign responsibilities 10. Recognize the components of a project’s quality management plan

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Rating 4.7 based on 558 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $69
From University of California, Irvine via Coursera
Instructor Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP
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Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Leadership And Management

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Grate not only for beginners thank you so much, I have learn so much As in the other UCI Extension courses, this one have a good structure and a complete set of information that makes its simple to understand the basics of Schedule and Estimating in project management.

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This is despite the fact that the course equates "35 PDU's" and "counts towards the UCI Project Management Certificate Programm"; as it was described in the FAQ.

Attention: Margaret MaloneyHelloMy name is Sajid Mirza and I am taking the course on project management.

Details are as below: Introduction to Project Management, Lesson3 (Budget and scheduling week4, lesson 4.2), during the lesson at CPM: Duration and forward pass, section 3.23 the figure shows “EF” of activity “b” as 4 same as “LF’ of activity “a”, However, in the bonus video and in the PMBOK at page 176-177, it requires to add 1 in the EF of the successive activity.

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Project Schedulr & Cost Cntrlr $62k

Project/Cost Accountant $63k

Project and Cost Analyst $76k

Project Scheduler & Cost Controller $80k

Senior Project Cost Accountant $89k

Project Scheduler and Cost Controler $94k

Project Cost Accountant Lead 3 $98k

Project Cost Controller Lead $100k

Project Manager/Cost Analyst $112k

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Rating 4.7 based on 558 ratings
Length 6 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-3 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $69
From University of California, Irvine via Coursera
Instructor Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Leadership And Management

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