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 |
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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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The class material and presentation is excellent, and will definitely teach you a bit about project management.
A great, practical course for beginners in project management.
It is a well thought and well understood that really threw more light into all the areas seems so difficult in my earlier earned master degree in Project management.
Vital part of the Project Management course, gained wealth of knowledge in this regard.
There has never been an available option of downloading the lessons of the Introduction to Project Management in a PowePoint/PDF document.Printing these lessons page by page takes a lot of time and moreover is a terrible waste of paper and trees!!!
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.
good course in project management field Wish they gave more clear information on the calcuations.
This course has made the entire idea of Project Management much more relate-able to the work place.
Good course for basic and mid level project management professional having practical exposure.
Great course that introduced me to the best practices a Project Management can use as they approach Budgeting and Scheduling of projects.
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.
Excellent content of the course Easy learning and very helpful for an individual who are pursuing a career in project management.
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budgeting and scheduling projects
Doing this course 'Budgeting and Scheduling projects' gives learners, a practical approach to Project management based on PMBOK methodology.
Great course on Budgeting and Scheduling Projects!
This course is great knowledge for Budgeting and Scheduling Projects, and what I like most about its contents is networking diagram which is fantastic explanation.
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The course gives an insight into the Budgeting and Scheduling projects.
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easy to understand
The terminology wasn't too complicated and everything was easy to understand.
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y The course contents is delivered in a very easy to understand manner.
Great course, lots of knowledge Excellent course, well presented and easy to understand and follow!
The instructor is increadibly engaging and cheerful making even the most hard things easy to understand.
The case study scenarios were also apt, though 1 more for each model will be useful Excellent, Attractive Easy to understanding follow.
the videos also made me easy to understand, with added graphic and artificial visual.
Very interesting and easy to understand.
Very explanatory and easy to understand.
Very good slides which are well formulated and easy to understand Very well structured and easy to understand course.
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very interesting
best when this course is taken while reading the associated PMBOK chapters Very interesting module.
Very interesting !!
The PPT is very interesting.
very interesting thank a lot argaret Meloni Great course for those who just started to study project management and for those who want to improve their performance.
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clear and concise course It takes a score of 100%, not handed me the certificate, I request deliver me to prove my study Very good course contents, easy to follow Excellent course.
Excellent Course Very good course with clear and helpful examples and a great interview with experienced project managers.
i really enjoy it VERY GOOD COURSE Excellence!!!
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Thank you so much to my instructors for instructing Ana Pelayo.
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I've learned so much from this course that I feel that my career is going to take a turn for the b Excellent course Instructor is not clear and too fast!
Very good introduction for persons interested in learning m Good Work the course is really interesting read materials are quite good Although I knew some of the information, when I see it here it makes so much easier to conceive a project :).Thanks I especially appreciated the detailed look at the Network diagram!!
Learned so much about budgeting.
many tks Thank you so much Overall good experience.
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Overall, an excellent course fit for project managers and project team members who work for construction projects.
Also good for the aspiring project managers.
it was simply the best course i had ever learned All is well, but I wish the sound in the videos would be a bit louder Always thorough, and I especially find the interview panel with real project managers helpful.
Very good information and good to see current highly praised project managers being interviewed and giving their opinions.
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I appreciate the effort put in to pre Very interesting and useful, great examples Very well done course.
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User Friendly and easy to digest materials, well done course designer/s.Regards...Matt great course, you need to be focus Thanks to Margaret Meloni, she has great explanations and instances!
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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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Cost Project Manager $119k
Project Cost Control Manager $123k
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Rating | 4.7★ based on 558 ratings |
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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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