Pre-requisites: Communication Skills
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To develop ability to plan and manage computer engineering projects successfully, maximizing the return from each stage of the hardware and software development life cycle.
ESSENTIAL TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Project Management Framework Fundamentals, The Project Management Framework, Project Management Knowledge Areas, Organizational Frameworks, Working with Organizational Politics and Influences, Differentiating Functional, Matrix, and Projectized Organizational Structures, Understanding Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets, Project Life Cycle and Organization, Managing Project Constraints, Project Management Process Groups,Project Management Processes Relationships, Understand Project Initiating, Initiating Process Group, Integration Management, Communications Management, Using Management by Objectives, Accounting Concepts Used with Initiating Processes, Examine Project Planning, Scope Management
Activity Planning, Project Cost Estimating Factors, Human Resource Management, Risk Management, Risk Management Planning and Risk Response Planning, Understand Project Execution, Quality Management, Tools and Techniques for Distributing Information, Investigate Project Monitoring and Controlling, Time, Cost, and Quality Management, Final Review Meetings, Professional and Social Responsibility.
Recommended Text(s):
PMP Exam Cram: Project Management Professional, 4/E Michael G. Solomon.