Скачать или смотреть The Technical Side of Project Management - Streaming Video Course

By: Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto, Ph.D.

Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

011-The Technical Side of Project Management - Streaming Video Course
Participants in this course will gain a working knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques of project management through educational demonstrations, examples and illustrations.

Ten questions for Project Managers:

1. Are your projects ever late?
2. Are your projects ever over budget?
3. Which task should you start next?
4. Do you have enough people to complete your project on time?
5. Do you have too many people to keep your project on budget?
6. Do you know what tasks you must complete next week or next month to stay on schedule?
7. Do you have a list of uncompleted tasks for your project?
8. Do you know who will complete each of those tasks?
9. Do you have a strategy in place to deal with the loss of key individuals or other resources?
10. Do you lose sleep, worrying about any of these things?

This course will help you learn or relearn the skills of Project Management and end those sleepless nights.

This training program is a distance-learning course, created to give design, construction and manufacturing professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. The course is offered on Free Streaming Video. You earn continuing education credit by viewing the video and passing a 30-question online test.

The Technical side of Project Management is the second in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

Course Topics and timeline:
0:04:00 Introduction
0:14:00 Work Breakdown Structure
0:37:00 Network Diagramming
0:12:00 Activity Duration Estimation
0:58:00 Developing the Critical Path
0:20:00 Crashing Projects
0:55:00 Monitoring Project Performance
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:32:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:
Understand and write a work breakdown structure
Prepare and manage a network diagram for the project
Estimate the duration of all of the activities in the network diagram
Use the network diagram to establish the critical path for the project
Differentiate between the effective and ineffective methods for crashing projects
Monitor project costs and schedule