Project Management Principles, Practices and Scheduling University of Pretoria

Overview

What you will study

During the Project Management Principles, Practices and Scheduling course offered by University of Pretoria, you will gain insights to develop a business case for a project, initiate the project, plan its life cycle phase, manage scope changes and deliver a scope statement, identify work packages and identify stakeholders (including their roles and responsibilities) on a project in your organisation yielding the benefits of project support systems and specialised management planning techniques.

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

• initiate projects,

• identify stakeholders and develop scope statements for projects in their work environment,

• manage scope changes,

• plan the life cycles of projects in their work environment

• identify work packages, and the responsibilities and roles of stakeholders schedule projects,

• allocate resources,

• estimate costs and control progress of delivery,

• explain the benefits and limitations of systems such as MS Project and others, and

• explain the basics of critical chain project management and of systems to authorise project work.