- Introduction to project management
- Defining the project task
- Estimating the project costs
- A general introduction to project planning
- What makes an ideal project plan?
- Distinction between planning and scheduling
- Project analysis
- Introduction to project risk management
- Identifying the possible risks
- Risk appraisal and analysis
- Project organization structures
- Effective organization and communications
- Organization charts
- Work breakdown structure
- The WBS concept
- Coding systems
- Completing the breakdown structures
- Developing a project organization breakdown structure
- Relationship between the project WBS and OBS
- Detailed planning: an introduction to critical path networks
- Gantt charts: their advantages and limitations
- Detailed planning: critical path networks in practice
- Developing the network logic
- Milestones
- Estimating task durations
- Principles of resource scheduling
- What are resources and which of them can be scheduled?
- Scheduling people (and other re-usable resources)
- Choosing which resources to schedule
- Specifying resource availability levels
- Using different calendars for resource scheduling
- Project start-up
- Preliminary organization of the project
- Correspondence and other documents
- Getting work started
- Issuing detailed planning and work instructions
- Earned value analysis and cost reporting
- Earned value analysis
- Managing multiple projects, programs and portfolios
- Managing project closure