Course Description

This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to manage and control projects. It deals with all the processes necessary to plan, manage, execute, and control projects. Participants will learn how to develop a project management plan following PMI’s project management process in alignment with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The course also details the steps necessary to define project baselines (scope, schedule and cost) and then illustrates many practical examples of controlling activities with emphasize on schedules and costs. Participants will learn to apply best practices to control project schedules and budgets to ensure project objectives are realized and benefits/value delivered to the sponsor organization.

Thomas Vasconi

I was searching for a Project Management course to supplement the one I previously took part internally, and I found Project Victor PMP course! Further to a discussion with Dr. Petros Rigas I decided to attend the 5 day PMP Exam Prep Course in March 2016. (…)

Key Features of Managing and Controlling Projects course

What Participants Will Learn

Managing and Controlling Projects helps project managers:

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course Duration

Target Audience

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Project Management and Project Controls
  • How to collect requirements
  • How to define scope and the scope statement
  • How to create the WBS (Product Backlog) and define the scope baseline.
  • How to define activities and develop the activity list and activity attributes
  • How to sequence activities using the precedence diagramming method (discussion of prioritization in Agile environments)
  • How to estimate activity resources and a discussion of the resource breakdown structure
  • How to develop the project schedule and define the project schedule baseline (discussion of product roadmaps in Agile environments).
  • How to estimate the costs using various cost estimation techniques
  • How to use cost aggregation and define the cost baseline
  • How to measure project progress
  • How to track project schedules using Gantt Charts (with application examples using Microsoft Project)
  • How to conduct what-if analysis
  • How to measure schedule variance and conduct variance analysis
  • How to track project actual costs and measure cost variances and conduct cost variance analysis
  • How to use Earned Value Management (with applications in Microsoft Project) to control project progress
  • Discussions of tools such as trends analysis, earned value analysis, and project forecasting methods