This course consists of 2 half-day online sessions.
One of the primary responsibilities of a project manager is to manage a project’s budget and schedule. Success is often measured based on meeting deadlines and delivering the project within financial and schedule constraints.
The PM role today is much more complex, requiring a deeper understanding of stakeholders’ goals, needs, expectations, requirements, and risk tolerance. A project manager must have a holistic perspective and a nuanced understanding of project elements and their interaction with budgets and schedules.
This course will review roles and responsibilities, estimating, how to be a good steward of project resources and how to adapt project scheduling and budgeting efforts to uncertainty with concepts such as rolling-wave planning and agile delivery.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and other subject matter experts such as schedulers, financial experts, and others
- Prepare a project budget and schedule
- Use fundamental scheduling techniques such as calculating critical path and float
- Use cost-benefit analysis, earned value and velocity for project decisions and to understand project health
- Appreciate the importance of a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of project objectives
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Instructor: Inez Halaska, BFA, CMP
Inez Halaska has two decades of project management experience across a broad range of projects types including construction (both as an owner’s rep and as a vendor), information technology implementations, business re-organizations, and event planning. Her expertise covers all aspects of delivering successful projects from up front strategic planning, needs analysis and project definition, through project planning, delivery, and commissioning, to change management and benefits realization. She is currently a practising project manager running projects for a government regulator in the energy industry but her work experience spans government, private, and non-profit sectors.
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