Description:
This course examines the project manager's role in an organization. It is designed to teach how to get a job done on time, within budget, and without compromising quality targets. This course assists the user in their preparations for the Project+ certification examination offered by CompTIA and the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) offered by the Project Management Institute. The book covers many of the topics required by the CompTIA Project+ examination, including the organization's expectations; organization structures and professionalism; management concepts; leadership, teams, and project lifecycle; project planning, objectives, statement of work, and the work breakdown structure; time management; introduction to Microsoft Project; project cost management; cost estimating and learning curves; project communications; quality planning, assurance, and control; and risk management.
Syllabus:
Topics Covered
• Organizational Expectations and Professionalism.
• The Organization.
• Project Management: Organizational Overview.
• Management Concepts.
• Project Planning.
• Project Time Management.
• Project Estimation and Cost.
• Project Communication.
• Quality.
• Project Risk.
• Project Tracking, Reporting, and Procurement.
What You Will Learn
• Focus on industry's expectations—Students learn about private and public companies.
• Informs both students and instructors about how technology business and industry operate.
• Use of Microsoft Project—Develop schedules using the industry-standard scheduling tool. A 120-day trial version of MS Project 2002 is packaged free with each text.
• Enables students to immediately contribute to a job by teaching them how to prepare and modify schedules.
• Introduction to methods and vocabulary—Discusses all activities involving a project manager.
• Gives students a complete understanding of the project manager's responsibilities.
• Focus on project pricing—Discusses direct and indirect costs, software and hardware estimating methods, and pricing strategies.
• Exposes students to project pricing elements and vocabulary.
• Emphasis on management, teamwork, and leadership—Discusses Tuckman's teamwork concepts: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
• Informs students about different types of management and that teams take time to evolve.
• Internet resources—Gives information about useful Internet sites; some lab assignments require Internet use.
• Gives students valuable practice, as accreditation organizations require library and Internet usage.
• Website—Contains files for an exercise in scheduling.
• Provides students with additional practice in real-world project management activities.
• Ethics discussions—In the text and lab problems.
• Helps students gain accreditation, as these organizations require the introduction of ethics in all aspects of the curriculum.
• Discussion of quality—Emphasizes the need for a project to conform to quality standards established by the contracting organization.
• Informs students about project manager responsibility.