Project Management - 3GMAF342

Goal(s)

• Introduction to the main project management techniques based on PMBoks
• Project scheduling using PERT method
• Defining, scheduling and monitoring a project using MS Project.

Content(s)

Lectures
• Introduction: project concepts, project defining, project management
• Project Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS): client/owner, project manager, suppliers
• Project structure: breakdown the projects' life-cycles into phases
• Projects and company organisation
• Definition of deliverables and product organisational structure: Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) into different tasks, task organisational structure Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) scheduling
• PERT and GANTT workload concept, resource allocation, levelling and smoothing the workload, risk management of projects (identifying, analysing, circumstances, seriousness of the situation...)
• Product quality, carrying out and monitoring projects, reporting, monitoring chart, cost control
• Project risk management

Tutorial work on MS Project:
• Project structuring and planning: study case followed up by a given project
• Exercise summarising the whole course based on the AFITEP (Association Francophone de Management de Projet) certification examinations.