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Project Management: Resources and Budgeting

OFFERED THREE TIMES:

4-Evening Seminar:
CRS# 00.609-041
Wednesday evenings: February 27, March 5, 12, 26; 6:00-9:30pm; Lowell Campus; 1.4 CEUs; 14 PDUs;
Tuition: $725

2-Day Seminar:
CRS# 00.609.042
Wednesday & Friday: March 5 & 7; 9:00am-4:00pm; Lowell Campus; Lunch and refreshments included. 1.4 CEUs; 14 PDUs;
Tuition: $725

2-Day Seminar:
CRS# 00.609.043
Thursday & Friday: June 12 & 13; 9:00am-4:00pm; Lowell Campus; Lunch and refreshments included. 1.4 CEUs; 14 PDUs;
Tuition: $725

Recommended: CRS#00.608 Project Management: Planning and Scheduling

Space is limited so register today!

Overview
This seminar is based on, but explores beyond, the core processes of the Project Management Institute: Scope, Time, Cost and Integration Management. It is appropriate for students being introduced to project management methods, as well as for those who know the fundamentals but want to expand their toolkit with new techniques and metrics for justifying needed resources, budgeting a project, and tracking and controlling work, schedule, cost, and value performance.

Performing projects requires resources, and resources always cost money and are of limited availability. Since the project is an investment, the project manager must strive to utilize the resources with which they are entrusted to maximum efficiency, generating the maximum value based on the terms of the project investment. This may often mean learning how to justify additional resources, based on the precise targeting of their use to generate greater value. Using standard PMBOK Guide techniques, enhanced by the techniques and metrics of Total Project Control, this seminar explores all the main tools for both planning and tracking resource usage, as measured in both labor hours and dollars.

Content

  • Activity-based resource assignments and costing
  • Resource scheduling and leveling
  • Developing a project budget
  • Developing a cost accrual schedule
  • Earned value planning and analysis, including all standard PMBOK Guide and DoD metrics
  • The new project tracking metrics of the TPC methodology

Instructor(s)
For the 4-evening seminar: Denise M. Guérin, JD, PMP, is a Massachusetts attorney as well as a project management consultant. Managing her own practice for most of her more than 25 years as a lawyer, she has made a career of helping clients establish, maintain, manage and grow all shapes and sizes of businesses and non-profit organizations, as well as advising on commercial, financing and real estate transactions. In addition, she is a principal of Xtispex Consulting Group, Inc., a program and project management consulting firm that delivers services in the areas of risk management, communication plans, organizational development processes, and post-project reviews, among others. She is the former Chair of the Law Practice Management Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and serves on the boards of several privately held corporations and non-profit organizations.

For the 2-day seminar: Stephen Devaux, PMP is President of Analytic Project Management of Bedford, MA, the creator of the methodology known as Total Project Control (TPC), and the author of Total Project Control: A Manager's Guide to Integrated Project Planning, Measuring and Tracking. He has spent 20 years training and consulting with Fortune 500 clients in industries ranging from aerospace and pharmaceuticals to software development and telecom. He has published numerous articles on instructional design and project management implementation.
 

For questions or to register, call (978) 934-2405!

Find out how you can apply this course towards a noncredit Certificate in Project Management!

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