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Managing Project Resources

Destiny Rutledge Brown

The focus of this course is on how to develop more realistic project estimates and utilize more effective project performance management systems. It offers proven tools and techniques for estimation of resources, budgets, and schedules as well as risk reserves. It also presents a universally applicable method for measuring current project cost, resource, and schedule performance as well as forecasting future needs. When the lessons from this course are properly applied, your project success rate is guaranteed to soar.

Skills / Knowledge

  • Build work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Apply WBS to estimate project budget, resources, and schedule
  • Estimate risk reserves for cost and schedule
  • Differentiate deterministic vs. probabilistic methods of estimation
  • Estimate various resource factors that control durations of project activities
  • Utilize proven tools to plan and manage project resources
  • Apply three levels of estimation for project planning
  • Build a network diagram and identify critical path
  • Develop individual baselines for scope, cost, resources, and schedule
  • Integrate individual baselines to build performance measurement baseline
  • Apply earned value management (EVM) method to evaluate project performance

Issued on

September 11, 2024

Expires on

Does not expire