Project Management

ICM Single Subject Diploma in

Project Management

Course Outlines

Projects in Contemporary Organisations

• Definitions
• Why project management
• The Project Life Cycle (PLC)

Strategic Management and Project Selection

• Project management maturity
• Project selection and criteria of choice
• Types of project selection models
• Net present value

The Project Manager

• Job description
• Job specification
• Person specification
• Cultural differences

Project Organisation

• Functional organization
• Pure project organization
• Matrix organization
• Mixed organizational systems
• Project teams
• The human factor

Project Planning

• Initial project coordination
• Systems integration
• Work breakdown structure
• Linear responsibility chart

Conflict and Negotiation

• The nature of negotiation
• Partnering, chartering, and change
• Conflict and the PLC
• Linear responsibility chart
• Principles of negotiation

Budgeting and Cost Estimation

• Estimating project budgets
• Improving the process of cost estimation

Scheduling and Resource Allocation

• Background
• Network techniques: PERT and CPM
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• The resource allocation problem
• Resource loading
• Resource leveling
• Crashing

Monitoring and Information Systems

• The planning-monitoring-controlling cycle
• Information needs and the reporting process
• Earned value analysis
• Computerized Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)

Project Control

• The fundamental purpose of control
• Three types of control process
• Design of control system
• Control as a function of management
• Balance in a control system
• Control of creative activities
• Control of change and scope creep

Project Auditing

• Purpose of evaluation – goals of the system
• The project audit
• The project audit life-cycle
• Construction and use of the audit report

Project Termination

• The varieties of project termination
• When to terminate a project
• The termination process
• The final report – a project history