Effective Project Management

Title

Effective Project Management

Objectives

To provide learners with a complete overview of project management methods and instruments available for effective operations.

Learning goals

At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Describe project management principles
- Implement the main project management techniques

Contents

- Project management methods
- What is a project
- The lifecycle of a project
- The commitment level
- Efficiency and effectiveness
- The characteristics of objectives
- The work breakdown structure
- The aggregation method
- The identification of resources and competences
- The matrix scheme
- The organizational breakdown structure
- Scheduling and activity sequences
- Planning a project
- The control cycle
- Estimating activity duration
- Milestones and project calendar
- The critical path method
- Gantt’s diagram
- Managing temporal uncertainty: the PERT technique
- Project Information Systems
- Choosing a project management software

Structure

The course was created in cooperation with the experts of SDA Bocconi and includes three teaching modules comprising the following training units:

Module 1

Unit 1	Lesson
Unit 2	Lesson

Module 2

Unit 1	Lesson
Unit 2	Lesson
Unit 3	Lesson with practice slides
Unit 4	Lesson with practice slides
Unit 5	Lesson with practice slides
Unit 6	Lesson
Unit 7	Lesson with exemples
Unit 8	Lesson with practice slides

Module 2

Unit 1	Job game
Unit 2	Job game
Unit 3	Job game
Unit 4	Job game
Unit 5	Job game
Unit 6	Lesson with practice slides

Target

Professionals and managers entrusted with the planning of business activities and project management

Duration

3 hours