A 2-WEEK COURSE IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Overview and Expectations of the Course
- Development issues and challenges in the new millennium
- History of project development
- Project development models
Nature of a Project
- Objectives
- Using a SMART tool to identify objectives
- Defining a project
- Programs versus projects
- Characteristics of a project
- What is Project Management?
Project Development Process
- Define project scope
- Specify features, design
- Baseline system
- Build product, testing
- Deliver products to customers
Project Life Cycle
- Phase #1 : Defining the project
- Phase #2 : Planning the project
- Phase #3 : Executing the project
- Phase #4 : Delivering the project
The Parameters of a Project
- Project scope
- Quality
- Cost
- Duration/Time
- Resources
- Integration
- Communication
- Procurement
- Risk
Planning the Project Implementation
- Establishing project priorities
- Project priority matrix
- Project management trade-offs
- Tools for project planning: SWOT Analysis
Implementing the Project
- Creating a work breakdown structure
- Creating a project team and project review group
- Developing status report process
- Making changes to the project
- Assessing the quality of the project
- Making forecasts
- How to use WBS tool to identify staff
- Using the Logical Framework
- Team-building factor
- Dealing with risks and uncertainty
- Time management
- Risk management process
- Change process
Monitoring the project
- How to design the monitoring system
- The project control system
- How to design progress report system
- PERT Network tool
- Tracking Gantt Charts
- Formative evaluation
- Process evaluation
- Outcome evaluation
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Program documentation and reporting
Measuring Project Performance
- Requires the Understanding of three values:
- Planned Value (PV)
- Earned Value (EV)
- Actual Cost (AC)
- Finding Variances in the project
- Actual Costs (ACS)
- Budget at Completion (BAC)
- Cost Variance (CV)
- Schedule Variance (SV)
- Calculating the Cost performance Index (CPI)
- Finding the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
- Completing the Estimate to Complete (ETC)
- Preparing for the estimate at completion (EAC)
- Finding the Variance at Completion (VAC)
- The five rules of Earned Value Management (EVM)
Evaluating the project
- How to design evaluation metrics
- How to evaluate project against standards
- Primary targets
- How to evaluate project against stakeholders’ expectation
- How to evaluate external processes
Delivering the Project
- Train the clients and staffs
- Transfer documents
- Release resources
- Release personnel committed to the project
- Draw lessons learned from the project
Results-Based Projects
Conclusion
- Case studies and best practices
- Exercise and group presentation
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