Profile
In this course, Linda Nozick, Professor and Director of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell, shares clear, understandable, and practical methods for achieving better results. You will practice breaking down a project into pieces that can be scheduled, tracked, and controlled. While this is not a prep course for a project management certification, it will be quite valuable for anyone who is interested in pursuing one. This program will equip you with the concepts, tools, and language of project management that can be applied to any size and type of project. The course is provided by eCornell in partnership with Genashtim.
What You'll Learn
Examine the project management life cycle and the continuum of project characteristics.
Develop a work breakdown structure.
Construct a project network including mechanisms to identify task durations.
Construct a Gantt chart.
Use float information for decision making.
Identify the critical path.
Recognize shortcomings in computation.
Identify sources of uncertainty in task durations.
Examine PERT computations.