Project management

 Content: Introduction to project management --
 Factors for project success or failure --
 Defining the project task --
 Estimating the project costs --
 First steps in planning the timescale --
 Financial appraisal and the business plan --
 Risk --
 Project authorization --
 Project organization structures --
 Organization of management change and IT projects --
 Key people in the organization --
 Work breakdon and coding --
 Completing the breakdown structures --
 Detailed planning : an introduction to critical path networks --
 Detailed planning : critical path networks in practice --
 Principles of resource scheduling --
 Scheduling people (and other reusable resources) --
 Scheduling materials --
 Scheduling cash flows --
 Computer applications --
 Managing project start-up --
 Aspects of commercial management --
 Managing procurement --
 Managing progress --
 Managing changes --
 Managing project costs --
 Earned-value analysis and cost reporting --
 Managing multiple projects, programmes and portfolios --
 More advanced or less frequently used techniques --
 Managing project closure.