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About the Course

Scope, time, and cost management are at the heart of successful project management. This course will give you the tools to develop a project scope, schedule and budget and then status them to predict project performance. Throughout the course, you will learn about change management and techniques to implement it. By the end of this course you will be able to: • Create a requirements document • Create a Project Scope Statement • Identify ways to control the scope of the project • Decompose the work and develop work packages • Create a Work Breakdown Structure • Develop a Critical Path Schedule • Review types of cost estimates and identify whether they are “top down or bottom up” • Review budgets, contingencies and reserves • Calculate planned and earned values to compare with actual cost • Perform a cost and schedule analysis Each week you will prepare a key deliverable for the project plan based on a provided Case Study. These deliverables include: • Project Scope Statement • Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary • Critical Path schedule sequence diagram • Bar Chart Schedule (Gantt Chart) • Project Cost Estimate • Project Status using an Earned Value Calculation All of this will position you to set up a plan to control your next assignment or your next project whether this is as the project manager or as an area leader. Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 14 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc....

Top reviews

DC

May 28, 2018

I was very satisfied by this course contents, and also by the way of teaching of the 2 Professors. I definitely recommend it to engineers who want to increase their knowledge on project management.

MA

May 26, 2019

Really good course especially for engineers new to the field of project management and handling. I appreciate the hard work that has been done to put this course together.

Thank You once again!

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By Krishna A T

Apr 21, 2021

awesome course

By Velkumar M

Feb 15, 2021

Good

By Khadija T

May 11, 2020

Everything was good about this course, however, some people taking these types of courses are not serious and are not objective when grading the work. They would definitely give you a bad grade though you did an almost perfect job. Some of them would submit whatever work just to pass the assignment, which is really bad.

By Eduardo G

Oct 15, 2018

The content is relevant, but the delivery is conventional, frontal, and at times not careful. The quiz tests are often too trivial to be a useful exercise. Grading by peers is an interesting idea, but unfortunately it does not happen in timely fashion.

By MCMC

May 22, 2020

The video material was high quality, but the exercises became very inconsistent and very badly planned. The tasks didn't help to assimilate the content of the lectures and the Excel templates provided were corrupted. That was very disappointing.

By PRUDHVI R M

Apr 14, 2021

good

By David R

Sep 25, 2020

30 years running programs, up to five years @ $3M/yr. Only four units in I want to fire somebody. Material correlates very poorly with quizzes... about half the answers can not be found directly in the PMBOK or presentations. The assignments are a total load... info provided is completely insufficient to do the work. Cumulative and iterative building of project docs is difficult since the expectations for each type of assignment do not "nest" properly. For example, a 1120 hour project has 28+ items on the WBS. Now they want this resolved into a CPM diagram? Effort hours info is in nine categories, which are not well-correlated to anything and thus need to be spread laterally across functions. And still add up. Without software this is an all-day job, notwithstanding that it requires some judgement beyond scope of the class.

By Joseph S

Oct 7, 2021

This course is a waste of time and money. You might as well just go read the PMBOK. I had to put the instructors at 2x speed just to get through the lectures. The quizzes ask basic questions that are all just small differences in syntax and terminology. The case study template they give you doesn't allow for any flexibility, and the case study itself is irrelevant to anything I'll be doing.

Probably a better course for construction management. Not applicable to engineers who don't work with clients on every project.

By Hua ( L

Oct 15, 2022

Excellent course! Excellent Professors and teachers! This course is perfecting me and let me realize my previous childish, stupid and immature thinking method and deeds. Thanks, thank the prestigious and respectable Professor Tom and Kaz, and other teachers for providing such valuable and useful course to us. Thanks, thank Rice University for giving me such good and quite rare learning opportunity.

By Muhammad S K

Aug 3, 2020

such an amazing course , learned alot from it the instructors are amazing ,Every lecture was easy to follow and understand . Little bit improvement is needed regarding discussion forum I mean to say that if a question is not answered moderators should look into it .overall i would recommend that those who want to peruse career in project management or engineering management should take this course

By Jad A

Dec 23, 2020

Personally, as an architect who had zero knowledge of project management, this online course taught me so much although this is completely different than my type of work since I'm a designer. I loved the instructors and more importantly, the graphs and visual notes that made it easier and faster to understand the materials of this course.

By Lucas Y M R

Jul 13, 2021

Really good course! It gives you I impressive load of information about Project Planning. It is simple, so even someone like me who never had a class about this subject can understand and learn a lot in the Course. Furthermore, despite the simplicity, the course is really detailed and deep about the knowledge!!

Amazing!!!

By ABDOULAZIZ I A

Jul 15, 2022

At the end of this training, I feel confident to be able to manage a project. I am really satisfied with this course. I warmly thank Tome Phalen and Kazimir Karwowski for this overall high quality course and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn or improve their project management skills.

By Tino B

Dec 18, 2017

Great Instructors, Great Course, Fantastic Content and studying material. A;ll assignments from Case Study are very well thought out and instrumental for learning of concept.

I found this course to be in line of what I wanted to learn in Project Management.

Tino Bernal Janna

By Trinanjan B

Jun 6, 2020

An important course for those who are aspiring for leading a project team or an organization who will undertake projects in various realms of today's world. What is the utility of being an engineering if you can't apply your knowledge in handling a team or a project?

By Muhammad A

Aug 13, 2020

During this learning tenure i developed and boosted my knowledge and engineering project management skills like scope, time and cost management. I would like to suggest to my colleagues to avail this opportunity for their better career.

By Omar R P M

Dec 19, 2019

Excellent content. Beginner to intermediate level (in my opinion). Nice overview of the scope, WBS, scheduling tools, and cost estimates. Recommended 100%. A nice mix of videos, lectures, students' interaction, and assignments.

By Joshua R

Jun 8, 2020

The instructors are well informed and experienced in project management. The assignments are appropriate to the course. Furthermore it is offered by a prestigious university which adds to your resume. 5 Stars!

By Davide C

May 29, 2018

I was very satisfied by this course contents, and also by the way of teaching of the 2 Professors. I definitely recommend it to engineers who want to increase their knowledge on project management.

By Horkiz R

Aug 17, 2022

very well organized, skilled and experienced instructor, practical examples and cases senarios helps to practice the real business cases. I gain so much from it.

thanks.

By MOHAMMADIRFANPASHA

May 9, 2020

Interesting and had fun while learning the course. This will help me build my career. Thank you for the professors and the institute for offering this course.

By Shahid U K T

Dec 12, 2022

Engineering Project Management is a vast field. Coursera platform provided me with resources that helped me grow my management skills. Thank you coursera.

By Thi T D P

Jun 5, 2021

I have learned a lot from the course. Through the course, I understood the basics of project management, division of work, and cost and time management.

By Leonard H

Jul 10, 2020

Great course. This course gave me more knowledge in project management. and formulate the way we manage the scope, schedule, cost, and project control.

By Soumay G

Jul 28, 2020

Peer Graded Assignment will help us, to perform our work and know different tools and techniques, software being used for project management tools