Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time and Cost Management
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.
Status: Cost Management
Cost Management
Status: Project Management
Project Management
Beginner·Course·23 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Sep 26, 2017
Very good course, super practical which helps a lot understand the subject and how to apply techniques and methodologies. I totally recommend.
4.0
·Reviewed Mar 18, 2020
I found this course very helpful, especially for beginners. The course provides all the necessary information that is required to be understood in a simple way.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 11, 2020
Great strategies for managing projects. They build a good way of thinking when it comes to structure and analyzing the project.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 16, 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.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 28, 2020
This is a very good course for Scope, Time and Cost Management sectors in the Engineering Project Management field.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 22, 2020
Great instructors, I really enjoyed being a part of this course, I will look forward to attend more classes with these t
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 3, 2020
The content were useful and case study assignments helped to work by oneself and get habituated to the concepts. Presentation delivered all imp. content.
4.0
·Reviewed Sep 18, 2022
the online coarse provides good industrial skills however the submission must have names since I have noticed most students copy work
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 6, 2021
This is the most comprehenvise course among all 3 in the engineering management specialization. There are some tools and insights that add lot of value and therefore a good starting point.
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 31, 2017
Good course for those who wanted to understand techniques in Triple Constraint or Iron Triangle and to achieve PMP certificate. I especially like the explanation of finding Critical Path.
5.0
·Reviewed 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!
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 22, 2020
This was good course and there is detail explanation video on project which is helpful to understand the conceptThanks
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Lynne
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 18, 2018
Hands-on real-life experience because you produce all of the work products for a project. It's a very thorough well done, professionally produced series of courses!
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Sreekar
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 7, 2021
This is the most comprehenvise course among all 3 in the engineering management specialization. There are some tools and insights that add lot of value and therefore a good starting point.
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Sairam
5.0
·Reviewed May 6, 2019
Great course. The Assignment helps to reinforce concepts taught.
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Luca
1.0
·Reviewed May 27, 2019
The proposed template has different fields from the rubric, so basically it's not a template.
Don't follow it if you want to pass the assignment because if don't, there will not be anyone to correct your assignment again.
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Muhammad
5.0
·Reviewed May 27, 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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Andreas
3.0
·Reviewed Apr 30, 2019
The topic and the presentation is very good.
One star less because of questions/answers which are not part of the lecture.
One star less because of the rating for the assignment does not fully match (i.e. estimation: compare to the WBS and Gantt Chart but both will not be available / not be uploaded)
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Vinod
1.0
·Reviewed May 30, 2020
Course is good. However, certificate issued is mentioned as '...online non-credit course...' create confusion. Such words should not be included in certificate, rather such info (credit, non-credit etc.) should be on back-end. Just issue simple certificate that online course including assignments and exam is successfully completed by Mr. X which is offered by RICE University USA on Coursera. It does not make any sense to write that the course is credit, non-credit etc. I am not happy with certificate issued.
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Fernando
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 28, 2019
I am preparing for the PMI exam and this course does a fantastic job covering big concepts of the test.
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Daniel
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 14, 2017
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Воронцов
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 10, 2021
Хороший и очень практически полезный курс, некоторые навыки пришлось интуитивно домысливать (лектор в видео излагает в усеченном виде, сильно помогает литература и благо она у меня есть), но сама тема и полученные знания очень ценны.
Большая просьба к организаторам - предоставлять литературу в объеме курса в доступ для ознакомления.
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Ikenna
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 12, 2024
This course is very rich and practical oriented. Most pertinent project management tools were treated. Again, the assignment is very engaging with rich practical contents.
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Karan
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 23, 2020
This was good course and there is detail explanation video on project which is helpful to understand the concept
Thanks
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Udara
5.0
·Reviewed May 6, 2020
Very good for beginners to learn the project management. Not only this course other two causes are very important .
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Fazla
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 29, 2020
This is a very good course for Scope, Time and Cost Management sectors in the Engineering Project Management field.
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Javier
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 9, 2020
excellent hands on project, it is the best way to learn a very important skill, its not just videos and quizzes,
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Vincenzo
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 11, 2021
Great Course! I done experience of editing Documentation P Management thanks the guided structure of the course
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Swarna
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 14, 2018
Very good course. I would surely recommend it to people who are interested in project management
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Marwan
5.0
·Reviewed May 22, 2020
Amazing course with very well planned content & superbly delivered by experienced instructors!
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S.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 11, 2018
I really liked it very much. It is challenging but worth taking a look at the cost management.