Overview

Included in degrees & certificates

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Corequisites

• SE3100

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Construct a project work breakdown structure (WBS) provided the scope and deliverables of a project.
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of various organizational structures and design a project organization tailored to a project.
• Estimate an overall project cost using analogy and parametric methods and a detailed probabilistic cost estimate using analytical and simulation methods.
• Determine burdened labor costs considering benefits and overhead and justify cost estimates.
• Create a network project schedule, taking into account the probabilistic nature of task durations, to determine the critical path and available slack.
• Understand the two main types of contracts and determine the profit cost relationship for various contracts with fees.
• Create a time-phased budget, combining project schedule and cost estimates, to track project status.
• Perform Earned Value Management (EVM) as a control mechanism on a project given its current status and predict the estimated cost and time to complete.
• Perform a risk assessment on a project using both qualitative and quantitative methods and generate a risk registry detailing the risks.
• Understand the basic principles of configuration management and use a digital engineering (model-based systems engineering) tool to help perform configuration management and requirements management.
• Define key concepts involved with project management such as what is a project, why use project management, what does a project manager do, and what defines project success and failure.
• Define key processes and concepts of project management such as planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and communicating.
• Create the main components of a Project Management Plan (PMP) that demonstrates mastery of the fundamentals of engineering project management for product development.