Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process.

The primary constraints are scope, time, quality budget. The secondaryand more ambitiouschallenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives

Course Syllabus

1. History
2. Project management types
3. Approaches of project management
   1. Benefits realization management
   2. Critical chain project management
   3. Earned value management
   4. Iterative and incremental project management
   5. Lean project management
   6. Phased approach
   7. Process-based management
   8. Project production management
   9. Product-based planning
4. Process groups
   1. Initiating
   2. Planning
   3. Executing
   4. Project Documentation
   5. Monitoring and controlling
   6. Closing
   7. Project controlling and project control systems
5. Characteristics of projects, Project Complexity
6. Project managers
7. Project management success criteria
8. Risk management
   1. Work breakdown structure9International standards
   2. Project portfolio management
   3. Project management software
   4. Virtual project management

Tutors are guided to allocate and complete the minimum 132 credit hours before project submission and nomination for certificate from American Certification Services Global program. Training reference in Tutor guides may be provided to each delegate.