PMD 913

Project Progress and Cost Control

Course Introduction

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Graduate School of Business

Prof. Hesham Bassioni

PhD, ME, MBA, PMP

May 2022
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◼ Textbook:
“Practice Standard for Earned Value Management, Project Management
Institute (PMI), PA, USA, 2019.

◼ References:
“A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – PMBOK
Guide”, Project Management Institute (PMI), PA, USA, 7th Edition,
2021.
Budd, C. and Budd, C. “A Practical Guide to Earned Value Project
Management”, Management Concepts, VA, USA.
Hughes, Robert and Cotterel “Software Project Management”, McGraw
Hill, 4th ed., 2005.
Kerzner, H. “Project Management – A Systems Approach to Planning,
Scheduling and Controlling”, 9th ed., Wiley, 2007.
Meredith, J. and Mantel, S. “Project Management – A Managerial
Approach”, 5th ed., Wiley, 2005.

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◼ Lecture notes
Adapted from textbook, references and other project management
literatures.

◼ Grading (Subject to change within the course)

Attendance (cameras opened) 10%
Assignments 20%
Project 30%
Final Exam 40%

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◼ Course Outline:
Module 1 - Introduction to project monitoring and control
Module 2 - Project time control
Module 3 - Project cost control
Module 4 - Earned value analysis & Earned Schedule analysis
Module 5 - Key Performance Indicators & Project Monitoring
Computerized Project Control

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Lec. Saturday Sunday
Tentative Schedule Topic(s) Assignments
1 14 May, 2022 22 May, 2022 Introduction to Project M&C

2 28 May, 2022 29 May, 2022 Project Time Control Problem Set 1

3 04 June, 2022 12 June, 2022 Project Cost Control Problem Set 2

16 June, 2022
11 June, 2022 Baseline submittal
4 Thursday 7-10 Computerized Scheduling
(online) Due 23 June, 2022
(online)

5 18 June, 2022 19 June, 2022 Project Earned Value Analysis Problem Set 3

6 25 June, 2022 26 June, 2022 Project Earned Schedule Analysis Problem Set 4 & 5

21 June, 2022
Key Performance Indicators & Project
7 02 July, 2022 Tuesday 7-10 KPI Report
Monitoring
(Online)
08 July, 2022 Computerized Time Control
8 Friday 2-6 07 July, 2022 Computerized Resource & Budget
(online) Computerized Cost Control & EVA
16 July, 2022 03 July, 2022 Final Exam (Lectures EVA, ESA, KPI –
9
12-2 7-9 problem sets 3, 4 & 5)
PMD 913 Project Progress & Cost Control Term Project
10 23Prof.
July, Hesham
2022 Bassioni
17 July, 2022 Term Project Introduction Submittal in Intro. - 5
respective due dates