PMD 913

Project Progress and Cost Control

Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Graduate School of Business

Prof. Hesham Bassioni

PhD, ME, MBA, PMP

April 2015
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Textbook:
“Practice Standard for Earned Value Management, 2nd Edition, Project
Management Institute (PMI), PA, USA, 2011.

References:
“A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge”, Project
Management Institute (PMI), PA, USA, 5th Edition, 2013.
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.
Verzuh, E. “The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management”, 2nd ed.,
Wiley, 2005.

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

Grading
Assignments 25%
Project 25%
Exams 50%

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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
Module 5 - Earned Schedule analysis
Module 6 - Key Performance Indicators

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Session Date
1 17/04/2015 - Friday
2 24/04/2015 - Friday
3 02/05/2015 - Saturday
4 02/05/2015 - Saturday
5 08/05/2015 - Friday
6 15/05/2015 - Friday
7 22/05/2015 - Friday
8 29/05/2015 - Friday
9 05/06/2015 - Friday
10 12/06/2015 - Friday
13/06/2015 - Saturday
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Tentative Schedule
Topic(s) Assignments
Introduction to Project
Monitoring & Control Problem Set 1
Project Time Control
Project Cost Control Problem Set 2
Computerized Time Control
Project Earned Value Analysis Problem Set 3
Mid Term Exam (Time & Cost
Control)
Project Earned Schedule Analysis Problem Set 4 & 5
Key Performance Indicators KPI Report
Computerized Earned Value
Analysis
Final Exam
Computerized Earned Value
Analysis
Term Project Due
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