Courses - Project Management of Complex Systems

ESI 1.20  Master Class Project Management of Complex Systems

ESI offers a five-day master class on Project Management of Complex Systems. This project-based course exposes paticipants to tools and methodologies useful for the effective management of systems engineering and engineering management projects. This course presents the tools and techniques for project definition, work breakdown, estimating, resource planning, critical path development, scheduling, project monitoring and control, and scope management. These tools will be presented within the context of a life cycle and a systems approach. Participants will be exposed to advanced project management software. Reinforcing these fundamentals in project management, the course will introduce advanced concepts in project management, and establish the building blocks for the management of complex systems.

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Target audience
The target audience of this master class are designers, systems engineers, project managers, integrated product team members, business managers, and contract administrators. People who are involved with any aspect of system and business analysis, design and development, mission capability and business process definition and architecting, and test and verification will find this module to be useful.

Format

This course is a five-day course, where theory and practice are mixed continuously.

  • Day 1: Executive Overview; Bounding Project Scope; Leading and Managing the Project Team
  • Day 2: Work Breakdown and Organizational Structures; Task Planning; Project Network Modeling
  • Day 3: Project Management Software; Resource Leveling and Project Budget
  • Day 4: Project Control; Project Quality Management; Contracting and Sub-contracting; Risk Management
  • Day 5: Evaluating, Directing, and Closing Out a Project; Business Ethics; Course Evaluation and Wrap-up

Number of participants
Minimum: 15
Maximum: 16

The maximum number of participants is 16. Participation is possible as an individual or in small teams from the same company (typically 3 to 5 participants).

Dates
Course dates will be scheduled once at least 14 participants have subscribed

Course hours are from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM

Location
Embedded Systems Institute, TU/e Campus, Laplace-building 0.10 Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 
Costs (excluding V.A.T.)
€ 2.600 per person

Note that costs are for the timeframe from January 2010 to July 2010.
Tel. +31 (0)40 247 8216
 
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