MA6082 Management of Project Plan, Schedule and Resources

Course Provider

School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

Certification

Continuing Education and Training Certificate

Academic Unit

3

Introduction

This course introduces concepts of project planning, scheduling and resource management, understanding of how principles, methods, and tools of the management of project plan, schedule and resources apply to the management of projects.

This course is part of:

- Graduate Certificate in Project Management
- FlexiMasters in Project Management

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This course places project controls, particularly in respect of time, as the core of the Project Management process and ensure that students understand and apply appropriate techniques to control the schedule and resource of the overall project. Content covered include project scope definition, work break down structure (WBS), network scheduling (CPA) techniques, scheduling of resources, and techniques of project monitoring and control. New techniques such as critical chain project management and agile project management are introduced.
1. To gain an understanding of the importance of project scope definition and learn to use scope and requirements to create work breakdown structure (WBS) to actual projects.
2. Learn the application of WBS for effective project planning through application.
3. Understand the technique of network scheduling and CPA and its application to actual projects in the student’s own organization.
4. Learn how to apply the technique of scheduling resources to projects.
5. To apply the techniques of project monitoring and control as a measure of project delivery and performance.
6. Learn how to reduce project duration during a project using “project crashing” techniques.
7. Application of the concepts of planning and resource scheduling concepts to actual projects in the student’s own organization.

Project Engineers, Project Managers, Software Development Managers, Business Analysts and/or Non-managers who desire to move to Project Management Related roles.

Learners are strongly recommended to complete MA6081 Fundamentals of Project Management as the pre-requisite.

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Standard Course Fee: S$3,924

SSG Funding Support

 Course fee

Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes

 

BEFORE funding & GST

AFTER funding & 9% GST

Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding)

S$3,600

S$1,177.20

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

S$457.20

SCs aged ≥ 40 years old
SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES)
(Up to 90% funding)

  • Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
  • NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.

 

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Assoc Prof Sivakumar Appa Iyer

Dr. Sivakumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Faculty Fellow of Singapore - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alliance (SMA-MST programme). He was at Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore prior to this appointment.

He has many years of industrial and research experience in the UK prior to the post in Singapore in 1993. He received a Bachelors of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and a PhD in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from University of Bradford, UK. He has made many contributions at international conferences and journals (over 48 international journal papers and over 66 international conference proceedings papers, one Book on Management Research Methodology). He has trained and supervised a number of PhD students (7 graduated PhD students) and many Master’s level students. He leads a research group in Operations Research which focuses on the area of in Manufacturing Systems and Health Systems.

Dr. Sivakumar currently serves as the Director of the NTU Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus (URECA) programme (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ureca/). Dr. Sivakumar was formerly the Associate Chair Graduate Studies School at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU from 2009-2012 and the Chairman of the school’s Engineering Innovation and Design (EID) programme from 2002-2008.
COURSE TITLEACADEMIC UNIT
MA6081 Fundamentals of Project Management3
MA6083 Project Budget and Cost Management3
MA6084 Procurement and Contract Management in Projects3
MA6085 Organization Culture and Leadership in Projects3

Listed courses are:

  • Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Project Management (total 9AUs) and FlexiMasters in Project Management (total 15AUs).
  • SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved.

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