Master Project Planning and Control Techniques
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Master Project Planning and Control Techniques
This course is part of Project Management Frameworks, Planning & Control Specialization
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What you'll learn
Apply project planning, execution, monitoring, and control techniques across project lifecycles.
Analyze cost, quality, scope, and schedule performance using EVM and project metrics.
Develop integration and change management strategies to deliver successful project outcomes.
Skills you'll gain
- Project Controls
- Project Implementation
- Quality Management
- Project Planning
- Cost Containment
- Cost Estimation
- Cost Control
- Earned Value Management
- Team Performance Management
- Project Scoping
- Project Closure
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Cost Management
- Change Management
- Scheduling
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Scope Management
- Project Coordination
- Project Schedules
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June 2026
33 assignments
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There are 8 modules in this course
Master project planning, execution, monitoring, and control using practical project management techniques aligned with real-world business needs. This course provides job-ready skills in team management, quality planning, cost control, Earned Value Management, scheduling, scope management, change control, and project closure.
The course begins with building high-performance project teams, helping learners understand team management, conflict resolution, motivation, resource optimization, and foundational quality management concepts. Learners will develop the people-management skills needed to support project success. As the course progresses, learners explore quality planning, assurance, and control, followed by cost estimation, reserve analysis, budgeting, and financial control techniques. The course then introduces Earned Value Management as a powerful method for tracking project performance, forecasting outcomes, and making data-driven decisions. Advanced modules focus on schedule development, activity sequencing, duration estimation, critical path analysis, schedule optimization, project monitoring, and schedule control. Learners will understand how to analyze project data, identify delays, and apply corrective actions. The course also covers scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure creation, scope validation, baseline control, project execution, integrated change control, knowledge management, and project closure. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end, application-focused approach that combines team leadership, quality, cost, schedule, scope, EVM, and closure into one complete project control framework. By the end of the course, learners will be able to confidently plan, monitor, control, and close projects while improving delivery outcomes and organizational performance.
This module focuses on developing effective project teams by exploring team management strategies, conflict resolution techniques, and motivational theories. Learners will understand how to optimize resource utilization while fostering collaboration and engagement. It also introduces foundational quality management concepts to ensure team outputs align with project standards.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 78 minutes
- Manage Team •12 minutes
- Conflict Management•10 minutes
- Control Resources•10 minutes
- Control Resources tools and Techniues•9 minutes
- Maslows hierarchy of Needs•5 minutes
- McGregors Theory of X and Y•3 minutes
- Intoduction to Quality Management•9 minutes
- Plan Quality Management•11 minutes
- Quality Process•11 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Leading and Managing Teams•10 minutes
- Resource Optimization Techniques•10 minutes
- Foundations of Quality Management•10 minutes
- Building High-Performance Project Teams•30 minutes
This module explores the processes and tools used to plan, manage, and control quality in projects. It emphasizes continuous improvement, monitoring techniques, and cost planning fundamentals to ensure deliverables meet stakeholder expectations while maintaining efficiency.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 89 minutes
- Basic Quality Tools•7 minutes
- Manage Quality•10 minutes
- Quality Factors•12 minutes
- Control Quality•10 minutes
- How Monitoring and Controlling•10 minutes
- Introduction to Cost Management•8 minutes
- How Cost will be Planned•10 minutes
- What Parameters Needs to be Considered•9 minutes
- Estimate Cost•12 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Quality Tools and Practices•10 minutes
- Quality Monitoring and Control•10 minutes
- Cost Planning Fundamentals•10 minutes
- Quality Planning, Assurance & Control•30 minutes
This module provides in-depth knowledge of cost estimation techniques, reserve analysis, and budget development. Learners will understand how to create accurate financial plans and implement effective cost control strategies to maintain project profitability and discipline.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 63 minutes
- Estimate Cost Continue•7 minutes
- More on Estimate Cost•7 minutes
- Cost Aggregation and Reserve Analysis•6 minutes
- Determine Budget•10 minutes
- Determine Budget Continue•8 minutes
- Control Cost•7 minutes
- Control Cost Contiue•12 minutes
- Introduction to Earned Value Measurement•3 minutes
- Example of EVM•4 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Advanced Cost Estimation•10 minutes
- Budget Development•10 minutes
- Cost Control Techniques•10 minutes
- Cost Estimation and Budgeting•30 minutes
This module introduces Earned Value Management (EVM) as a powerful performance measurement tool. Learners will explore key metrics, forecasting methods, and scheduling fundamentals to assess project health and make data-driven decisions.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 66 minutes
- EVM Calculation Wall Example•6 minutes
- EVM Calculation CV SV CPI SPI•7 minutes
- EVM Calculation EAC ETC VAC TCPI•8 minutes
- EVM Estimate at Completion(EAC)•6 minutes
- Summary of EVM Values•6 minutes
- Introduction to Schedule Management•6 minutes
- Development Approach•9 minutes
- Plan Schedule Management Tools and Techniques•6 minutes
- Define Activities•12 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- EVM Calculations and Metrics•10 minutes
- Forecasting and Performance Analysis•10 minutes
- Scheduling Fundamentals•10 minutes
- Earned Value Management (EVM) Mastery•30 minutes
This module focuses on developing and optimizing project schedules through activity sequencing, duration estimation, and advanced scheduling techniques. It highlights methods to improve efficiency, reduce delays, and ensure timely project delivery.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 77 minutes
- Define Activities Continue•5 minutes
- Sequence Activities•7 minutes
- Sequence Activities Continue•10 minutes
- Estimate Activity Duration•10 minutes
- Parametric Estimate•10 minutes
- Develop Schedule•10 minutes
- Schedule Network Analysis•8 minutes
- Schedule Compression•8 minutes
- Monitoring the Project and Managing Changes•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Activity Planning and Sequencing•10 minutes
- Time Estimation Techniques•10 minutes
- Advanced Scheduling Methods•10 minutes
- Schedule Development and Optimization•30 minutes
This module emphasizes monitoring project performance, analyzing work data, and controlling schedules. It also covers critical path analysis and requirement gathering to ensure projects remain aligned with defined objectives and stakeholder expectations.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 80 minutes
- Work Perform Data•9 minutes
- Control Schedule Tools•8 minutes
- Precedence Diagramming Method•4 minutes
- Critical Path Method Example•11 minutes
- Plan Scope Management•9 minutes
- Creation of Scope Management Plan•9 minutes
- Collect Requirements•10 minutes
- Collect Requirements Tools and Technique•11 minutes
- Create Scope Statement•9 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Performance Tracking•10 minutes
- Critical Path and Scheduling Techniques•10 minutes
- Requirement and Scope Definition•10 minutes
- Project Monitoring and Schedule Control•30 minutes
This module explores scope definition, validation, and control processes. Learners will understand how to create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), manage scope baselines, and integrate planning elements to ensure project clarity and control.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videos•Total 86 minutes
- Define Scope•9 minutes
- Constraints and Assumptions•9 minutes
- Create WBS•8 minutes
- Scope Baseline Gets Created•9 minutes
- Validate Scope•11 minutes
- Control Scope•8 minutes
- Develop Project Charter•11 minutes
- Project Management Prespective•11 minutes
- Develop Project Management Plan•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Scope Definition and Planning•10 minutes
- Scope Validation and Control•10 minutes
- Project Initiation and Planning•10 minutes
- Scope Management and Work Breakdown•30 minutes
This module covers project execution, knowledge management, monitoring, change control, and closure processes. Learners will understand how to manage integrated project activities, implement approved changes, and successfully close projects while capturing lessons learned.
What's included
14 videos5 assignments
14 videos•Total 114 minutes
- How Subsidary Plans•8 minutes
- Baselines and Additional Plans•6 minutes
- Direct and Manage Project Work•7 minutes
- Performed in Execution Process•8 minutes
- Approve Change Requrest are Added as Input•7 minutes
- Manage Project Knowledge•9 minutes
- Project and Organization•8 minutes
- Monitor and Control Project Work•10 minutes
- Which will Communicate Data to Stakeholders•8 minutes
- Perform Integrated Change Control•9 minutes
- Perform Integrated Change Control Continue•8 minutes
- Close Project or Phase•7 minutes
- Close Project or Phase Continue•8 minutes
- Summary of Project Integration•11 minutes
5 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Execution and Knowledge Management•10 minutes
- Monitoring and Change Control•30 minutes
- Integrated Project Control•10 minutes
- Closing and Integration•10 minutes
- Project Execution, Control, and Closure•30 minutes
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