Project Management: Costs, Risk, Quality, and Compliance
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Project Management: Costs, Risk, Quality, and Compliance
This course is part of Project Management: Applying Predictive and Adaptive Methods Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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In this course, you will plan project costs, plan for project risks, and plan for project quality and compliance.
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January 2026
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this course, you'll continue developing your project management skills by establishing project costs and cost baselines, reconciling funding and costs, and determining the burn rate for adaptive teams. You'll also create a risk management plan, identify risks and triggers, analyze risks, and develop a risk response plan. Then, you'll deliver project results and verify compliance requirements.
This is the second course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you have a recent version of Microsoft Word and Excel installed in order to open the course data files. The course setup instructions provided in the first course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
At this point in the planning of your project, you have used the Predictive and Adaptive methods for creating a project schedule and an initial Release Plan. Along with scheduling, sound project management requires the ability to accurately estimate the cost of the project. In this lesson, you will learn about costs analysis and budgets in Predictive projects and burn rates in Adaptive projects to monitor the costs as the project is executed.
What's included
1 reading7 plugins
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
- ⚠️READ THIS FIRST⚠️•5 minutes
7 plugins•Total 100 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Establish Project Costs•20 minutes
- Establish the Cost Baseline•20 minutes
- Reconcile Funding and Costs•20 minutes
- Determine the Burn Rate for Adaptive Teams•20 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Reviewing Project Costs•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You created a budgeting process for your project and developed cost estimates and budgets. Project risk is another important factor to plan for in both Predictive and Adaptive projects. In this lesson, you will plan for project risks so you can identify and mitigate those risks.
What's included
7 plugins
7 plugins•Total 160 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Create a Risk Management Plan•35 minutes
- Identify Risks and Triggers•35 minutes
- Analyze Risks•35 minutes
- Develop a Risk Response Plan•35 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Reviewing Risk Management Planning•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
At this stage of the project planning, you have planned for time, cost, and risks in Predictive and Adaptive projects. You will continue planning for your project by focusing on quality and compliance. In this lesson, you will plan for project quality and compliance with standards, rules, and regulations.
What's included
5 plugins
5 plugins•Total 90 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Deliver the Desired Project Results•35 minutes
- Verify Compliance Requirements•35 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Reviewing Quality and Compliance Planning•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 reading1 assignment
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
- Course Summary•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
- Course Assessment•15 minutes
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