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| 1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PHASES, STRATEGIES, PERFORMANCES |
The firm and the projects. Operations and Project Management. Company-Wide Project Management (CWPM). A systemic approach: the Breakdown Structures. Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Work Packages. Variables planning & control. Sources of innovation. Design phases. Design strategies. Project and multi-project performances. Design and ISO 9000 standards. |
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| 2 PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT |
Time representation: Gantt and network diagrams. Network techniques: CPM, MPM, PERT, GERT, VERT. The Critical Path Method (CPM): task scheduling and float analysis. |
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| 3 PROJECT RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATION |
Organisational structure for Project Management. CWPM integration. The project manager role. Responsibility matrix and conflict management. Team working. |
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| 4 MULTI-PROJECT MANAGEMENT |
Project portfolio management and resource sharing. Project risk management. Product platform, derivatives, shelf innovation. |
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| 5 PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT |
Cost Estimating and project Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Cost Budgeting: Project Budget Breakdown Structure (PBBS), Baseline, Cost Accounts, CSC system criteria. Cost Control: Earned Value Method (EVM). Capital Budgeting: the project as an investment. Investiment analysis & evaluation. Project portfolio evaluation. |
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| 6 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS |
New Product Development (NPD) and Lean Design. Co-Design and Early Supplier Involvement. Variety Reduction Program (VRP) and Modularisation. Design for Manufacturability & Assembly. Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering and Rapid/Virtual Prototyping (RP/VP). Reverse Engineering (RE): Design Of Experiments (DOE), Early Problem Detector Prototyping (EPDP), Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA). Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Robust Design (RD) and Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE). Green and Life-Cycle Design. Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) for Project Management and Product Development. |
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| 7 CONTRACT MANAGEMENT / ENGINEERING-TO-ORDER |
Types of contracts. Characteristics and phases of Engineering-To-Order (ETO) contracts. Organisation and management of the ETO contracts. Project financing. ETO production management. |
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| 8 MICROSOFT PROJECT |
Basic use. |
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| 9 COMPANY SEMINARS |
Project Management presention by leading Companies. |
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