Project Management: Budget and Resources

Project management skills are in high demand across many business sectors.

Learn the  earned value method and resource allocation to establish a realistic project baseline and Strategies used to effectively monitor, measure and control cost and schedule. Emphasis will be placed on applying effective methods for keeping the project budget and schedule on target, setting project standards and effective use of metrics to measure project success.

This course, taken along with the Fundamentals and Applications courses, help prepare individuals for the CAPM (Certified Associate Project Management) exam. A minimum of 23 hours of Project Management Education is required to sit for the exam. 

Tuition Assistance Available
100% funding is available for New Mexico Residents.

For questions or to discuss the tuition assistance options available, please contact Annalise Jaramillo at workforce@cnm.edu or 505-224-5206.  

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• Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for a complex project and determine management control points within the WBS.
• Demonstrate setting up Work Packages and Control Accounts.
• Develop criteria for an Earned Value system.
• Define different means of measuring progress on projects and understand which ones to select for a
  given type of project.
• Calculate Earned Value variances and efficiency factors.
• Evaluate the status of a project using Earned Value.
• Be able to calculate different project Estimates at Completion and use them to predict where the project will actually finish compared to the baseline plan.