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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:39:06 -0700
From: "Goodin, Bill" <
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Subject: UCLA short course on "Project Management Principles and Practice"
> On July 7-10, 1998, UCLA Extension will present the short course,
> "Project Management Principles and Practice", on the UCLA campus
> in Los Angeles.
>
> The instructor is Arnold M. Ruskin, PhD, PE, PMP, Partner, Claremont
> Consulting Group and Technical Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
>
> Each participant receives the text, "What Every Engineer Should Know
> About Project Management", 2nd Edition, Arnold M. Ruskin and W.
> Eugene Estes, 1995, and extensive course notes.
>
> This course is for project managers and personnel, functional managers
>
> whose staff participate in projects, and executives to whom project
> managers report.
>
> Corporate personnel increasingly work on "one-time" assignments called
>
> projects. These efforts require particular approaches, methods, and
> systems for their planning, execution, and control. The purpose of
> this
> course is to develop insight into the special characteristics of
> projects
> and the tools and techniques needed to manage them.
>
> Specific objectives for the course are:
> o to understand the nature of project management
> o to understand the importance of end-item focus, careful
> planning,
> appropriate control, open and timely communication, and interproject
> coordination and prioritization
> o to gain an appreciation of project planning, control, and other
> useful tools
> o to understand alternative organizational structures, elements of
> leadership, and ways of maximizing personal and project effectiveness.
>
> Specific topics include:
> Nature of projects, Group exercise: anatomy of a project, Duties of
> the
> project manager, Project planning techniques, Measuring cost,
> schedule,
> and technical performance, Project control techniques, Implementing
> planning and control techniques, Project organizations and staffing,
> Project management in multiproject and matrix environments, Fiedler's
> contingency model of team effectiveness, Team-building, Project
> startup
> meetings, Case study: integrated project management, Risk
> management, Project management exercise: complex project
> decision-making.
>
> Prerequisite:
> Firsthand involvement in or responsibility for projects or some
> portion
> thereof.
>
> UCLA Extension has presented this highly successful short course
> since 1982.
>
> The course fee is $1295, which includes the text and course materials.
> These course materials are for participants only, and are not for
> sale.
>
> For additional information and a complete course description, please
> contact Marcus Hennessy at:
> (310) 825-1047
> (310) 206-2815 fax
>
mhenness@unex.ucla.edu
>
http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses/
>
> This course may also be presented on-site at company locations.