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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-27
Earned Value and Project Dashboards
For: Project managers, project controllers, monitoring and evaluation officers and members of project management offices who report to a steering committee.
Learning outcomes
- Measure a project's progress and calculate the indicators of the earned value method.
- Analyse schedule and cost variances and estimate the cost at completion.
- Build a project dashboard and a decision-oriented progress report.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Measuring progress: methods, milestones, percentage complete; reliability of progress data. |
| Week 2 | The earned value method in depth: variances, performance indices, earned value applied to schedules, estimate at completion, reliability of forecasts; exercises in a virtual lab. |
| Week 3 | Project dashboard and progress report: choice of indicators, visualisation, alerts; multi-project consolidation. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: dashboard for an off-track project and recommendations to the steering committee. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): dashboard for an off-track project, using fictitious data, and recommendations to the steering committee; online knowledge-check quiz (30%).
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Change Control and the Steering Committee
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-27C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Change control: change request, impact analysis, decision, updating of baselines.
- Presenting to the steering committee: message, recommendations, decisions expected.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Experience in project monitoring assessed on application; calculation of the basic earned value indices is assumed to be known. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Project Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.