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Becoming a Cost-Estimating Expert

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Price: Instructor Led Call for details | Virtual Classroom  $650
Details: *This is a 1 day course

Description

If your project costs routinely go over budget, your credibility as a project manager is jeopardized. The key to avoiding budget overruns is having accurate cost estimates at the beginning of your project. This short course will help you understand cost estimating and give you some practical cost-estimating techniques and processes. You'll experiment with different estimating techniques so you can identify which method works best for you and when to use each.

Headset not included.

Highlights

  • What cost estimating is
  • The importance of accurate cost estimates
  • Methods of cost estimating
  • How to generate a cost estimate
  • Your role as a project manager
  • Audience

    PMP-certified project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members who want to continue to develop their skills and renew their PMP certification.

    Prerequisites

    This course does not require a prerequisite

    Outline

    1. Types of costs

    2. Different estimating techniques

    3. Selecting the right estimating technique for your organization

    4. Validating cost estimates

    Location Date
    Virtual Classroom e-Learning 09/09-09/09/2010

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