Manage large projects by identifying their key characteristics, examining the key factors and risks that affect their performance and exploring methods to counter their impact on the successful delivery of projects.
Major Engineering Project Performance
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Major Engineering Project Performance
This course is part of Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization
Instructor: Dr Giorgio Locatelli
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What you'll learn
Understand the key phases of a project life cycle
Discriminate between projects, programmes and portfolios and identify the key characteristics of major projects
Define forms of bias and strategic misinterpretation and ways of mitigating against them
Analyse the cost and time performance indicators of major projects
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