In this course, you'll continue developing your project management skills by establishing project costs and cost baselines, reconciling funding and costs, and determining the burn rate for adaptive teams. You'll also create a risk management plan, identify risks and triggers, analyze risks, and develop a risk response plan. Then, you'll deliver project results and verify compliance requirements.
Project Management: Costs, Risk, Quality, and Compliance
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Project Management: Costs, Risk, Quality, and Compliance
This course is part of Project Management: Applying Predictive and Adaptive Methods Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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6 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
In this course, you will plan project costs, plan for project risks, and plan for project quality and compliance.
Skills you'll gain
- Cost Estimation
- Budget Management
- Agile Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- Leadership
- Compliance Management
- Project Management Software
- Project Controls
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
- Microsoft Excel
- Risk Analysis
- Project Planning
- Microsoft Word
- Cost Reduction
- Project Risk Management
- Quality Assurance
- Cost Management
- Risk Management
- Leadership Development
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January 2026
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Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
At this point in the planning of your project, you have used the Predictive and Adaptive methods for creating a project schedule and an initial Release Plan. Along with scheduling, sound project management requires the ability to accurately estimate the cost of the project. In this lesson, you will learn about costs analysis and budgets in Predictive projects and burn rates in Adaptive projects to monitor the costs as the project is executed.
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You created a budgeting process for your project and developed cost estimates and budgets. Project risk is another important factor to plan for in both Predictive and Adaptive projects. In this lesson, you will plan for project risks so you can identify and mitigate those risks.
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At this stage of the project planning, you have planned for time, cost, and risks in Predictive and Adaptive projects. You will continue planning for your project by focusing on quality and compliance. In this lesson, you will plan for project quality and compliance with standards, rules, and regulations.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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