Additional Capabilities: Project Management

During my course of study, I strengthened my professional skills by taking a course in Project Management.

Building a Network Diagram

In this course of study, I did case studies of businesses that were facing challenges and made recommendations after performing root cause analysis. I learned how to diagram a critical path and map a project’s most efficient course to completion. Doing this helped me understand ways of analyzing a project and planning for effective execution beyond my previous knowledge and experience.

This is a network diagram showing forward pass, backward pass and critical path, identifying the critical path tasks to be Survey, Traffic Design, Approval, Drainage and Bid Proposal.

Calculating Earned Value Statistics

Another valuable skill I learned was how to calculate Earned Value statistics. Given limited information, we were asked to develop status reports and calculate cost variance, cost performance index and percent complete index budgeted costs.

Below is an example of an Earned Value Status report submitted showing status reports, cost variance calculations, cost performance index and percent complete index budgeted costs.