Title: Learning Objectives
Course: System Analysis and Design: Project Mana gement (17338) > Section: Competency Modules

After completing this module, you will be able to:

1. Explain the importance of project schedules and good project time management
2. Define activities as the basis for developing project schedules
3. Describe how project managers use network diagrams and dependencies to assist in activity sequencing
4. Describe the relationship between estimating resources and project schedules
5. Explain how various tools and techniques help project managers perform activity duration estimating
6. Use a Gantt chart for planning and tracking schedule information, find the critical path for a project, and describe how critical chain scheduling and
7. Describe the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) affect schedule development
8. Discuss how reality checks and discipline are involved in controlling and managing changes to the project schedule
9. Describe how project management software can assist in project time management and review words of caution before using this software