Mega Project Management Part Ii

CONTRACTING AND CONTROLLING

What you'll learn

Define the roles and responsibilities of a Contracting Management

Understand the different contract types and the ways they are used

Define the roles and responsibilities of the Contract Administration Management

Define the roles and responsibilities of the Project Control Management

Understand the project control methodology related with the types of projects and the areas under control

Define the roles and responsibilities of the Cost Control Management

Understand the cost control methodology in mega projects

Requirements

The course is easy to take, no quiz or home work is given, and it only requires a good listener with interest in the areas of contracting, contract administration, project control and cost control. The student may take notes at any moment and make questions if something isn't clear.

Description

The course, prepared by LATINBIS LLC, introduces the students to the main concepts of mega project management. Includes the contracting management responsibilities, the types of contracts commonly used in the oil and gas sector and their characteristics; the contract administration responsibilities and a flow scheme of the monthly progress report and invoice issuing; the project control subjects from the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), through the progress measurement of engineering, procurement and construction, including the reporting models based on real projects, and the schedule setting and planning; and the cost control responsibilities, considerations, and reporting. It includes highlights and recommendations from the experience of the instructor. Is the last part of the Mega Project Management sections, and includes the final recommendations and conclusions. Is instructed by LATINBIS LLC founder and CEO, Valeria Negretti, a highly experienced project manager with more than 39 years in oil, gas and energy project execution and business development. LATINBIS LLC, is a company founded to render Business Investment Support for project development in the oil, gas and energy areas and specializes on the Latin American countries. The students will end up entering a full set of courses specially prepared by instructors with real experience on the different areas of the project management.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Contracting

Lecture 2 Contracting

Lecture 3 Contract Administration

Section 3: Project control

Lecture 4 Project control

Section 4: Cost Control

Lecture 5 Cost Control

For any one that intends to enters the project area or is already in a project but needs to learn about other areas of responsibility.,Is also for the future project managers that shall learn about the subjects of this course.,For the actual project managers that could use some of the recommendations given from a manager with many years of experience.