Build investment cases leaders trust: assumptions, cash flows, scenarios, and risks. Track delivery, then run post-audits for learning next time.
📌 Better control: Replace vague status updates with baselines and measurable progress.
🤝 Cleaner steering: Give project teams and sponsors a shared view of risks, changes, and decisions.
🏢 Fewer overruns: Improve visibility so drift is detected earlier and corrected faster.
Project controller and FP&A analyst tracking scope, cost, schedule, and delivery for internal or customer-facing projects.
Finance manager and business unit controller reviewing project performance and needing consistent progress and spend logic.
Knowledge: Basic project finance concepts, including budgets, commitments, and progress tracking.
Tools: Spreadsheet tool and access to project budgets, progress updates, and basic milestone or deliverable reporting.
Set baselines for scope, cost, schedule, and deliverables.
Track progress and spend using consistent deliverable logic.
Forecast and manage changes with clear governance rules.
Report exceptions and steer decisions in project forums.
Eligibility: currently not eligible
Watch time: about 3 hours
Total learning: about 4.5 hours
Estimated credits: 3.0