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UW Extension Courses

Course 1: Project Planning and Organization

Topics Include:

• Team rules and communications planning
• Project lifecycle strategy for biotech and requirements management
• Risk management processes
• WBS, project estimating and tasking
• Project scheduling
• Contract and procurement management
• Costing, budgeting, cash flows and lifecycle planning

Course 2: Project Execution, Monitoring and Control

Topics Include:

• Project staffing and management
• Change management
• Progress reporting
• Monitoring and control
• Project closeout and transition planning

UC San Diego Extension Courses

Course 3: Project Management within a Scientific Environment

Topics Include:

• Timeline and metrics in research
• Working with research scientists
• Scientific culture, communications and teams
• Organizational structures to enhance the success of R&D projects
• Growing knowledge-based assets

Course 4: Applying Project Management Principles to Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Product Development

Topics include:

• Biomedical and pharmaceutical product development as a project
• Regulation as a critical project constraint
• Quality assurance systems
• From bench to development
• Pharmaceutical product development
• Biomedical product development
• Manufacturing
• Quality audits and monitoring