PMDP Overview

Each of the five PMDP modules consists of approximately 16 hours of instruction, with each module broken down into two eight-hour sessions, are designed to sharpen and enhance skills, increase effectiveness as a project manager and are interactive. Courses are highly interactive, with participants engaging in a variety of group and instructor-led activities designed to sharpen and enhance essential project management skills, increase overall effectiveness as a project manager and provide tactics and strategies for ensuring project success.

Module 4 of 5 

Contract Administration – May 1-2, 2014

This course will provide an understanding of how basic contracts are structured, how different types of contracts are used, and how project documentation relates to effective contracting for early-career project managers.

Course Objectives
On completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss how basic contracts are structured, the different types of contracts used in construction projects,   and how project documentation relates to effective contracting
• Identify important contract law and language and how they are related to project risk
• Distinguish between agent and independent contracts, torts and contractual liability cases, and the difference between criminal and civil proceedings
• Identify how different project delivery methods use different contracting strategies
• Describe the process for contract amendments, changes, extensions, and final terms
• Defend the importance of dispute resolution and good-faith negotiation in resolving contract disputes
• Distinguish between partial and material breaches and understanding the significance of termination, bankruptcy, and breach of contract claims

Instructor: Al Sanchez, The Sanchez Group & Guest Speakers