Overview
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Learn what it takes to deliver projects successfully. Explore the basics of project management, from building a project plan to managing progress.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Deliver successful projects
- What you should know
- What is a project?
- What is project management?
- What it takes to be a project manager
- The project management life cycle
- Traditional vs. agile project management
- How organizational structure affects projects
- How organizational culture affects projects
- Project management software options
- Challenge: Organization
- Initiate a project
- Identify project stakeholders
- Analyze project stakeholders
- Identify the project goal
- Define project objectives
- Choose a strategy
- Gather requirements
- Identify project deliverables and success criteria
- Identify project assumptions and risks
- Prepare a project scope statement
- Create a project charter
- Challenge: Project charter
- Project planning overview
- What is a work breakdown structure?
- Build a work breakdown structure
- How to create work packages
- Estimate time and cost
- How to choose the best estimate
- Create a resource management plan
- Build a project schedule
- Develop a project budget
- Identify risks
- Create a risk management plan
- Set up a communication plan
- Develop a quality plan
- How to set up a change management plan
- How to plan procurement
- Processes for procuring resources
- How to obtain approval to proceed
- Challenge: Change
- Put tasks in sequence
- How to assign resources to tasks
- Learn to use milestones
- Make a realistic schedule
- Understand the critical path
- Understand the critical chain method
- How to shorten a schedule
- Document the baseline
- Challenge: Network diagram
- What is agile project management?
- The agile project management life cycle
- Plan an iteration
- Manage the explore stage
- Handle the adapt and close stages
- Challenge: Agile
- How to run a project
- Techniques for communicating effectively
- Run effective meetings
- Challenge: Agenda
- Manage team resources
- Understand team dynamics
- How to manage virtual teams
- How to manage technical teams
- Challenge: Team
- How to gather data
- How to manage project change
- Learn how to manage project scope
- Monitor and control risks
- Understand earned value analysis
- Evaluate progress
- Learn how to solve problems
- How to get a project back on track
- Challenge: Change request
- Close a project
- How to obtain customer acceptance
- Document lessons learned
- How to prepare a close-out report
- Learn how to close and transition projects
- Challenge: Acceptance
- Next steps
