Project Management: Solving Common Project Problems

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Free Online Course: Project Management: Solving Common Project Problems provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Project Management: Solving Common Project Problems is taught by Chris Croft.

Overview
  • Professional PM trainer Chris Croft outlines techniques for addressing the most common people, quality, cost, and time-management problems that arise when working on projects.

    When you're balancing the triple constraints of project management (cost/quality/time) and trying to accomplish something new, problems are bound to crop up. In the course, project management trainer Chris Croft shows how to solve the most common problems that arise when working on projects. By breaking these issues into 4 major categories—people problems, quality problems, cost problems, and time problems—he provides helpful advice and techniques for how to handle them.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    1. Avoiding People Problems
    • Managing stakeholders who have conflicting requirements
    • Engaging team members throughout the process
    • Communication
    2. Avoiding Quality Problems
    • Ensuring customer expectations are met
    • Defining quality
    3. Avoiding Cost Problems
    • Making sure that nothing gets forgotten
    • Generating realistic estimates
    • Controlling scope creep
    • Discovering hidden overspends
    4. Avoiding Lateness Problems
    • Missing the real critical path
    • Avoiding and minimizing the effects of mistakes
    • Losing resources to other projects
    • Monitoring and adjusting the schedule
    Conclusion
    • Performing actions in sequence
    Frequently Asked Questions
    • How do I estimate tasks?
    • When should I tell the customer that the project is running late?
    • How often should I have progress meetings?