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Get your most pressing project management question answered—in five minutes or less—with these expert tips.
Business moves fast, and project management moves faster. Many PMs donât have time to study, take classes, or read books. So how can you get better at project management? This series helps you improve your skills, learn useful tips, and get answers to common project management questionsâin short videos you can watch on your lunch break or listen to on your commute. Get quick and easy ideas for building a project plan, effectively communicating with your team, leading project meetings, and integrating agile practices. Instructor Daniel Stanton has designed this course to help all project managersânew and experienced alikeâbe more successful in their roles.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Tips for project management
- Why does project management matter?
- What does a project manager do?
- What is a project charter?
- How to get buy-in from your project team
- What are project milestones?
- Compress project timelines
- What is a RACI matrix?
- What does project management software do?
- Create a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- What is a network diagram?
- What is a critical path?
- What is a Gantt chart?
- Build a communication plan
- Ask the right project questions
- Survey tools for project management
- Data visualization for project management
- Project scorecards for reporting
- Track unexpected project issues
- How to raise project concerns
- Avoid extra project costs
- Monitor project risks
- How to use a meeting parking lot
- Manage a project crisis
- Manage budget cuts and personnel changes
- What is scope creep?
- Maintain team engagement
- Closeout a project
- What is an Agile project?
- What is a persona?
- What is a user story?
- Break a user story into tasks
- What is a Sprint?
- What does a product owner do?
- Run an Agile daily meeting
- What is acceptance testing?
- What is a project Kanban?
- What is a minimum viable product?
