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Project Management Series

Duration: Approx. 24 hours

This product is an online product and is a Single user, 1 Year licence.

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Overview:

This series provides a detailed examination of project management concepts and strategies. It discusses the seven components of a management system and the five phases of the project life cycle, and looks at factors that affect cost and quality. The project manager's role is explored in detail, and strategies for defining the project are examined. Tasks such as developing the Work Breakdown Structure, estimating and scheduling resources, scheduling computations, and tracking project activities are discussed. The close-out phase of a project is also covered. Other topics include formalizing project management standards, developing a project team, and strategies for becoming a more effective project manager.

This series is for anyone wanting to learn about project management. It can also be helpful in preparing for the Project Management Institute project management certification.

Learn To:

The Project Management Series contains the following courses:

Project Management Overview provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Understanding the Project Manager's Role explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Defining the Problem describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement. In addition, it explains the detrimental impact that bypassing this step has. It also distinguishes between different types of problems and possible methods for identifying them. Finally, it describes the Project Charter and how to create it. This course describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement. In addition, it explains the detrimental impact that bypassing this step has. It also distinguishes between different types of problems and possible methods for identifying them. Finally, it describes the Project Charter and how to create it.

Determining the Strategy defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Developing the Work Breakdown Structure describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Estimating and Scheduling Resources explains estimating and scheduling concepts, provides guidelines for estimating and scheduling, and describes the advantage of project management tools such as Microsoft Project. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Understanding Scheduling Computations explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a project network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart. This course explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a project network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart.

Tracking Project Activities describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Closing Out the Project explains the close-out phase of a project and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Formalizing Project Management Standards provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Developing Project Teams describes project team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a project team. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager. This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management.

Objectives

Project Management Overview

How components can be tailored to large or small projects

The four constraints on any project

Understanding the Project Manager's Role

Duties and responsibilities of the project manager

What traits and abilities a project manager must posses to be effective

Understand problems inherent in assuming multiple roles

Defining the Problem

find the causes and solutions for problems that may come up during the life of a project

Determining the Strategy

Use best methods to determine your project strategy

Identify and manage risks associated with the strategy

Determine how to sell your strategy idea to fellow project members

Developing the Work Breakdown Structure

Identify project tasks by developing a WBS

Sequence tasks using different methods of network diagramming

Estimating and Scheduling Resources

Use different methods for estimating tasks

Refer to archives of similar projects

Do a trial run of a task

Compile estimates and complete your schedule

Put together an implementation plan, or work plan

Use helpful tools such as project management software making the scheduling process easier and less time consuming

Create the network diagram on paper

Understanding Scheduling Computations

Determine the critical path of a project

Draw an activity-on-arrow (AOA) diagram based on an activity-on-node (AON) diagram and display project tasks in a Gantt chart

reduce multiple critical paths to a single path

adjust a project schedule when a project must be completed earlier than planned

Tracking Project Activities

Know how control is actually achieved in a project

Closing Out the Project

Show final verification and approval of the project's results

Prepare for the shipment of any products you have produced

Produce a project's final report and lessons to be learnt

Formalizing Project Management Standards

Refer to project roles and responsibilities rather than names of individuals

Identify the five phases of a project

Demonstrate advantages of meeting the ISO standards for certification

Developing Project Teams

measure various thinking styles, which is helpful when assigning roles and responsibilities

assess your own leadership abilities

Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness

Examine your values and how to use them to guide you in using your time

Improve your ability to give formal presentations to stakeholders

Make your written communication more direct and effective

Further your career as a project manager by pursuing the project management certification

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