Project Management Fundamentals

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Course curriculum

1. Deliver successful projects
2. What you should know
1. What you should know
2. What is project management?
3. What it takes to be a project manager
4. The waterfall project management lifecycle
5. The agile project management lifecycle
6. How organizational structure affects projects
7. How organizational culture affects projects
8. Project management software options
9. Challenge: Organization
1. Initiate a project
2. Identify project stakeholders
3. Analyze project stakeholders
4. Identify the project goal
5. Define project objectives
6. Gather requirements
7. Identify project deliverables and success criteria
8. Identify project assumptions and risks
9. Prepare a project scope statement
10. Create a project charter
11. Challenge: Project charter
1. Project planning overview
2. What is a work breakdown structure?
3. Build a work breakdown structure
4. How to create work packages
5. Estimate time and cost
6. How to choose the best estimate
7. Create a resource management plan
8. Build a project schedule
9. Develop a project budget
10. Identify risks
11. Create a risk management plan
12. Set up a communication plan
13. Develop a quality plan
14. How to set up a change management plan
15. How to plan procurement
16. How to obtain approval to proceed
17. Challenge: Change
1. Put tasks in sequence
2. How to assign resources to tasks
3. Learn to use milestones
4. Make a realistic schedule
5. Understand the critical path
6. How to shorten a schedule
7. Document the baseline
8. Challenge: Network diagram
1. What is agile project management?
2. The agile project management lifecycle
3. Plan an iteration
4. Manage the explore stage
5. Handle the adapt and close stages
6. Challenge: Agile
1. Kicking off and managing project work
2. Techniques for communicating effectively
3. Run effective meetings
1. Manage team resources
2. Understand team dynamics
3. How to manage virtual teams
4. Challenge: Team
1. How to gather data
2. How to manage project change
3. Learn how to manage project scope
4. Monitor and control risks
5. How and when to use earned value analysis
6. Evaluate progress
7. How to get a project back on track
8. Challenge: Change request
1. Close a project
2. How to obtain customer acceptance
3. Document lessons learned
4. How to prepare a close-out report
5. Learn how to close and transition projects
6. Challenge: Acceptance
1. Create organizational value through a value delivery system
2. Principle-based project management
3. Focus on project outcomes through performance domains
4. Tailor your approach to meet project and organizational needs
5. Models, methods, and artifacts
1. Next steps

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Project Management Fundamentals

Course curriculum

Introduction

Module 1: Get to Know Project Management

Module 2: First Things First

Module 3: Develop a Project Plan

Module 4: Build a Project Schedule

Module 5: An Overview of Agile Project Management

Module 6: While You Run the Project

Module 7: Work with Teams

Module 8: Monitoring and Controlling Processes and Performance

Module 9: Close the Project

Module 10: Changes to PMBOK Guide - Seventh Edition

Conclusion

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