Project Management Essential Training

The comprehensive guide for newbies to successfully learn Project Management and easily get the PMP Certification.

Language: english

Note: 4.2/5 (1,314 notes) 101,390 students

Instructor(s): Mustapha benbihi

Last update: 2022-08-08

What you’ll learn

Learn The Fundamentals of Project Management.
Defining the components of a project
Understanding What it takes to be a project manager
Managing project scope, budget, and schedule
Managing project resources, including people
Managing project risk
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Identifying requirements and deliverables
Developing a project plan
Building a project schedule
Understanding the critical path
Managing teams
Monitoring performance
Documenting lessons learned
Closing a project

Requirements

Business skills are desired but not required to take the course

Description

Project management is a start-to-finish approach to getting things done and making projects more successful. It’s a profession, but it’s also a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and manage project work more effectively. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.

In this course you’ll be fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. We will explain the fundamentals of project management, from defining the problem, establishing project goals and objectives, and building a project plan to managing team resources, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, we will provide tips for reporting on project performance, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance.

Topics include:

Defining the components of a project
What it takes to be a project manager
Using project management software like Microsoft Project
Managing project scope, budget, and schedule
Managing project resources, including people
Managing project risk
Initiating a project
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Identifying requirements and deliverables
Developing a project plan
Building a project schedule
Assigning resources to tasks
Understanding the critical path
Running the project
Managing teams
Monitoring performance
Closing a project

Who this course is for

Students interested in Project Management.

Course content

Exploring Project Management
- Introduction
- The Challenge!
- Defining Project Management
- Understanding what it takes to be a Project Manager
- The five processes of project management
- About Reviews
- Traditional vs. agile project management
- Exploring project management software options
Initiating a Project
- Initiating a Project
- Writing a problem statement
- Defining project goals and objectives
- Choosing a strategy
- Gathering requirements
- Understanding deliverables and success criteria
- Identifying assumptions and understanding risks
- Creating a scope statement
- Identifying Stakeholders
- Obtaining Approval
- Writing a project charter
Planning a Project
- Planning a project
- Understanding work breakdown structures
- Building a work breakdown structure
- Defining work packages
- Building a schedule
- Identifying resources
- Building a project budget
- Identifying risks
- Creating a risk management plan
- Setting up a communication plan
- Developing a quality management plan
- Setting up a change management plan
Building a Project Schedule
- Estimating
- Creating dependencies between tasks
- Understanding work, duration, and units
- Making a realistic schedule
- Understanding the critical path
- Understanding the critical chain method
- Shortening a schedule
- Documentinga Baseline
Runnig a Project
- Running a project
- Executing a project
- Understanding Team Dynamics
- Gathering Data
- Understanding earned value analysis
- Reporting on progress
- Understanding financial measures
- Getting a project back on track
- Managing change, risk, and quality
Closing a Project
- Closing a project
- Gaining customer acceptance
- Documenting lessons learned
- Preparing a close-out report and archiving
- Closing contracts and accounts and transitioning
Bonus And Quiz
- PMP Preparation
- Additional resources