| Project Management: Project Management Overview |
| This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. |
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- Definition of project and project management
- The project management system
- The project life cycle
- Project constraints
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- The costs of quality
- Managing small projects
- Gaining organizational support
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| Project Management: Understanding the Project Manager's Role |
| This course explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective. |
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- Traits of a project manager
- Responsibilities and duties
- The need for good people skills
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- The importance of leadership
- Effective meeting guidelines
- Problems in assuming multiple roles
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| Project Management: Defining the Problem |
| 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. |
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- The Importance of the Definition Phase
- Stakeholders
- Aspects of the Definition Phase
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- Solving Closed-Ended Problems
- Defining Open-Ended Problems
- The Project Charter
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| Project Management: Determining the Strategy |
| This course defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning. |
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- Definition of Strategy
- Steps to Determine Strategy
- Develop the Strategies List
- Rank the Strategies List
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- Identify Risk
- Contingency Planning
- People Problems
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| Project Management: Developing the Work Breakdown Structure |
| This course describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram. |
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- WBS basics
- Identifying tasks
- WBS procedures
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- WBS guidelines
- Network diagram basics
- Network diagram procedures
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| Project Management: Estimating and Scheduling Resources |
| This course explains estimating and scheduling concepts, provides guidelines for estimating and scheduling, and describes the advantage of project management tools such as Microsoft Project. |
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- Basics of Scheduling
- The Definition of Estimating
- Assumptions When Estimating
- Estimating Methods
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- Resource Estimates
- Basics of Budgeting
- Approval of Work Plan
- Project Management Software
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| Project Management: Understanding Scheduling Computations |
| 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. |
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- Basics of scheduling computations
- Forward pass computations
- Backward pass computations
- Activity maximum float
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- Network calculations
- Constrained end date scheduling
- Reducing activity durations
- Use of the bar chart
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| Project Management: Tracking Project Activities |
| This course describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project. |
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- Basics of Control
- Guidelines for Controlling a Project
- Approaches to Monitoring
- Graph Analysis
- Spreadsheet Analysis
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- Status Reporting
- Review Meetings
- Accommodating Changes Deviations
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| Project Management: Closing Out the Project |
| This course explains the close-out phase of a project and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase. |
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- How Projects End
- Closing a Project
- Verification and Approval of Results
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- Reallocation of Resources
- Delivery of Results
- Final Report
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| Project Management: Formalizing Project Management Standards |
| This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. |
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- Developing a project methodology
- Roles and responsibilities
- Deliverables and approvals
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- Process review
- ISO requirements
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| Project Management: Developing Project Teams |
| This course describes project team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a project team. |
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- Definition of Team
- How Project Teams Are Different
- Team Building
- Communication
- Issues in Team Building
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- Team Member Roles and Responsibilities
- Teams and Decision Making
- An Individual's Needs
- Differences in Thinking Styles
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| Project Management: Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness |
| This course gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager. |
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- This course gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager.
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- Speaking and writing skills
- Certification
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