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Project Management
Project Management Online Training Course
Course Topics: 12
Estimated Time Needed: 22 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management. It can also be helpful in preparing for the Project Management Institute project management certification.
Course Description: This online course 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.
Course Tutorials Include:
Time: 2 hour(s)
Project Management: 1 Project Management Overview
Description
This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.
Objectives
Define the terms project and project management
Explain the seven components of a management system
List and describe the five phases of the project life cycle
Describe how the time devoted to a project affects its cost
Explain what causes rework on projects
Describe the factors that contribute to the cost of quality
Explain how to tailor project management to small projects
Describe ways to gain your organization's support of project management
Time: 2 hour(s)
Project Management: 2 Understanding the Project Manager's Role
Description
This course explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective.
Objectives
Describe five key traits that a project manager should have
List the duties and responsibilities of a project manager
Explain why a project manager should have good people skills
Explain the importance of leadership
List the guidelines for running effective meetings
Explain why a project manager should not assume multiple roles
Time: 1 hour(s)
Project Management: 3 Defining the Problem
Description
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.
Objectives
Explain reasons why projects fail
Explain the importance of having stakeholders participate in defining the problem
Explain the elements of the Definition Phase
Describe closed-ended problems and explain the approach to solving them
Describe open-ended problems and explain the approach to solving them
Define what a project charter is and explain why it is important
Time: 2 hour(s)
Project Management: 4 Determining the Strategy
Description
This course defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning.
Objectives
Define project strategy and explain its importance
List the steps in determining a project's strategy
Explain the approach for developing a list of strategies
Describe the approach for ranking a list of strategies
Define risk as it relates to project management
Explain three ways to manage risk
Explain how to handle resistance from people when developing the project strategy
Time: 2 hour(s)
Project Management: 5 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
Description
This course describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram.
Objectives
Define the work breakdown structure and explain its purpose during the implementation phase
List the components of the work breakdown structure
List the steps for developing the work breakdown structure
List the guidelines to follow when developing the work breakdown structure
Define the network diagram and explain its purpose during the implementation phases
List the steps in developing a network diagram
Explain the AOA and AON methods for network diagramming
Time: 2 hour(s)
Project Management: 6 Estimating and Scheduling Resources
Description
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.
Objectives
Define estimating
List the questions you need to answer to begin estimating a project
Explain the importance of historical data
List the factors to consider when estimating cost
List the factors to consider when estimating resources
Explain the advantages of scheduling methods such as PERT and CPM
Explain how to take advantage of project management software
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.
Objectives
List the variables that affect the project schedule as well as the rules for computing project time
Define forward pass computations
Define backward pass computations
Explain the relationship of float to critical path
Explain how network calculations are performed
Describe constrained end date scheduling
Explain how to reduce activity durations
Describe the use of bar charts in project scheduling
Demonstrate how to determine the critical path of project
Time: 1 hour(s)
Project Management: 8 Tracking Project Activities
Description
This course describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project.
Objectives
List for variables that must be controlled and monitored for a project
List two guidelines for controlling a project
Define the BWCP graph analysis technique for tracking projects
Demonstrate ability to use graphs for tracking projects
List the advantages of spreadsheet analysis
List the disadvantages of reporting schedule only
List three kinds of project reviews
Describe what to do when a project is off track
Time: 1 hour(s)
Project Management: 9 Closing Out the Project
Description
This course explains the close-out phase of a project and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase.
Objectives
Explain ways that a project can end
List the tasks for closing out a project
Explain why it is important to verify and approve project deliverables
Explain how to handle resources at the end of a project
List what you need to consider when delivering a finished product
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