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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
Project Management: 7 Understanding Scheduling Computations
Description
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
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
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
- List the components of the project final report
Project Management:10 Formalizing Project Management Standards
Description
This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management.
Objectives
- Define the importance of having a project management methodology and list what a methodology should contain
- List the types of roles and responsibilities that should be specified in a formalized project management standard
- List the stakeholders who must approve each item in the project cycle
- List six pieces of information that a Process Review Report should contain
- Explain why developing a project methodology is important for ISO certification
Project Management:11 Developing Project Teams
Description
This course describes project team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a project team.
Objectives
- Define a team
- List ways project teams differ from other types of teams
- Explain the importance of building teams
- List three ways to foster communication on a team
- List and explain four focuses for dealing with issues
- List the team member roles and responsibilities
- Explain the two components that affect every team decision
- List the five levels of psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of human needs and explain why this theory is important for good team building
- Explain different styles of thinking that people may demonstrate on a team
Project Management:12 Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness
Description
This course gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager.
Objectives
- Develop a list of personal values and rank them by priority
- Distinguish between effectiveness and efficiency and explain why each is important
- Use a prioritized list of values to define life goals
- Understand how the 80/20 Principle applies to personal effectiveness
- List guidelines for speaking and writing effectively
- List the requirements for project management certification
Features
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.
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