Project Management: The Planning Phase

Project Management: The Planning Phase, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.2, with 73 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 77 reviews, and has 1389 subscribers.

You will learn about Complete the planning phase of a project making sure the project can be executed, monitored and controlled to a successful conclusion using solid repeatable methods and processes. Be able to create the five critical documents every successful project manager needs Astonish your project stakeholders by demonstrating your new found project management skills and knowledge This course is ideal for individuals who are This training program will be beneficial to all project team members, project sponsors and stakeholders. Giving them a thorough understanding of the fundamental methods and processes that all projects need or Project team members wanting to get more more involved in the management of their projects and wanting to know how best to support their project manager or Aspiring project managers wanting to enhance their career prospects by practicing solid repeatable project management processes or Steering team members who want to know what all the fuss is about It is particularly useful for This training program will be beneficial to all project team members, project sponsors and stakeholders. Giving them a thorough understanding of the fundamental methods and processes that all projects need or Project team members wanting to get more more involved in the management of their projects and wanting to know how best to support their project manager or Aspiring project managers wanting to enhance their career prospects by practicing solid repeatable project management processes or Steering team members who want to know what all the fuss is about.

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Summary

Title: Project Management: The Planning Phase

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.2

Number of Lectures: 73

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 73

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 76

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 76

Original Price: $64.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Complete the planning phase of a project making sure the project can be executed, monitored and controlled to a successful conclusion using solid repeatable methods and processes.
Be able to create the five critical documents every successful project manager needs
Astonish your project stakeholders by demonstrating your new found project management skills and knowledge

Who Should Attend

This training program will be beneficial to all project team members, project sponsors and stakeholders. Giving them a thorough understanding of the fundamental methods and processes that all projects need
Project team members wanting to get more more involved in the management of their projects and wanting to know how best to support their project manager
Aspiring project managers wanting to enhance their career prospects by practicing solid repeatable project management processes
Steering team members who want to know what all the fuss is about

Target Audiences

This training program will be beneficial to all project team members, project sponsors and stakeholders. Giving them a thorough understanding of the fundamental methods and processes that all projects need
Project team members wanting to get more more involved in the management of their projects and wanting to know how best to support their project manager
Aspiring project managers wanting to enhance their career prospects by practicing solid repeatable project management processes
Steering team members who want to know what all the fuss is about

Project Management

Project Management Courses: Planning Phase is designed for aspiring project managers and project team members wanting to get more involved in project management.

This project management course is structured around the premise that all projects have a beginning, a middle and an end and that all successful projects follow a standardised project management methodology.

Learn how to plan your projects using simple, repeatable processes guided by an easy to implement project management methodology.

Project Management as a Career

Enhance your career prospects, supercharge your project management skills and bring all your projects to successful conclusions – in time, under budget and to the delight of your key stakeholders.

Learn all the project management processes needed to complete the planning phase of your projects making sure all aspects of project execution and closing are included
Discover a project management methodology that is easy to implement, manage and control
Download a complete set of the only project management document templates you will ever need to manage your projects successfully

Project Management Methodology

Become a successful and practical project manager by introducing My Practical Project Management Methodology into your projects today so that you can plan, implement and bring all your projects to a successful conclusion.

Project Management Training

In this project management course you will learn:

What project management is all about
The characteristics of a successful project manager
How projects fit into organisations
What is and what is not a project life cycle
Why some organisations do not want and do not need a project management office
What is and what is not a project management methodology – The attributes of a practical and useful project management methodology
The five critical project management documents every successful project manager needs

You will learn the project management processes and techniques used during the planning phase of every successful project

This project management course will teach you:

How to initiate a project correctly with a sponsor and an approved project assignment
How to identify the key stakeholders and engage with them to make sure they are on your side
How to identify your key project team members
How to make sure all the project scope is included in the scope of work
How to define your project organisation
How to develop your project schedule through activity sequencing and duration estimating
How to identify the critical path through a project network diagram
How to estimate project costs and convert the costs into a time phased cost baseline, a budget
How to manage a risk identification workshop and identify the risks involved in the project
How to “plan-in” quality into your project
How to develop your procurement strategy for all the goods and services you will need to buy
How to decide what information is to be distributed to what stakeholder at what times

The project management course consists of:

Video presentations
Easy to do quizzes to keep your attention alive
Complete set of downloadable project management document templates

Students can ask and comment on questions in the discussion area and I will also be available to advise on any aspects of the planning phase of a project.

See you on the inside…

Jeb Riordan, PMP

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Course

Lecture 1: 1.1 Hi, I'm Jeb Riordan and Why Is This Training Program Necessary

Lecture 2: 1.2 Project Manager Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Chapter 2: What Exactly is Project Management?

Lecture 1: 2.0 Introduction to Section 2 What is Project Management?

Lecture 2: 2.1 What Exactly is a Project?

Lecture 3: 2.2 So, if that’s a Project, What is Project Management? And Why Do We Need It?

Lecture 4: 2.3 Stakeholders: Seek Them Out, Know Them, Satisfy Expectations or You Fail

Lecture 5: 2.4 Project Manager: By Accident or Design. The Skills You Will Need to Succeed

Lecture 6: 2.5 Projects and the Organisations that Surround Them

Lecture 7: 2.6 Functional, Projectized, Matrix: What Structure is Right for Your Project?

Lecture 8: 2.7 Project Management Offices: What are They and are They Really Necessary?

Lecture 9: 2.8 PIMS: Project Information Management System. Knowledge Base. Take Care of It

Lecture 10: 2.9 What are Project Phases? And What is the Project Life Cycle?

Lecture 11: 2.10 Project Phases Produce Project Deliverables. What is NOT a Project Phase?

Lecture 12: 2.11 No Need to Reinvent the Wheel When Using a Project Management Methodology

Lecture 13: 2.12 The International Standard ISO 21500 Guidance on Project Management

Lecture 14: 2.13 Employ the KISS When developing Your Project Management Methodology

Lecture 15: 2.14 Guided Tour of My Very Practical Project Management Methodology

Lecture 16: 2.15 Project Management Methodology, Milestone Reviews and Decision Gates

Lecture 17: 2.16 Five Critical Documents Every Successful Practical Project Manager Needs

Lecture 18: 2.17 Section 2 Review: Including the Three Musketeers and a PIMs

Chapter 3: Project Initiation and First Things First

Lecture 1: 3.0 Introduction to Section 3 Project Initiation in the Planning Phase

Lecture 2: 3.1 Selecting the Right Project- A Business Decision Based on Economic Factors

Lecture 3: 3.2 The Project Assignment Authorises the Project Manager to Mobilise Resources

Lecture 4: 3.3 “Keep your Friends Close and Your Stakeholders Closer”

Lecture 5: 3.4 Recruit Your Key Project Team Members, You Will Need Their Expertise Now

Lecture 6: 3.5 Section 3 Review: Start the Project With a Steering Team Approved Assignment

Chapter 4: Project Planning

Lecture 1: 4.0 Introduction to Section 4 Project Planning

Lecture 2: 4.1 Now is the Time to Write the Plan, the Whole Plan and Nothing But the Plan

Lecture 3: 4.2 Project Plan Template: The Second of the Critical Project Documents

Lecture 4: 4.3 Sect 4 Review: Start the Project Correctly With a Sponsor Approved Project

Chapter 5: Scope Planning

Lecture 1: 5.0 Introduction to Section 5: Scope Planning

Lecture 2: 5.1 What Are “Requirements”? And Where Do We Find Them?

Lecture 3: 5.2 Define the Scope in a Well Written Scope Statement that All Can Understand

Lecture 4: 5.3 Follow the Three Golden Rules When Creating Your Work Breakdown Structure

Lecture 5: 5.4 WBS Elements are Nouns Whilst Activities are Verbs Don’t Get Them Mixed Up

Lecture 6: 5.5 Section 5 Review: Freeze the Project Scope on Day 1 or Miss an Moving Target

Chapter 6: Resource Planning

Lecture 1: 6.0 Introduction to Section 6: Resource Planning

Lecture 2: 6.1 Resources can be People, Materials or Equipment. How Much of What is Needed?

Lecture 3: 6.2 We Identify the Resources Required to Complete Each Element of the WBS

Lecture 4: 6.3 A Project Organisation Chart is Key to Project Team Motivation

Lecture 5: 6.4 Section 6 Review: In which We Talk About how We Estimate the Resources

Chapter 7: Time (Schedule) Planning

Lecture 1: 7.0 Introduction to Section 7: Time (Schedule) Planning

Lecture 2: 7.1 Activity Sequencing: Figuring Out the Order We Will Do the Work

Lecture 3: 7.2 Activity Duration Estimating: Figuring Out How Long Each Activity Will Take

Lecture 4: 7.3 Developing the Project Schedule: It’s an Iterative Process for Sure

Lecture 5: 7.4 Calculating the Critical Path: An Example in Real Time

Lecture 6: 7.5 Section 7 Review: Schedule Planning, Tough Times Never Last, Tough People Do

Chapter 8: Cost Planning

Lecture 1: 8.0 Introduction to Section 8: Cost Planning

Lecture 2: 8.1 Estimating Costs: Of Everything and Remember the Project Management Costs

Lecture 3: 8.2 Developing the Project Budget: Spreading the Cost Over the Schedule

Lecture 4: 8.3 Budget Example in MS Excel: From Cost Estimate to Key Performance Indicators

Lecture 5: 8.4 Section 8 Review: Estimating Costs Produce a Budget and How to Monitor Cost

Chapter 9: Risk Planning

Lecture 1: 9.0 Introduction to Section 9: Risk Planning

Lecture 2: 9.1 Planning for Risk: Risk Identification is a Team Thing

Lecture 3: 9.2 Planning for Risk: Risk Assessment is also a Team Thing

Lecture 4: 9.3 Section 9 Review: Working Projects is a Really Risky Business

Chapter 10: Quality Planning

Lecture 1: 10.0 Introduction to Section 10: Quality Planning

Lecture 2: 10.1 Planning for Quality: Or Grade? Product or Project? Or all of the Above?

Lecture 3: 10.2 Section 10 Review: A Quality Product and a Quality Project is Our Goal

Chapter 11: Procurement Planning

Lecture 1: 11.0 Introduction to Section 11: Procurement Planning

Lecture 2: 11.1 Procurement Planning: Where We Decide What, How and When to Buy

Lecture 3: 11.2 Contracts: And Why Some are More Favourable to the Seller then the Buyer

Lecture 4: 11.3 Section 11 Review: Planning for the Money We Will Spend

Chapter 12: Communication Planning

Lecture 1: 12.0 Introduction to Section 12: Communication Planning

Lecture 2: 12.1 Communication Planning: Communication an Important Skill for all Managers

Lecture 3: 12.2 Section 12 Review: What How and When We Need to Communicate Project Status

Chapter 13: What Happens Now?

Lecture 1: This 3-part Training Program Covers the Whole Project Life Cycle

Lecture 2: My Practical Project Management Methodology on One Slide, or Maybe Three

Lecture 3: Review This Course

Lecture 4: Decision Gate Check Lists

Lecture 5: On Why PMBoK is Not a Project Management Methodology

Lecture 6: Compare ISO21500 with PMBoK Guide 5th Edition

Lecture 7: Change Control Templates

Instructors

Jeb Riordan
PMP, Project Management Consultant

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2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 10 votes
4 stars: 31 votes
5 stars: 32 votes

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