Deeply Practical Project Management (16 PDUs)

Deeply Practical Project Management (16 PDUs), available at $189.99, has an average rating of 4.57, with 227 lectures, 10 quizzes, based on 19584 reviews, and has 69106 subscribers.

You will learn about "Finally an online course that teaches the 'how' of project management from an experienced veteran." – Karin Brame One comprehensive course that covers the entire PM process, with a realistic, complete, professional $44M example. How to get stakeholder and senior management support at the beginning of your project, and maintain it throughout. The practical essentials of Project Manager communication, team management, negotiation, and leadership. How to plan your project with less than 5% (!) of the overall effort, so everyone has realistic expectations before you start. How to avoid the top three causes of project failure, and manage the top three drivers of project success. The critical importance of the project requirements, with best practices for documentation, review, and approval. Practical advice on building your work breakdown structure (WBS), and when to break it down further. Why the precedence diagram is your most important PM tool, even more important than the Gantt schedule. Five techniques for estimating, the tricks to estimating within +/- 10%, and how to handle estimating error. A complete, animated example of how to calculate the critical path, and why schedule is almost always more important than budget. How to decide whether to build or buy, the best type of contract structure, and the best way to make the award. How to prepare the final project plan, brief management, provide options, stay truthful, and protect your career. The essentials of building the best project team, and delegation, motivation, and resolution of personnel conflicts. How to manage scope so you find the things inevitably missed, but don’t let scope creep blow up your project. Use the critical path to focus on the most important items, intelligently reallocate resources, and make the PM’s job easier and easier. Track the budget and manage its key drivers to obtain the best cost performance possible. Identify the risks up front, mitigate them early, and manage your project to stay within the risk budget. The most effective things you can do to manage quality and ensure the customer is happy with the project result. Use earned value management (EVM) to objectively estimate future cost and schedule performance. Ask the stakeholders for guidance when your project is in trouble in the most productive and constructive way. Use scenario based verification to sign off requirements and make sure the customer is happy with the project result. Best practices for gathering lessons learned to find both what went well and what can be improved, and easily gather them as you go. Close your project, write a final report, and hold a project celebration so everyone can transition to their next challenge. A complete example of professional project management documentation for the $44M “Magical Devices Version 3” project. The document “Project Planning With MS Office” describing how to use Miscrosoft apps to document your scope, schedule, and budget. Six practice quizzes, nine project management document templates, a 250 page slide deck, and six summary checklists. Gain a deeply practical understanding of the PMI process for those that wish to write an exam and obtain a certification. This course is ideal for individuals who are Project managers that want a deeply practical description of how to apply the project management process in real life. or Anyone that wants to understand the practical essentials of the project management best practices. or Managers and leaders: includes a mini course on communications, team management, negotiation, and leadership. It is particularly useful for Project managers that want a deeply practical description of how to apply the project management process in real life. or Anyone that wants to understand the practical essentials of the project management best practices. or Managers and leaders: includes a mini course on communications, team management, negotiation, and leadership.

Enroll now: Deeply Practical Project Management (16 PDUs)

Summary

Title: Deeply Practical Project Management (16 PDUs)

Price: $189.99

Average Rating: 4.57

Number of Lectures: 227

Number of Quizzes: 10

Number of Published Lectures: 224

Number of Published Quizzes: 10

Number of Curriculum Items: 237

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 234

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

• "Finally an online course that teaches the 'how' of project management from an experienced veteran." – Karin Brame
• One comprehensive course that covers the entire PM process, with a realistic, complete, professional $44M example.
• How to get stakeholder and senior management support at the beginning of your project, and maintain it throughout.
• The practical essentials of Project Manager communication, team management, negotiation, and leadership.
• How to plan your project with less than 5% (!) of the overall effort, so everyone has realistic expectations before you start.
• How to avoid the top three causes of project failure, and manage the top three drivers of project success.
• The critical importance of the project requirements, with best practices for documentation, review, and approval.
• Practical advice on building your work breakdown structure (WBS), and when to break it down further.
• Why the precedence diagram is your most important PM tool, even more important than the Gantt schedule.
• Five techniques for estimating, the tricks to estimating within +/- 10%, and how to handle estimating error.
• A complete, animated example of how to calculate the critical path, and why schedule is almost always more important than budget.
• How to decide whether to build or buy, the best type of contract structure, and the best way to make the award.
• How to prepare the final project plan, brief management, provide options, stay truthful, and protect your career.
• The essentials of building the best project team, and delegation, motivation, and resolution of personnel conflicts.
• How to manage scope so you find the things inevitably missed, but don’t let scope creep blow up your project.
• Use the critical path to focus on the most important items, intelligently reallocate resources, and make the PM’s job easier and easier.
• Track the budget and manage its key drivers to obtain the best cost performance possible.
• Identify the risks up front, mitigate them early, and manage your project to stay within the risk budget.
• The most effective things you can do to manage quality and ensure the customer is happy with the project result.
• Use earned value management (EVM) to objectively estimate future cost and schedule performance.
• Ask the stakeholders for guidance when your project is in trouble in the most productive and constructive way.
• Use scenario based verification to sign off requirements and make sure the customer is happy with the project result.
• Best practices for gathering lessons learned to find both what went well and what can be improved, and easily gather them as you go.
• Close your project, write a final report, and hold a project celebration so everyone can transition to their next challenge.
• A complete example of professional project management documentation for the $44M “Magical Devices Version 3” project.
• The document “Project Planning With MS Office” describing how to use Miscrosoft apps to document your scope, schedule, and budget.
• Six practice quizzes, nine project management document templates, a 250 page slide deck, and six summary checklists.
• Gain a deeply practical understanding of the PMI process for those that wish to write an exam and obtain a certification.

Who Should Attend

• Project managers that want a deeply practical description of how to apply the project management process in real life.
• Anyone that wants to understand the practical essentials of the project management best practices.
• Managers and leaders: includes a mini course on communications, team management, negotiation, and leadership.

Target Audiences

• Project managers that want a deeply practical description of how to apply the project management process in real life.
• Anyone that wants to understand the practical essentials of the project management best practices.
• Managers and leaders: includes a mini course on communications, team management, negotiation, and leadership.