Project Management Master Course: Beginner to Advance Level

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Instructor & Course Outlines

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Instructor & Course

Lecture 2: Course Outlines

Chapter 2: Defining a Project

Lecture 1: Definition of Project

Lecture 2: Project Definition in IT-Based Organizations

Lecture 3: Project Parameters

Lecture 4: Scope Triangle

Lecture 5: Project Creeps

Chapter 3: Traditional Project Management

Lecture 1: Introduction to TPM

Lecture 2: Priciple of TPM-Defining

Lecture 3: Evolution and Relevance of Traditional Project Management in the 21st Century

Lecture 4: Principle of TPM-Planning

Lecture 5: Principle of TPM-Executing

Lecture 6: Principle of TPM-Controlling

Lecture 7: Principle of TPM-Closing

Lecture 8: Phases of TPM

Lecture 9: Quality Management

Lecture 10: Risk Management

Chapter 4: Scoping the Project

Lecture 1: Intro to Scoping

Lecture 2: Conditions of Satisfaction (COS)

Lecture 3: POS Intro & Purposes

Lecture 4: Parts of POS

Lecture 5: Attachments of POS

Lecture 6: Overview of Project Scoping

Chapter 5: Identifying Project Activities

Lecture 1: Intro to WBS

Lecture 2: Utilization of WBS

Lecture 3: Generating WBS

Lecture 4: Criteria to Test WBS

Lecture 5: Approaches to Build WBS

Chapter 6: Estimating Duration, Resource Requirements & Cost

Lecture 1: Introduction to Estimate Duration

Lecture 2: Duration and Work Effort

Lecture 3: Labor Time & Clock Time

Lecture 4: Variation in Activity Duration & Causes

Lecture 5: Six Methods of Estimating Activity Duration

Chapter 7: Monitoring & Controlling Progress

Lecture 1: Control Tools

Lecture 2: Control versus Risk

Lecture 3: Purpose of Controls

Lecture 4: Balancing the Control System

Lecture 5: Control versus Quality

Lecture 6: Progress Reporting System

Lecture 7: Types of Project Status Reports

Lecture 8: How & What Information to Update

Lecture 9: Managing Project Status Meetings

Chapter 8: Project Network Diagram Constructing & Analyzing

Lecture 1: Introduction to PND

Lecture 2: Envisioning a Complex PND

Lecture 3: Project Scheduling Techniques

Lecture 4: Building Network Diagram

Lecture 5: Dependencies in PND

Lecture 6: Constraints in PND

Lecture 7: Creating Initial Proj Network Schedule

Lecture 8: Critical Path

Lecture 9: Analyzing Initial PND

Lecture 10: Compressing the Schedule

Lecture 11: Management Reserve

Chapter 9: Critical Chain Project Management

Lecture 1: What is Critical Chain?

Lecture 2: Variations in Duration

Lecture 3: Statistical Validation of Critical Approach

Lecture 4: Buffers & it's Types

Lecture 5: Utilization of Buffers

Lecture 6: Managing Buffers

Lecture 7: Case Studies of Projects that applied CCPM approach

Chapter 10: Closing Out the Projects

Lecture 1: Intro & Steps in Closing a Project

Lecture 2: Getting Client Acceptance

Lecture 3: Installing Project Deliverables

Lecture 4: Documenting the Project & Parts

Lecture 5: Post-Implementation Audit

Lecture 6: The Final Report

Lecture 7: Celebrating Success

Chapter 11: Adaptive Project Framework (APF)

Lecture 1: Defining APF

Lecture 2: Phases of APF

Lecture 3: Version Scope

Lecture 4: Cycle Plan

Lecture 5: Cycle Build

Lecture 6: Client Checkpoint

Lecture 7: Post Version Review

Lecture 8: Business Outcomes

Lecture 9: APF Core Values

Lecture 10: Client Focused

Lecture 11: Client Driven

Lecture 12: Incremental Results

Lecture 13: Continuous Questioning

Lecture 14: Change for Better Solution

Lecture 15: Speculation on Future

Lecture 16: Overview of APF

Lecture 17: Version Scope Introduction