Project Management Simplified
Overview
Learn the basic project management skills you need to succeed as a business professional.
Almost everything you do in the workplace is a project, from the smallest task to the largest endeavor. All of this work can benefit from some basic project management skills. Once mastered, you will be able to transfer this valuable skillset to any project, of any size, in any industry. In this course, management trainer Chris Croft outlines the twelve steps to managing projects without creating a lot of extra overhead, and shows how to use traditional project management tools—such as Gantt charts and network diagrams—to help you succeed. Learn how to plan a project, manage resources, monitor progress, and deliver your project on time and on budget.
Almost everything you do in the workplace is a project, from the smallest task to the largest endeavor. All of this work can benefit from some basic project management skills. Once mastered, you will be able to transfer this valuable skillset to any project, of any size, in any industry. In this course, management trainer Chris Croft outlines the twelve steps to managing projects without creating a lot of extra overhead, and shows how to use traditional project management tools—such as Gantt charts and network diagrams—to help you succeed. Learn how to plan a project, manage resources, monitor progress, and deliver your project on time and on budget.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Project management: A priceless skill
- Introduction to the 12-step process
- What is a project?
- Define the Iron Triangle
- Plan before you commit
- Kick-off meetings
- Key project drivers
- Three ways to list all the project tasks
- Choose the level of granularity
- Use Post-its to plan the order of tasks
- How to estimate durations
- The importance of your project's critical path
- How much safety margin does a project need?
- How to calculate and add contingency
- How to speed up your plan
- How to create a Gantt chart
- A reason to love Gantt charts
- Set up a basic Gantt chart in Excel
- Add names and dates to your Gantt
- Add time and money to your Gantt
- Resource planning for one project
- Resource planning for multiple projects
- How to create a Risk chart
- How to monitor project progress
- Cost monitoring: The potential traps
- The six combinations of progress and spend
- How to forecast future cost
- When to re-adjust the plan
- What to do when your project is late or over budget
- Why avoid reviewing projects
- How to review a project
- Apply the simple 12-step process
Taught by
Chris Croft
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