Project Management Foundations
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Project Management Foundations at Linkedin Learning Overview
Duration | 4 hours |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Credential | Certificate |
Project Management Foundations at Linkedin Learning Highlights
- Earn a sharable certificate
Project Management Foundations at Linkedin Learning Course details
- Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful
- Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives
- In this course, she explains the fundamentals of project management, from establishing project goals and objectives and building a project plan to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project
Project Management Foundations at Linkedin Learning Curriculum
Introduction
Deliver successful projects
What you should know
Get to Know Project Management
What is a project?
What is project management?
What it takes to be a project manager
The waterfall project management lifecycle
The agile project management lifecycle
How organizational structure affects projects
How organizational culture affects projects
Project management software options
Challenge: Organization
First Things First
Initiate a project
Identify project stakeholders
Analyze project stakeholders
Identify the project goal
Define project objectives
Gather requirements
Identify project deliverables and success criteria
Identify project assumptions and risks
Prepare a project scope statement
Create a project charter
Challenge: Project charter
Develop a Project Plan
Project planning overview
What is a work breakdown structure?
Build a work breakdown structure
How to create work packages
Estimate time and cost
How to choose the best estimate
Create a resource management plan
Build a project schedule
Develop a project budget
Identify risks
Create a risk management plan
Set up a communication plan
Develop a quality plan
How to set up a change management plan
How to plan procurement
How to obtain approval to proceed
Challenge: Change
Build a Project Schedule
Put tasks in sequence
How to assign resources to tasks
Learn to use milestones
Make a realistic schedule
Understand the critical path
How to shorten a schedule
Document the baseline
Challenge: Network diagram
An Overview of Agile Project Management
What is agile project management?
The agile project management lifecycle
Plan an iteration
Manage the explore stage
Handle the adapt and close stages
Challenge: Agile
While You Run the Project
How to run a project
Techniques for communicating effectively
Run effective meetings
Work with Teams
Manage team resources
Understand team dynamics
How to manage virtual teams
Challenge: Team
Monitoring and Controlling Processes and Performance
How to gather data
How to manage project change
Learn how to manage project scope
Monitor and control risks
How and when to use earned value analysis
Evaluate progress
How to get a project back on track
Challenge: Change request
Close the Project
Close a project
How to obtain customer acceptance
Document lessons learned
How to prepare a close-out report
Learn how to close and transition projects
Challenge: Acceptance
Changes to PMBOK® Guide ? Seventh Edition
Create organizational value through a value delivery system
Principle-based project management
Focus on project outcomes through performance domains
Tailor your approach to meet project and organizational needs
Models, methods, and artifacts
Conclusion
Next steps
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