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6 hours

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Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
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Highlights

  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Beginner Level Attendance of the previous course "Project Management beyond planning and control" is not compulsory, but it is recommended.
  • Approx. 6 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: English
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  • Project Management is a fundamental theme to understand and work in any business environments. One of the main skills that Project Managers need to have deals with the ability to manage the project during its entire life-cycle and to plan the work needed to achieve the final result. During the course, the various phases of a typical project are presented. Then, various practical tools are presented aiming to help professionals in actually manage their projects through useful instruments. Among the others, the Scope Statement helps managers in identifying and clearly define what is and what is not part of the project, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) helps in identifying the activities, the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) in managing the team, the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) to match activities and people, while the Gantt Chart provides a time-based view on the project.
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Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
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Curriculum

The project lifecycle and the scope management

Project Life-Cycle

The Initiating phase

The central role of Planning

Introducing the style project

Scope definition and scope changes

Scope creep and Gold plating

A case study: the S.T.Y.L.E. project

Activity 1 - The scope statement

Week 1 - Quiz

Project planning

The Work Breakdown Structure

The feed-forward approach

The role of milestones

The rolling wave approach

The OBS and RAM

Duration and cost of an activity

The Gantt Chart

The organizational feasibility

Planning costs

Activity 2 - The WBS

Activity 3 - The OBS

Activity 4 - The RAM

Activity 5 - The Gantt Chart

Week 2 - Quiz

Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
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    Important Dates

    May 25, 2024
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