About This Course
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals and best practices of project management. Ensure that you are delivering business value by assessing a project’s business case, identifying stakeholders and their relationship to your project, capturing product requirements, and establishing quality metrics to guide the development of your product and reassess the business case. Define product scope to provide clarity for project delivery and create a work breakdown structure to define project scope for the team. Manage your project within the planned budget and schedule by managing change and identifying and managing risks, assumptions, and constraints. Track the delivery of business value and close projects out cleanly.
Learning Objectives
Articulate the relevance of core project management competences.
Identify key project goals and assumptions and set the stage for value delivery.
Meet stakeholder informational needs by creating an actionable communication plan.
Articulate product scope as part of the charter.
Become familiar with the process of eliciting and capturing requirements.
Create the WBS and dictionary that would deliver the scope in the project charter.
Perform a more detailed and systematic assessment of risk.
Articulate guiding quality characteristics for the project.
Sequence activities, create schedule, and estimate the cost of the project.
Manage change in projects.
Track value delivery in projects.
Understand the basics of a project retrospective.
Target Audience
- Working professionals who want to transition into project management
- Professionals in leadership roles who will benefit from understanding the essentials of project management and value delivery
- Students and/or employees in junior positions, who want to gain a basic understanding of project management fundamentals
- Anyone involved in, or affected by projects, or working in some way to support projects and looking to understand the basics of successful project management and improve their core competencies
Curriculum
20 Lessons20h
Understanding Project Management
What is a project?
Project management life cycle
Role of a project manager
Initiation
Planning
Managing
Closing Phase
