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. Along the way, she provides tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance. This course provides exercises for most videos based on a healthcare/IT case study project.
Video List – Total 81 Videos
Introduction
1. Deliver successful projects
2. What you should know
1. Get to Know Project Management
3. What is a project?
4. What is project management?
5. What it takes to be a project manager
6. The project management life cycle
7. Traditional vs. agile project management
8. How organizational structure affects projects
9. How organizational culture affects projects
10. Project management software options
11. Challenge: Organization
2. First Things First
12. Initiate a project
13. Identify project stakeholders
14. Analyze project stakeholders
15. Identify the project goal
16. Define project objectives
17. Choose a strategy
18. Gather requirements
19. Identify project deliverables and success criteria
20. Identify project assumptions and risks
21. Prepare a project scope statement
22. Create a project charter
23. Challenge: Project charter
3. Develop a Project Plan
24. Project planning overview
25. What is a work breakdown structure?
26. Build a work breakdown structure
27. How to create work packages
28. Estimate time and cost
29. How to choose the best estimate
30. Create a resource management plan
31. Build a project schedule
32. Develop a project budget
33. Identify risks
34. Create a risk management plan
35. Set up a communication plan
36. Develop a quality plan
37. How to set up a change management plan
38. How to plan procurement
39. Processes for procuring resources
40. How to obtain approval to proceed
41. Challenge: Change
4. Build a Project Schedule
42. Put tasks in sequence
43. How to assign resources to tasks
44. Learn to use milestones
45. Make a realistic schedule
46. Understand the critical path
47. Understand the critical chain method
48. How to shorten a schedule
49. Document the baseline
50. Challenge: Network diagram
5. An Overview of Agile Project
Management
51. What is agile project management?
52. The agile project management life cycle
53. Plan an iteration
54. Manage the explore stage
55. Handle the adapt and close stages
56. Challenge: Agile
6. While You Run the Project
57. How to run a project
58. Techniques for communicating effectively
59. Run effective meetings
60. Challenge: Agenda
7. Work with Teams
61. Manage team resources
62. Understand team dynamics
63. How to manage virtual teams
64. How to manage technical teams
65. Challenge: Team
8. Monitor and Control Progress and Performance
66. How to gather data
67. How to manage project change
68. Learn how to manage project scope
69. Monitor and control risks
70. Understand earned value analysis
71. Evaluate progress
72. Learn how to solve problems
73. How to get a project back on track
74. Challenge: Change request
9. Close a Project
75. Close a project
76. How to obtain customer acceptance
77. Document lessons learned
78. How to prepare a close-out report
79. Learn how to close and transition projects
80. Challenge: Acceptance
Conclusion
81. Next steps
