Ideas To Results: How To Be A Project Manager

Successful PM takes planning, leadership and collaboration. Learn to lead your projects and business to great results!

What you'll learn

Understand the demands of modern business environment and how project management strategy affects organisations

Get a handle on project management fundamentals- stages, control, critical paths and closure.

Master project planning for effective use of the human resources and physical resources.

Learn how to use tools and techniques to manage projects successfully

Understand how to divide work using a work breakdown structure (WBS)

Learn how to visualize activities and dependencies using a project network diagram.

Understand the advantages and disadvantages of traditional project managemnet and agile project management.

Requirements

Desire to learn and enhance knowledge in the area of project management

Intermediate level of English

A notebook to be used as a learning diary and to take notes and complete exercises

Description

Businesses today are facing more complex issues than ever before. Business professionals are expected to collaborate and execute in time-bound projects across the organisation. Competent project managers are in demand, for they are relied upon, for balancing the elements of cost, time, scope, people, and other resources to achieve business goals.Simply put -business outcomes are “effect" of well managed projects, and therefore it would not be an overstatement to say that project management strategies drive organisational success.But, to become an effective project manager, you need to have thorough understanding of resource dynamics, dependencies, tools and techniques, and an ability to manage unforeseen events to keep the project on track. As you would know, this is no way an easy task and that is the very reason, competent project managers bring in immense value to the organisations. Organisations not only requires a great degree of collaboration between people across locations but also an effective project management rigour that would go a long way making products, services and operations result oriented, flexible and, above all, sustainable.This course is beneficial for anyone transitioning into project management role, starting a career, or even already working as a project manager. You would always want to learn and relearn intricacies of effective project management and build on the knowledge at any stage of your career. If this describes you in any way, this is the right course for you. It will enhance your proficiency in project management by enabling you to lead projects efficiently and utilise best known tools and techniques available to manage time, scope, and resources.Sign up for this in-depth course to gain vital insights into successful project management including:Scoping of projects – understanding needs, setting goals of the project and defining objectives.Project break down structures – requirements, work, work packages, sequencing, scheduling and dependencies.Project budgeting, risk planning, slack and critical path analysis.Reporting, forecasting, escalation management and handling scope creeps.Handing over the deliverables, documentation and closure.Agile project management – iterative and adaptive continuous design and flexible scope and how it compares with traditional project management. Furthermore, in every video lecture in this course we will:Introduce the concept and relate it with context and learning needsDevelop on the subject matter and use examples in current business context to further explain the core principlesConcentrate on what you need to know in these complex business environmentsProvide references and exercises to develop scenario based learningUse practical frameworks, what has been learned and proven and what you may exercise to enhance your abilities.Help you learn application of tools and techniques in the context of business challenges and realities on the ground.Test you to recall and reinstate learning along with specially designed exercises. Upon completion of this course, you will grow not just in terms of fundamentals but also in terms of deploying tools, techniques and managing people for successful project management.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome To the Course!

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Introduction to Project Management

Lecture 2 Work As a Series of Projects

Lecture 3 Further Reading : Special Data Report Doesn't Lie

Lecture 4 Further Reading : Why Good Strategies Fail, Lessons for the C-suite

Lecture 5 Further Reading: Project Management Community

Section 3: Initiating Processes

Lecture 6 Recruiting A Project Manager

Lecture 7 Key Parties in the Project

Lecture 8 Recognizing Project Needs

Lecture 9 From Needs To Goals

Lecture 10 Defining Project Objectives

Lecture 11 Writing A Scope Statement

Lecture 12 Opposition to Scope Statement

Section 4: Planning Process

Lecture 13 Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Lecture 14 Further Reading : Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Lecture 15 True Story : NASA Virtual Project Management (PM) Challenge 2014

Lecture 16 Requirements Breakdown Structure

Lecture 17 Work Breakdown Structure

Lecture 18 Work Breakdown Structure - Review Assignment

Lecture 19 Breaking Work Into Work Packages

Lecture 20 Project Network Diagrams

Lecture 21 Further Reading: Project Execution Plan for the lon Beam Laboratory

Lecture 22 Project Network Diagram - Review Assignment

Lecture 23 Estimating Project Time Duration

Lecture 24 Depicting Dependencies

Lecture 25 Task Node Format and Information

Lecture 26 Scheduling Resources

Lecture 27 Needs and Skills Inventories

Lecture 28 Work Effort and Scheduling

Lecture 29 Project Budgeting

Lecture 30 Project Risk Planning

Lecture 31 "Forward Pass" Calculations

Lecture 32 "Backwards Pass" Calculations

Lecture 33 Slack

Lecture 34 Critical Path Analysis

Section 5: Controlling and Monitoring Processes

Lecture 35 Reports, Reports, Reports!

Lecture 36 Updating Progress and Estimates

Lecture 37 Responding to Variances

Lecture 38 Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

Lecture 39 Forecasting Based on EVA

Lecture 40 Project Meetings

Lecture 41 The Escalation Strategy Hierarchy

Lecture 42 Scope Creep

Section 6: Project Closing and Analysis

Lecture 43 Client Acceptance Procedure

Lecture 44 Further Reading: Guidelines For Managing Projects

Lecture 45 Installing Project Deliverables

Lecture 46 Documenting the Project

Lecture 47 Post-Implementation Audit

Lecture 48 Writing the Final Report

Section 7: Agile Project Management

Lecture 49 Agile Vs. Traditional Project Management

Lecture 50 Further Reading : The Agile Manifesto

Lecture 51 Further Reading : Turn on a Dime: Leveraging Agile Development with Virtual Team

Lecture 52 Attributes of Agile Project Management

Lecture 53 Further Reading : Scrum Resources

Lecture 54 Applications & Limitations

Section 8: Final Exam

Lecture 55 Final Research Paper: Internet Marketing Trends

Lecture 56 Final Project: Building a Marketing Plan

Business professionals with specialisations in other functional fields, in need to implement project management rigour, Analysts advancing into project management roles,Professionals and managers in the role of coordinating projects, Operations, business planning and process improvement professionals,Small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to make their work and time more efficient., Project management students or professionals in need of additional resources for project management certification exams. ,Team leaders