Practical Project Management Essentials - A Crash Course

PMP Formula, Feasibility Study, Capital budgeting, Critical path, Floats, Earned value analysis, Documents & many more.

What you'll learn
Approach to Practical project management in quick time
Importance and Different Feasibility study before start of any project, business or entreprenuership.
Concepts in capital budgeting for selection of projects/ business - NPV, IRR, Breakeven & Accounting Rate of return.
Earned value Management - Monitoring planned vs actuals
Critical Path, Floats and Gantt Chart in project scheduling
Tips to manage project successfully
Essential Project Management documents
Effectively managing triple constraints in project
Requirements
Interest in Project management
Planning to PMP certifcation, particularly on formulas
Description
Project management might turn out to be daunting task, if a PM does not understand the  basic PM concepts, technique and frame work . On similar line, CAPM / PMP certification might look difficult if one does not have basis undertanding on Project management concepts and approach.At the core of practical project management is an ability for keeping things simple. Not getting bogged down in lengthy and unwieldy processes. It does not mean cutting corners. Good project management practice is still necessary; it is about keeping it lean and mean. This, and getting the basics right, will help you deliver a successful project.Following these basic principles will give your project a good start:Keep it simple!Identify the stakeholdersAsk who benefits?Gain agreement to proceedDeliver the planFollow the project idea through to useThis unique crash course is designed in such a way to provide anyone with interest on project management with good understanding on project management concepts.It also focusses on some of the analytical calculation which is very much is in practical project managment as well as for certification like,Feasibity study - NPR, IRR, breakeven, Accounting Rate of Return - Prior start of project or the justification for the project, which are not looked at post starting the project, so a project manager might not focus on these. However, a project manager need to understand this prior starting any project which is in unique nature. Planning followed by execution and control is critical for success of the project. Here, project metrics and calculation are critical to check planned vs actual while excuting the projection and a project manager need to have a good understanding on,Earned value Management.Critical Path, Floats.Also, if you are interested in PMP certification, PMBOK would look much easier to understand post completing this course.Happy learning!!.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview - Topics of coverage

Section 2: Whats a Project and what's Operation

Lecture 2 What's a Project and whats a Operation

Lecture 3 Project and Operation - continued

Section 3: Project Life cycle Managment and triple contraints

Lecture 4 Project Life cycle Managment and triple contraints

Lecture 5 Different Phases and Knowledge areas

Section 4: Agile, Scrum and Devops frame work overview

Lecture 6 Agile, Scrum and Devops frame work overview

Section 5: Quiz 1

Section 6: Feasibility study for Projects

Lecture 7 Business case and need for feasibility study

Lecture 8 Technical, Economic and legal feasibility study

Lecture 9 Operational and Scheduling feasibility study

Lecture 10 Project Feasibility Study Reporting

Section 7: Project Capital Budgeting methods

Lecture 11 Capital Budgeting and different techniques

Lecture 12 Net Present Value (NPV) and IRR technique

Lecture 13 Net Present Value (NPV) and IRR technique through spreadsheet

Lecture 14 Break Even Analysis

Lecture 15 Accounting Rate of Return

Section 8: Quiz 2

Section 9: Triple Contraints and Scope of project

Lecture 16 Project Triple Constraint and scope of project

Lecture 17 Scope Creep vs Gold Plating

Section 10: Project scheduling

Lecture 18 Activity, WBS and Scheduling

Lecture 19 Activity and Relationship (FS, SS,FF, SF)

Lecture 20 What is Critical Path?

Lecture 21 What is Float?

Lecture 22 Forward Pass, Backward Pass, Positive float, Negative float, Critical Path

Lecture 23 Activity scheduling, Gantt chart - Demo - Primavera

Section 11: Project costing

Lecture 24 Project costing estimate techniques

Lecture 25 Contract types and Contigency

Section 12: What is project baseline

Lecture 26 What's project baseline

Section 13: Quiz 3

Section 14: Project Execution and Control

Lecture 27 Earned value analysis and overview

Lecture 28 Earned value analysis - Simple example casestudy

Lecture 29 Earned value analysis - Simple example solution

Lecture 30 S-curver - A visual representation for performance

Section 15: Essential documents in Project Management

Lecture 31 Essential documents in Project Management - Part 1

Lecture 32 Essential Documents in Project Managment - Part 2

Section 16: Quiz 4

Section 17: Other Knowledge areas & ITTO - PMI's PMBOK prespective

Lecture 33 Other Knowledge areas

Lecture 34 Input, Tools and Techniques and Output

Section 18: 5 Key Project Management Technique every PM should be aware

Lecture 35 5 Key Project Management Techniques

Section 19: 5 TIps for successful Project management

Lecture 36 Tips for Successful Project management

Lecture 37 Tips for Successful Project management -Continued

Section 20: Bonus Lecture

Lecture 38 Bonus Lecture

Aspiring Project Manager,Aspiring to take up PMP certification