Project Management: Simple Software Project Management

Project Management for NEW Project Managers - knowledge, tools, techniques, skills, checklists, guidelines, pitfalls

What you'll learn

Manage Software Projects like a veteran

Initiate, Plan, Execute and Control Projects - the CORRECT way

Learn about the one thing that SIGNIFICANTLY reduces failure

Identify Risks from a mile ahead - MITIGATE them

Learn Techniques to Monitor and Control every aspect of the Project

Close Projects Successfully - Never be left with a puttering, piddling project on your hands

Learn CORE SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS - manage projects Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid Methodologies - in Services or Product development company

Requirements

Nothing really - you should know some fundamentals of software engineering

Description

This course will teach YOU how to be a great Software Project Manager. You will learn the special knowledge, skills, tools and techniques you will need to perform well - and with some experience you will become a great project manager.
Project Management could be your job title, your role or your activity - the lessons in this course applies well no matter how you define it.
Very often good technical people are promoted into Project Managerial roles. But Project Management is a different ball game altogether. In fact, you will need a different set of genes altogether. This course is where you will get that.
COURSE UPDATE 20th Dec 2016:
939 learners joined in 10 months of launch!!Great reviews - read them belowTwo BONUS lessons added - students have requested a few more and I am in production
My manifesto for this course is:
Fast Track your learningZero or minimal JargonIncluded: Guidelines, Templates, Checklists, Examples, Case Study - every lessonNo rambling long lessons everDistill decades worth of learning into memorable videos
The course starts with fundamentals which are worth their weight in gold. Then in a very structured way - you will learn how to initiate projects, plan, execute and finally close projects. At every step you will learn how monitor and control all aspects of the project.
These are CORE SKILLS for a Software Project Manager - and you can use each of these lessons irrespective of the size of the project, methodology used, or company domain - whether you are in the services, consultancies or product development arena.
How to maximize your learning from this course:
Sequentially go through each lesson of this course onceTake lots of notes Re-visit each section depending on which project management process you are currently in (like planning or execution) Interact with your peers - here and elsewhere - share your experiences
So, make the best use of this opportunity to learn from a course where I have distilled the teachings of brilliant industry veterans - and added my own experiences to the mix.
Enroll now and see you in the course.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Project Management

Lecture 1 WELCOME to the New Project Manager Course!

Lecture 2 Introduction to SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Lecture 3 ETERNAL Constraints - The Project Management Triangle

Lecture 4 HOW TO: Watch this course in HD

Lecture 5 PHASES of a Software project

Section 2: Initiating Projects - Defining Project Scope

Lecture 6 Case Study for this course

Lecture 7 Project KICK-OFF Meeting

Lecture 8 SAMPLE + TEMPLATE: (downloadable) - Project Kickoff Meeting Presentation

Section 3: Project Planning

Lecture 9 Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document

Lecture 10 PDF & DOC TEMPLATE - Software Requirements Document

Lecture 11 BEST PRACTICE - Work Breakdown Structure - WBS Demystified

Lecture 12 10 Golden Rules to - WBS Creation

Lecture 13 Schedule Creation: What are Tasks?

Lecture 14 BONUS: The Secret Sauce of Creating a Schedule

Lecture 15 Reviews and Signoffs

Lecture 16 BONUS: PM's Essential Work Formulas - MS PROJECT Perspective

Section 4: Executing SUCCESSFUL Projects

Lecture 17 Collecting Project Status

Lecture 18 Communicating Project Status

Lecture 19 Levels of Testing for your Project - BONUS

Lecture 20 Risk Identification, Contingency and Mitigation

Section 5: Closing Projects: "It Ain't Over till It's Over"

Lecture 21 Closing a Project - The Correct Way!

Lecture 22 User Acceptance Testing

Lecture 23 Project Team Review

Section 6: BONUS SECTION: Downloadable Templates, Cheat Sheets, Extra exercises

Lecture 24 Schedule Review - The Downloadable Cheat Sheet

Section 7: A Thank You GIFT for you

Lecture 25 Bonus Lecture: Thank You GIFTs for you!!

New Project Managers with no experience managing,Experienced PM's new to Technology Projects,Technical Leads who want to take on TEAM LEAD roles,Entrepreneurs who have lead a development team,Onsite Tech Managers,Officers at Companies looking to Offshore Projects,NOT FOR: those experienced in Software/Tech Project Management,NOT FOR: those who have no professional software engineering experience