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Course Outline
Project Management Basics, Initiation, and Planning
- Project management basics: types and characteristics of projects, triple constraints of project management, project methodologies, projects vs. programs vs. portfolios, project stakeholders
- Project conceptualizing and initiating: developing success criteria and determining what "done" looks like, creating the business case, cost benefit analysis, developing the project charter
Planning and Execution
- Project planning: the work breakdown structure, estimating using effort and duration, techniques for accurate estimates, methods to calculate start and finish dates of tasks, network diagrams, critical path method, resource planning, creating a project milestone schedule, creating Gantt charts, identifying and quantifying project risks
- Project execution and control: creating a high-performing project team, techniques for effective communication and status reporting, earned value management (EVM)
Control, Close, and Action Planning
- Project execution and control: project scope management and developing a change control plan, monitoring and managing risks and issues, managing stakeholder expectations
- Project closing: scope verification, transferring deliverables to the customer, post-project review