Project Management Foundations
Course description
Successfully managing a project requires effective planning and adherence to the industry’s best practices in every step of the process. Small, uncomplicated projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives can all benefit from project management. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to initiate a project in your organization and position it for success. In this course, you will identify effective project management practices and their related processes.
From creating project goals and objectives to building a project plan, managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project, you will learn the essentials of project management including tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance in this course.
You will learn how to:
- Initiate a project, plan for time and cost, project risks, communication and change control.
- Manage a project and execute the project to the closeout phase with Microsoft projects.
- Oversee the project execution and project scheduling
- Identify key project goals and assumptions and set the stage for value delivery.
- Understand how to identify stakeholders and assess how to engage with them during the project.
- Meet stakeholder informational needs by creating an actionable communication plan.
- Articulate product scope as part of the charter.
- Perform a more detailed and systematic assessment of risk.
- Articulate guiding quality characteristics for the project.
- Sequence activities, create schedules, and estimate the cost of the project.
Delivery: E-learning (interactive, self-paced & convenient, and affordable)
