The Project Management Course: Beginner to PROject Manager

Description

In this course, you will :

• Learn the project management knowledge and abilities required to manage a complete project.
• Conduct a comprehensive case study of a project from start to finish, using real-life project scenarios. 
• Receive over 15 project management templates and useful documents to help you structure and manage projects. 
• Understand the project manager's role and develop the abilities required to succeed in the profession. 
• Investigate Waterfall and Agile project management techniques, including Scrum. 
• Learn project management theory and best practices, as well as how to construct five key project management documents using MS Excel.

Syllabus:

1. The project phases

• How does a project start and how does it evolve? What a project's main stages?

2. The initiation phase

• What is the Initiation phase about? Define the project goals
• What is involved in a business case?
• What is project "Scope"?
• Who performs the feasibility study and what does it involve?
• What goes into risk assessment? What are expectations?
• How to create a Project Charter?
• Case Study 1

3. The planning phase

• What is Planning? Why is it important? What happens if it is not done correctly?
• Why is Planning so critical in Project management?
• What is the cost of Change in projects?
• What to do before you start?
• Project management insights
• Scope Planning
• Scope Planning (continued)

4. The planning phase - timelines and schedules

• How to estimate when planning?
• The planning fallacy, optimism bias, illusion of control
• How much to buffer?
• Identifying dependencies
• Planning - Estimation and Dependencies
• Identifying the critical path
• Using the Gantt chart to plan the project work streams
• Building the project schedule (+ MS Project tutorial)
• How to build a milestone table and its uses

5. The planning phase - cost

• The process of budgeting
• The process of budgeting (continued)
• Procurement contract types
• Procuring non-financial resources
• Planning HR
• RACI matrix - assigning roles
• Quality requirements

6. The planning phase - Expectations, Assumptions and Risks

• Planning expectations management
• How to control assumptions
• Planning Risk management
• Building a Risk log

7. The planning phase - Change process

• How to deal with and record change requests
• Planning - Risk and Change Management

8. The execution phase - Meetings

• Introduction to Execution and KO Meetings
• What is involved in a kick-off meeting
• Tips to handle meetings

9. The execution phase - Project Diary

• What is action-owner due date
• Filling in the project diary

10. The execution phase - Managing the team and work

• How the Project Manager manages tasks
• How the Project Manager manages the team

11. The monitoring and control phase

• What is monitoring and control
• Controlling in a PM environment
• M & C - Intro
• How to check if a project is on schedule
• How to see if a project is on budget
• M & C - Time and Cost
• How to perform quality control
• Keeping the risk log updated
• Dealing with change proposals

12. The execution phase - Issue management

• How to record and build project report updates
• How to deal with any issues that occur during execution

13. The closure phase

• Why do we close a project
• What steps to take to close a project

14. MS Excel for Project Management

• Tracker 1: High-level
• Tracker 2: Standard tasks
• Tracker 3: Few steps & statuses
• Project Management Logs
• Actions, Issues, Dependencies Log
• RAIDD Log
• RAIDD Log - Structures
• Risks Log
• Project Management Logs - Outro
• Project Schedule
• Gantt Chart (months)
• Gantt Chart (weeks)
• Budget - Simple Table
• Budget - Time & Materials 1
• Budget - Time & Materials 2
• Formatting Tips & Tricks
• MS Excel for Project Management: Conclusions

15. Agile project management

• Waterfall
• A different kind of project
• Where Waterfall falls short
• Introducing Agile
• Agile project structure
• Product Development in Agile

16. SCRUM

• Complex Work in Projects
• SCRUM: A History Lesson
• SCRUM Theory and Structure
• SCRUM Artifacts: Product Backlog
• User Stories
• EPICs
• SCRUM Artifacts: The Increment. Technical tasks and Product Releases
• The "MVP" of a Project
• SCRUM Roles: Product Owner
• SCRUM Roles: Development Team
• SCRUM Roles: The Scrum Master
• SCRUM Events

17. Agile vs Waterfall

• Agile vs Waterfall - Comparison
• Agile vs Waterfall - Analysis
• Agile vs Waterfall - Conclusion