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Overview
Do you manage projects, or want to enter a new project management role? This online course is ideally suited for anyone looking to better manage their projects for work, including project managers, business owners or those looking to start out in project management.
In 48 engaging lessons you will learn how to effectively manage projects from start to finish through a range of topics including scope, schedule and resource planning, project risk, execution and control plus more.
The Project Management for Business Professionals course has all of the modules in the Project Management for Team Members course, plus an additional 23 modules focused on Project Management for Business Professionals. (So you don't need to take the Team Members course separately.)
- Learn to manage your projects more effectively.
- Get a better understanding of project management principles.
- Based on The Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) - Sixth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2017.
- Use this as a stepping stone to embark on a project management career.
- Earn 24 PDUs or contact hours toward your Project Management education for certification with PMI.
We have a range of project management courses to suit your needs. Try our courses for Engineers or Experts. If you’re preparing for the PMP® Exam, look no further than PMP® Certification Training. And if you want an introductory course, try our Basics or Team Members courses.
Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.
Summary
Skill level
Intermediate
Certificate
Yes
Lessons
48
Accredited by
CPD
Pre-requisites
None
Video duration
3h 57m
Estimated study time
24h for all materials
Accreditations and approvals
GoSkills has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute(PMI)®.
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Syllabus
Project Management Context
Triple Constraint
Understand the inter-relationship between the triple constraints on a project of scope, schedule, and resources.
Circles of Project Management
Circles of project management are a framework for considering different project management aspects. Based upon project and organizational considerations, some aspects may be emphasized and others de-emphasized.
Project Leader
Know the role and responsibilities of the project leader.
Core Team
Most large projects are managed by a cross-functional core team. Core team members have a dual responsibility; they are responsible for the project achieving its goals and they are responsible to ensure that the project complies with their function’s standards and best practices.
Stakeholders
Know how to identify stakeholders and understand how they measure project success.
Project Lifecycle
Understand the phases of a project lifecycle and know how to approach a predictive project versus an adaptive project.
Project Management Methodology
A methodology or system of project management helps those in the organization involved with projects to know what to expect.
Project Initiation
Stakeholder Identification
Identifying stakeholders enables the project team to create a strategy for communicating and interacting with each stakeholder.
Stakeholder Project Goals
Many stakeholders have additional goals for a project beyond the primary business goal. Understanding those goals can help the team ensure project success and maintain stakeholder support.
Project Boundaries
Learn how to quickly identify project boundaries using the W questions.
In-Frame and Out-of-Frame
In-Frame/Out-of-Frame is a technique for clarifying project boundaries by listing the activities and deliverables that are in scope for the project as well as the activities that are not required as part of the project.
Scope Planning
Primary Constraint
The approach taken when planning a project should be based upon the primary project constraint. Attributes of that constraint are planned first and then other aspects of the project are planned to support the primary constraint.
Phases
Projects are often organized into phases. Phases provide structure and logic to the project and aid the project team and management to track progress.
Deliverables Deployment
Learn how to identify project tasks and activities using the deliverables deployment technique.
Task Description
Task Descriptions are the statements of scope for each of the project activities. They are written in the format of “action – completion point.”
WBS Dictionary
The WBS Dictionary is a table or spreadsheet that is organized by project task and contains all project planning details.
Schedule Planning
Milestone Schedule
Understand when and how to use a milestone schedule on a project. Learn how to create a milestone schedule.
Gantt Chart
Understand when and how to use a Gantt chart on a project. Learn how to create a Gantt chart.
Task List Schedule
A Task List Schedule is a schedule format used to communicate tasks with dates to extended team members or those who do not have a major role in the project.
Kanban Schedule
A Kanban Schedule is a project scheduling tool for managing a batch of similar items that must be processed through the same project steps.
Resource Planning
Project Budget
Understand what is normally shown in a project budget. Learn how to create a time-phased project budget.
Resource List
The project Resource List is a list of all individuals working on the project with their contact information and all special equipment and facilities required to accomplish project tasks.
Responsibility Matrix
The Responsibility Matrix is a project management tool for correlating project work assignments with project team members.
Estimating
Estimating Uncertainty
Project plans are built with an accumulation of estimates, each of which has a level of uncertainty associated with it. The level of uncertainty is a major contributor to the accuracy of the plan and the amount of project risk.
Estimating Techniques
The most commonly used techniques for creating project estimates are analogous estimates, bottom up estimates, three point estimates, and using a parametric model.
Effort - Duration - Money
Project estimates of effort, duration, and money are inter-related. Based upon the cost and availability of the resources involved, once you have one of the estimates you can derive the other two.
Time-Box Estimating
Time Boxes are an estimating technique that sets a finite time for a task or task group. The amount of scope that is completed is variable. Whatever scope is done when the time box ends is the amount of scope for that activity on the project.
Project Risk
Positive and Negative Risk
Understand the difference between positive and negative risk. Learn the major steps of project risk management.
Risk Identification
The practice of identifying positive and negative conditions that may occur within the project and impact project objectives.
Risk Matrix
All project risks are not equal in their effect on a project. Project risks that have been identified are prioritized using qualitative techniques such as the Risk Matrix.
Sensitivity Analysis
The Risk Sensitivity Analysis is a technique to assess the magnitude of impact from a risk.
Negative Risk Response
Negative Risk Response is determining what actions the project will take to address risk threats.
Positive Risk Response
Positive Risk Response is determining what actions the project will take to address risk opportunities.
Contingencies and Triggers
Contingencies are potential risk response actions that will only be implemented if some triggering event or condition has shown that the risk probability has gone from unlikely to likely.
Project Execution
Team Building
Learn the characteristics of a project core team and understand the stages of a team building lifecycle.
Communication Management
Understand the characteristics of the major categories of project communication. Know the communication constraints typically encountered on project.
Project Decision-Making
Project Decision Making is the process whereby the project leader and project team decide upon project strategy, tactics, and acceptable actions. For Project Stakeholders, the decisions normally concern project boundaries. For Project Core Team members, the decisions normally concern project plans and execution.
Team Meetings
Team Meetings are a gathering of team members to discuss aspects of the project. Team pulse meetings focus on status. Team problem solving meetings focus on problem resolution.
Task Accountability
Task Accountability is the project management activity associated with ensuring successful completion of project activities.
Contractors and Vendors Execution
Contractors and vendors are often used to accomplish project tasks. The complexity, uniqueness, and uncertainty of the activity will determine the nature of the relationship between the project team and the contractor or vendor.
Project Control
Dashboards
Learn how to create and use a project dashboard to communicate project status with both management and your project team.
Management Reviews
Understand the purpose of a project management review and learn how to prepare for one.
Scope Creep
Scope creep is the uncontrolled expansion to project scope without adjustments to time, cost, and resources.
Issue Resolution
Issues are any request, complaint, or unexpected condition that leads to unplanned, but in scope, work that must be accomplished on a project. They normally result in the need to implement a workaround in order to resolve them.
Project Change
A formal documented process for changing the project baseline.
Project Closeout
Stakeholder Acceptance
Understand how to gain stakeholder acceptance during project closeout and learn how to create and use a Punch List.
Transition to Business
To fully realize the benefit of a project, often business systems need to change to implement the project results. This transition can be a challenging aspect of the project.
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned are a retrospective look at a project, or phase of a project, to identify best practices to be repeated and performance gaps to be improved.
