Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
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Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
This course is part of Project Management: Tools, Approaches, Behavioural Skills Specialization
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What you'll learn
Identify the main phases of a project in a business context.
Pick the right tools to plan a project when working on it.
Make a plan of a project when working on it.
Analyze the results of a planning process when working on a project.
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Project Management is a fundamental theme to understand and work in any business environments. One of the main skills that Project Managers need to have deals with the ability to manage the project during its entire life-cycle and to plan the work needed to achieve the final result. During the course, the various phases of a typical project are presented. Then, various practical tools are presented aiming to help professionals in actually manage their projects through useful instruments. Among the others, the Scope Statement helps managers in identifying and clearly define what is and what is not part of the project, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) helps in identifying the activities, the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) in managing the team, the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) to match activities and people, while the Gantt Chart provides a time-based view on the project.
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6 videos2 readings1 assignment
6 videosβ’Total 37 minutes
- Project Life-Cycleβ’8 minutes
- The Initiating phaseβ’7 minutes
- The central role of Planningβ’7 minutes
- Introducing the style projectβ’2 minutes
- Scope definition and scope changesβ’6 minutes
- Scope creep and Gold platingβ’5 minutes
2 readingsβ’Total 60 minutes
- A case study: the S.T.Y.L.E. projectβ’30 minutes
- Activity 1 - The scope statementβ’30 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Week 1 - Quizβ’30 minutes
What's included
9 videos4 readings1 assignment
9 videosβ’Total 56 minutes
- The Work Breakdown Structureβ’6 minutes
- The feed-forward approachβ’5 minutes
- The role of milestonesβ’5 minutes
- The rolling wave approachβ’4 minutes
- The OBS and RAMβ’8 minutes
- Duration and cost of an activityβ’5 minutes
- The Gantt Chartβ’11 minutes
- The organizational feasibilityβ’6 minutes
- Planning costsβ’5 minutes
4 readingsβ’Total 120 minutes
- Activity 2 - The WBSβ’30 minutes
- Activity 3 - The OBSβ’30 minutes
- Activity 4 - The RAMβ’30 minutes
- Activity 5 - The Gantt Chartβ’30 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Week 2 - Quizβ’30 minutes
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Reviewed on Mar 15, 2022
My knowledge on project management was expanded with this course. I really enjoyed, highly recommended :)
Reviewed on Oct 11, 2022
Eβexcellently delivered. concepts well explained and knowledge very impactful for career growth and development
Reviewed on Jun 11, 2024
Gives a lot of important principles for PM. Unfortunately, the exercise solutions are not available, so there is no feedback regarding the practical task assigned during the course.
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