Improve your Project Management Effectiveness

In this 5–day course, you’ll discover the fundamentals of project management by watching videos of project failures and learning the fundamental principles that would have prevented them. You’ll gain a practical understanding of the ten knowledge areas that underscore sound project management practice, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, communication, risk, resource, procurement, integration, and stakeholder management. You’ll also learn to apply these knowledge areas through the project life cycle. You’ll learn when and how to adopt an agile mindset to exploit its benefits on traditional predictive projects and non-traditional agile projects. Participants will be provided templates they can customize and use immediately to improve their project workflow. Participants prepping for PMP certification will gain valuable insights from the latest exam prep material.

You'll Learn To:

• Increase your probability of meeting business objectives
• Provide better forecasting
• Describe effective mays to manage and satisfy stakeholder expectations
• Describe effective ways to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Describe tactics for responding to risks in a timely manner
• Explain ways to optimize organizational resources
• Describe ways to mitigate project failure and recover failing projects
• Describe effective ways to manage conflicting priorities in terms of project scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk
• Describe effective ways to manage change on predictive and agile projects
• Describe the key distinctions between agile, waterfall and hybrid projects
• Explain how to apply ten project management knowledge areas in traditional predictive projects and non-traditional agile projects
• Describe tactics for navigating project politics
• Describe ways to influence without authority
• Set proper expectations at the start of your project
• Improve stakeholder understanding of your project
• Describe an effective structure for detecting risks and issues
• Describe tactics for mitigating project issues and delays
• Identify five power sources you can leverage to negotiate quicker delivery dates
• Describe effective structures for organized reporting and risk tracking
• Explain the use cases for project management artifacts such as issue logs, risk registers, requirement documents, project charters and stakeholder engagement artifacts
• Identify when to consider an agile or hybrid or traditional project management approach
• Adopt an agile mindset