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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.
What's included
6 videos2 readings1 assignment
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6 videos•Total 37 minutes
Project Life-Cycle•8 minutes
The Initiating phase•7 minutes
The central role of Planning•7 minutes
Introducing the style project•2 minutes
Scope definition and scope changes•6 minutes
Scope creep and Gold plating•5 minutes
2 readings•Total 60 minutes
A case study: the S.T.Y.L.E. project•30 minutes
Activity 1 - The scope statement•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 1 - Quiz•30 minutes
Project planning
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
What's included
9 videos4 readings1 assignment
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9 videos•Total 56 minutes
The Work Breakdown Structure•6 minutes
The feed-forward approach•5 minutes
The role of milestones•5 minutes
The rolling wave approach•4 minutes
The OBS and RAM•8 minutes
Duration and cost of an activity•5 minutes
The Gantt Chart•11 minutes
The organizational feasibility•6 minutes
Planning costs•5 minutes
4 readings•Total 120 minutes
Activity 2 - The WBS•30 minutes
Activity 3 - The OBS•30 minutes
Activity 4 - The RAM•30 minutes
Activity 5 - The Gantt Chart•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 2 - Quiz•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 :)
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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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Reviewed on Mar 13, 2023
It was great and immense amount of knowledge. Great insights for Project Management and Life cycle of a project.
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