Project Management

Learn to balance your time, costs, and resources successfully.

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Hi, this is Sherry Petro. Welcome to Project Management Essentials. What are we going to be talking about today? Well, truly, the basics of how do you manage a project? Whether it's a $100,000 project or a multi-million dollar project, we've got some of the basics that we'll be sharing with you that will give you an idea of how do you take an idea from conceptualization all the way to fruition. So, let's get started. But before we do, remember, there's some instructions here. You can access our course manual through the Project Management page where you opened this instruction. You can pause, rewind, just make sure that you get the maximum value out of your participation today. So, what are you hoping to learn? I can tell you what my basic objectives are. As a strategist, I always have to have something that at the very end, I can tick off and say, we have achieved something. That's a hint about one of the things that a project manager does most of all. We'll get into it in a few moments. I wanted to find the basics of project management for you. What are all of the things, the skills, the tools, the attributes that really great project managers have, and how can you develop some of those for yourself? Determine the challenges, and if you have been managing projects for a while, I bet you're going to have a few things to contribute here. I'm also going to be offering some solutions on how to overcome those challenges. We're going to be sharing best practices that other project managers have offered throughout the years. We're going to be talking about the 20 activities that an excellent project manager integrates into their project. You're going to leave here knowing how you can take something from the idea all the way to the end and do it well, communicating effectively with your team and achieving the result that you're hoping to get. I gave you a few hints there, but I'm hoping that you're going to take a few minutes and answer this question. Feel free to pull out your manual and on the second page or the third page. Think about what you are really hoping to learn. You're going to be spending valuable time. What are you hoping to get out of this? You can pause right here, so hopefully you thought long and hard about what you were hoping to get out of today. Setting an intention, having a purpose, is one of the very first things that a project manager needs to have. Why bother getting the team together if we don't know what the intent is? It's also helpful to keep, just like I'm going to ask you to keep, your intention front and center. One of the hints that I'll share with you right off the bat, when you have your project team meetings, make sure that you have the intention, whether it be on the whiteboard or on your agendas, something that everybody can lean into saying, all right, this is what we're all together for. This is the result that we're hoping to achieve. One thing right off the bat, it's important for you to understand what you want to learn, it's your intention, and that's one of our very first lessons for today.

Essential Provider : Sherri Petro 27 Lessons · 2h 6m in Arabic, English

Course Description

Executing successful projects comes with a wide array of obstacles to overcome. Learning how to properly initiate, plan, and execute successful projects continues to be an important business skill, regardless of occupation. This course teaches how to accomplish projects by better understand balancing the constraints of time, cost, and resources. Additionally, this course also covers the five stages of successful project management.

What You'll Learn

Initiate, plan, and execute successful projects from start to finish
Balance the constraints of time, cost, and resources to deliver projects
Apply the five stages of project management to organize work
Use project management techniques such as event chain methodology and process-based management
Carry out monitoring and controlling activities including quality, communication, and problem solving
Close projects effectively using final tips and techniques to ensure success

Key Takeaways

Learning to properly initiate, plan, and execute projects is an important business skill regardless of occupation.
Successful project execution depends on balancing the constraints of time, cost, and resources.
The course covers the five stages of successful project management.
Project work spans initiating, planning and executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Coordinating, communicating, teambuilding, and facilitating results are part of planning and executing projects.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this Project Management course for?

It is for anyone who needs project management as a business skill, since the course notes that learning to initiate, plan, and execute successful projects is important regardless of occupation.

What does this course cover?

It teaches how to accomplish projects by better balancing the constraints of time, cost, and resources, and covers the five stages of successful project management.

What skills will I gain from this course?

You will build skills in financial project management, implementing projects, project management, the project management life cycle, project planning, and project-based solutions.

What topics are included in the lessons?

Lessons cover what project management is, project management techniques, the six phases of a project, event chain methodology, process-based management, initiating, planning and executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.