Project Management Courses – Back to Basics

Do you manage projects? How would you know? This lesson is designed to define exactly what a project is and how it fits in to the other work on your plate and your organization. You will view the previously separate activities as a project to manage is a concise way.

Projects large and small can be found in any organization. How you determine to work your project will be dictated by how your organization runs. This lesson will help you determine what type of organization for which you work and how to use that information to plan for success.

Now that you know whether you are dealing with a project or not, it’s time to understand who’s responsible for the work. In this lesson you will learn the role of the roles that are responsible to carrying out the work of the project.

To move a project across the finish line is a monumental task. In this lesson you will learn how to best divide you project into manageable sections that will help to move your project from beginning to successful end.

The schedule of activities of a project is where most of the action happens. It is very important to take a well formed list of activities and a strong idea of the order in which they should be completed. In this lesson, you will document and sequence the activities from you work break-down structure.

At some point in the project you will next to request resources to get the job done. In this lesson, you will explore how to go about estimating how much of the who, what, when, why based on the activities of the project.

Just as documenting and understanding the work that is required for a project is important, so is putting a schedule in writing. In this lesson, you will develop your project’s schedule using the information from lesson’s 1 and 2.

Changes from your original project plans are inevitable! In this lesson you, you will learn in this lesson how to track the changes in your projects schedule and compare them against the original schedule. We will explore duration baselines and schedule variances.

Determining and controlling the cost of a project often determines its success. We have all heard that the goal is bring a project in ahead of schedule and under-budget. In this lesson, you estimate the cost of the project and how you need to spend that money for best outcomes.

Now that you have an idea of where the costs of the project lie, you now need to make a budget. In this lesson, you will you will determine how much of the total cost goes to accomplishing the project goals and determine cost baselines.

Changes from your original project budget is inevitable. Determining and budgeting project costs are just the beginning of the management of Project costs. In this lesson, you will track costs and schedule as the project progresses and compare them against the projects original budget, referred to as the cost baseline.

Understanding how your costs are being consumed and using that information to drive decisions will continue throughout the life of the project. In this lesson, you will use project information to control cost, review performance, monitor variances, make forecasts. Understanding how your costs are being consumed and using that information to drive decisions will continue throughout the life of the project.

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Gathering and Documenting Risks

Using analysis tools to understand risk.

Strategies for dealing with risk.

The process of managing project risks