Project management for Beginners

Hello and welcome

In this course, I have covered the basics of project management.

If you are someone who is new, who is just starting or interested in starting a career in project management, this is the course for you.

Topic Covered

• What is a project
• Where do projects come from
• Project constants
• How do you define project success
• What is Project Management
• Program and portfolios
• Project manager
• Organizational structure
• Project Management office
• project stakeholder
• project management life cycle
• project management processes

  Initiation

  Planning

  Execution

  Monitoring and controlling

  Closing

  What Is Project Management?
  Project management involves the planning and organization of a company's resources to move a specific task, event, or duty towards completion. It can involve a one-time project or an ongoing activity, and resources managed include personnel, finances, technology, and intellectual property.
  
  Project management is often associated with fields in engineering and construction and, more lately, health care and information technology (IT), which typically have a complex set of components that have to be completed and assembled in a set fashion to create a functioning product.
  
  No matter what the industry is, the project manager tends to have roughly the same job: to help define the goals and objectives of the project and determine when the various project components are to be completed and by whom. They also create quality control checks to ensure completed components meet a certain standard.
  
  Understanding Project Management
  Generally speaking, the project management process includes the following stages: planning, initiation, execution, monitoring, and closing.
  
  From start to finish, every project needs a plan that outlines how things will get off the ground, how they will be built, and how they will finish. For example, in architecture, the plan starts with an idea, progresses to drawings, and moves on to blueprint drafting, with thousands of little pieces coming together between each step. The architect is just one person providing one piece of the puzzle. The project manager puts it all together.
  
  Every project usually has a budget and a time frame. Project management keeps everything moving smoothly, on time, and on budget. That means when the planned time frame is coming to an end, the project manager may keep all the team members working on the project to finish on schedule.