Project Management and its Role in Effective Business

What is project management? What are the key principles of project management? What factors influence the project's state?

This ExpertTrack's first course on project management will give you the opportunity to find the answers.

This course will cover all aspects of project management including applied and theoretical perspectives. You'll also learn how to account for constraints like cost, time, and resources.

Learn the skills and role of project managers, as well as how to further your professional career by taking advantage of the opportunities.

Additionally, you will learn how to show competence in the selection and start of a project within an organizational context.

You'll learn how to be successful in project management by looking at a typical day of project managers.

This course will cover the skills required to be successful in agile project management, phase and extended life cycle management, as well as the core competencies you need to succeed in this role.

How do you become a professional project manager. What are their methods of success?

This course covers project planning, communication and stakeholder engagement.

Gantts are visual representations of tasks over time . They allow for efficient project tracking and scheduling from implementation through completion.

This course will teach you how to create project plans. Learn why planning is important, how to estimate activities' duration, network diagrams, and how to make a Gantt chart.

Engaging with stakeholders is crucial to maintaining a plan. You will discover how to engage with them and explore the various areas of stakeholder management – from identification and creating communication plans to the power interest grid. This method is used to classify stakeholders based upon their influence, power, and interest in a particular project.

We'll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the power-interest matrix when it comes to identifying stakeholders and communicating your business.

Good project management starts with good risk management. This short course will teach you everything you need about managing risk and controlling your projects. This course is designed to give you the skills necessary for monitoring project performance, identifying risks and dealing with potential threats to a successful outcome. You'll be guided by experts from Coventry to understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative risk analyses (including the Probability & Impact Matrix) and how to create risk-management plans.

Learn how to manage risks and resolve discrepancies in the project's scope, cost, and schedule. All aspects of risk and control management will be covered, including risk identification, categorisation, and response to the PRAM process (or Project Risk Analysis and Management). Learn how to perform earned value analysis (EVA), and how to use Probability and Impact Matrix. Microsoft Project is a must-have if you are interested in controlling risk. This article will show you how Microsoft Project can be used to create a schedule, assign tasks to resources, track progress, and analyze workloads. Then, we'll discuss its challenges and benefits in planning, executing, and closing projects.

How does the project relate to the organization hosting it? This course covers issues that impact companies involved in project management. It will cover topics such as ethics, professionalism, global project management, and context.

The execution of organizational strategies is key through the use of projects. However, the environment that the company creates for these projects will determine its effectiveness.

Portfolio, program, and project management are the application of techniques and methods to meet a set of defined objectives. Learn how P3M management is used in various situations.

Every organisation must consider the economic, social and environmental aspects of future projects. This course will help you to understand the importance of sustainability, and how to create a more ethical and productive work environment while still delivering on time.

Agility is the ability to quickly react to unpredicted situations and to respond to uncertain requirements in the context of product development.

This course will teach you how to apply the principles and values agile to project management.

Additionally, you will have the chance to create a working approach that includes all the steps, activities, and participant roles required for an agile project. You'll also learn how to mobilize the right resources and tools.

Waterfall project management is linear in nature, while agile is continuous development and testing.

Both styles of project management will be explored and you'll learn how to manage uncertainty and risk within the context of each.

Scrum is an agile method that helps teams work together and facilitates projects. This methodology encourages self-organization, learning from experience and continuous reflection on losses and wins in order to improve.

This course will cover the role of scrum as project management. It will also include exercises, events, and quizzes that will help you master this method of working. Finally, we'll discuss how timeboxing (allocating time) can be used in a scrum environment.