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.
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Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
This course is part of Project Management: Tools, Approaches, Behavioural Skills Specialization
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Identify the main phases of a project in a business context.
Pick the right tools to plan a project when working on it.
Make a plan of a project when working on it.
Analyze the results of a planning process when working on a project.
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Reviewed on Jun 12, 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.
Reviewed on Mar 16, 2022
My knowledge on project management was expanded with this course. I really enjoyed, highly recommended :)
Reviewed on May 3, 2024
This course was very helpful to understand the theories of project management. It is described very clearly so that one can get it easily and fast.
Recommended if you're interested in Business
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