Top 10 Project Management Lessons Learned – Earn 2 PDU’s

Take a 25 year career shortcut with the ten most important lessons learned in Project Management.

Created by: William Stewart PhD, PMP, PPM
Project management made practical

What Will I Learn?

• "Outstanding course with priceless pragmatic wisdom – these are the lessons that guarantee project success." – Ken Semerkant, PMP
• How the Project Manager can use accountability to become the most powerful and relaxed person on the project.
• The magic sentence the PM can use that will maximize the chances of the organization giving you what you need.
• Why defining the Work Breakdown Structure of deliverables makes everything else in PM easy.
• How I talked a senior, reluctant, aggressive, and arrogant team into being WBS believers.
• A real example of a WBS my team developed for a $140M aerospace project.
• Mathematical proof of how powerful best practice process is.
• A real example of a Precedence Diagram my team developed for a $140M aerospace project.
• Why risk management makes the entire PM process work, with essential risk planning tips.
• Eight common risks it is always worth considering including in your project’s risk register.
• Essential tips for monitoring and controling the risk budget as you proceed through your project.
• How to defend keeping as much of your risk budget as possible when you are under pressure to give some up.
• The two big advantages of deriving the requirements from a higher level description of user workflow.
• A story about how backfitting a set of user scenarios at relatively little cost helped reduce millions of dollars of acceptance risk.
• Why closing is a separate, organized set of project activities.
• An embarrassing story about not formally closing a project procurement, and the process that would have prevented it.
• A very useful story about a PM that made all three of the most common mistakes in project management.
• The huge benefits of keeping your eye on the top three drivers of project success.
• How the PM broadcasting an optimistic and success oriented attitude to the entire team helps maximize project success.
• An example of how believing a solution existed, even though we didn’t know what it was, enabled us to shorten a schedule by six months.
• A story of how I told the truth when my boss asked me to do something impossible, even though he obviously did not want to hear it.
• The three big advantages I gained from repeatedly telling the truth, for my project, my boss, and my own reputation and career.

Requirements

• This course will provide anyone with a deep understanding of how to ensure they are successful as a Project Manager.

Target audience

• Anyone that would like to understand the mindset, responsibilities, and real life experience of the successful Project Manager in challenging environments.