Practical Project Management for Managers and First Time PMs

Learn Project management so you can deliver your next project be on time, on budget, and to requirements.

Created by: Mike Clayton
Real World Trainer in Personal Effectiveness

What Will I Learn?

• Understand how projects work and be able to control your project process
• Deploy some of the main ways to avoid budget and schedule over-runs
• Define your project precisely, for your benefit and everyone else's
• Establish a clear scope, so you can combat the dreaded 'scope creep'
• Deal effectively with supporters, critics and bystanders
• Create time scales on getting the job done using milestone planning
• Be able to use the world's favourite project planning tool: the Gantt chart
• Achieve fair and effective allocation of project responsibilities
• Get the most from your team: motivation, collaboration and communication
• Predict problems and plan your responses
• Be able to assess which risks to deal with first
• Assess which risks to deal with first
• Apply all six strategies for action on risks available to use
• Stay in control when people change their minds
• Deliver your project on budget, on target, and on time
• Complete the three key tasks to finally close down your project

Requirements

• You won't need any software or materials other than your preferred note-taking device (pen & paper, Evernote or OneNote, or anything in between. You can even use Udemy's built-in note taking tools (which are private to you).
• If you have any experience of projects at all, that is absolutely fine. If you do have experience, bring it with you as you watch the videos. If you don't, bring your common sense.

Target audience

• new and want-to-be project managers
• project managers who have had no formal training and who want to start to formalise what you have learned on the job
• beginners and also for intermediates with a few projects under your belt
• managers and professionals who are starting to need to deliver projects as a part of your day-to-day responsibilities
• This course will give you a great legup if you need to get involved in your first project... in any capacity