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Course Assessment All course units have a short quiz or other activities to help you review and practice your learning. You can attempt these as…
Course Assessment All course units have a short quiz or other activities to help you review and practice your learning. You can attempt these as…
https://vimeo.com/735692608 Welcome to the Project Management Framework course. This is a self-directed learning programme designed to help you develop new skills at your own pace.…
https://vimeo.com/747656552 So, what’s next? There’s been a lot covered in this course. Here are some suggestions for your next steps in project management: Reflection on…
Review of Learning Outcomes When we started the course, our objectives were to develop knowledge about the following points: Recognise a common language of project…
https://vimeo.com/747335945 And that is the end of our case studies! We walked through the DigiControl Ltd 2-day strategy conference project, and we gave you the…
https://vimeo.com/752900917 This video shows how the New Garden Project can be created in Microsoft Project. The demonstration shows how to re-create the New Garden Project…
Over to you Traditional project management attempts to predict the future. This is where we create a plan of what we think should happen, and…
Over to you Communication is a big job for the Project manager. Effective communication is required for any project’s success. There is a file available…
Over to you We have come a long way in this project plan – we have clear objectives in the project charter, a budget, and…
Over to you The milestone schedule extracts only the key milestones from the project. The image below shows you an example of a milestone schedule…
Over to you The project team needs a schedule plan for the work they will be involved in. In this exercise, you will produce a…
Over to you In this exercise, you will estimate the tasks’ durations and build a network diagram for the project. In order to build a…
Over to you The first step in this exercise is to create the dependencies between the work phases. Here are some logical rules to do…
Over to you In this exercise, you will build a Budget for the project. Please download the file with the budget instructions and complete the…
Over to you In this exercise, you will build a Responsibility Assignment Matrix, or RACI Chart. The following roles make up the Project Team: Garden…
Over to you Using the Project Charter Model Answer as a guide, brainstorm the activities/tasks required to complete this project. If you wish, you can…
Over to you In this exercise, you will start building the Stakeholder Register of your project. Please download and complete the template attached to the…
Over to you You have been asked to manage a project to design and landscape the rear garden area of a house. From your initial…
It’s time to look at the New Garden Project Case Study and start putting in practice what we have learned on the course. In this…
https://vimeo.com/755587996 In this section, we will walk together through the first case study. We will apply our toolkit of 11 tools to the case study…
https://vimeo.com/755584849 In Unit 4 we will be looking at two case studies: Digicontrol Ltd Project. For this case study, we will do a walkthrough of…
https://vimeo.com/735736813 In Unit 3, we covered ten project management knowledge areas, and also some concepts about the change management process. We also listed some tools…
Resistance to Change We have talked about making changes to the project plan, and the effect of changes through the knowledge areas we have covered…
https://vimeo.com/736109463 Project Stakeholder Management is about identifying the people, the groups, and the organisations that could be or are impacted by the project. It is…
https://vimeo.com/736080198 Project Communications Management is about planning communications, distributing information, reporting, and basically keeping our stakeholders informed of what is happening in the project. Communication…
https://vimeo.com/755575904 Project Resource Management is about identifying, acquiring, and managing the resources to complete the project. We need to ensure we have the resources to…
https://vimeo.com/715508178 There are few processes required during Project Procurement Management in order to get in goods and services from outside of our organisation. We need…
https://vimeo.com/755551173 Project Risk Management is about the processes concerned with identifying, analysing, and responding to or controlling project risks. Plan Risk Management. The process of…
https://vimeo.com/755538452 Project Integration Management is a subset of processes that make sure everything in the project fits together: Develop Project Charter. The process of developing…
https://vimeo.com/715506877 We are now in our fourth knowledge area which is quality management. These are the processes required to make sure that the project satisfies…
https://vimeo.com/756686527 In this topic, we will learn how to build a budget to working out how much a project actually costs. In Project Schedule Management…
https://vimeo.com/755530111 Project schedule management is about understanding the project’s schedule so that we can finish the project on time. Schedule management is just part of…
https://vimeo.com/756685941 Project Scope Management is about the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to…
https://vimeo.com/715506026 Over 20 years or so, the Project Management Institute (PMI) developed the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) to effectively…
https://vimeo.com/735721371 We have reached the end of Unit 2. In this unit we have covered important concepts about the project life cycle and the main…
Completing the Self-assessment Before starting Unit 3, attempt the Team Role and Work Phase Self-assessment. As with all self-assessment questionnaires, it could be argued that…
Plan the End of the Project Inherently, we do not plan the end of a project in as much detail as we do at the…
https://vimeo.com/755495675 In the Monitoring and Controlling Process is when we can find big reasons for projects to fail, such as: Poorly defined objectives Poor communication…
https://vimeo.com/756683659 In the Executing Process, we need to manage the resources as we execute the plan in order to achieve the project’s objectives and respond…
Planning is a lot more than scheduling In the Planning Process, we will write down what we will be doing in the project. This will…
https://vimeo.com/735712165 The purpose of the Initiating Process is to commit the organisation to the project, and define the high-level deliverables and the project scope. We…
https://vimeo.com/755475372 As we move through the process groups, there are different amounts of efforts involved. Even though the processes are shown as consecutive, there will…
https://vimeo.com/715491904 Let’s take a look at the five main project management Process Groups. This is a logical grouping of project management processes. Each of these…
PMI BoK 6 vs BoK 7 Welcome to Unit 2. The main purpose of unit 2 is to look at the 5 main project management…
https://vimeo.com/735711101 This first unit has set the scene around the world of project management. We looked at some project management definitions, and we investigated different…
The Four Organisational Structures The people on our projects are often the defining factor of whether the project ends in success or failure – how…
What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is sometimes referred to as EQ and opposed to IQ. EQ allows you to develop positive relationships. Relationships with…
https://vimeo.com/755450096 In this topic we will be discussing the Bruce Tuckman’s Team Development Model. Projects are delivered by people, and people work well in teams.…
https://vimeo.com/755449600 We have talked about the importance of developing interpersonal skills, being a project leader, and being capable of developing the project team. The Team…
https://vimeo.com/755447115 Project management is about dealing with people. As such, communication is an important skill set. Managing the inevitable conflict between stakeholders requires good facilitation…
https://vimeo.com/706904882 Project manager have a lot to do and time management is a big issue. We will share with you some tips on time management…
https://vimeo.com/755445211 Project managers have so much to achieve – they need to deliver on time, on budget, and keep all stakeholders satisfied. These stakeholders may…
https://vimeo.com/706904445 Which of these situations is better? Can you run a successful project if you have got excellent project management qualifications, but no interpersonal skills…
How can we get our objectives clear? The biggest reason for project failure is often unclear or unagreed objectives. To get clear objectives for a…
Why do companies run projects? Projects are often run either to make or to save money. There are a few other reasons, but ‘make or…
https://vimeo.com/735699734 Projects are only going to get bigger and more complex. Being able to manage projects will add value to the business. Manage projects successfully,…
https://vimeo.com/735699728 The Project Management Office (PMO) serves the needs of the project managers and the projects. They do not get directly involved in delivering projects.…
https://vimeo.com/755439169 We are going to think about higher level project management now – at an organisational level. Project management includes both strategy and tactics. Ideally,…
https://vimeo.com/735696524 Eddie Obeng suggested that there are 4 types of projects: Type 1: Painting by NumbersIn this type of project, we know what we have…
https://vimeo.com/735696520 There are three main project management approaches: Predictive Adaptive Hybrid Predictive Project Management Historically, we have done predictive or traditional – sometimes also called…
What is a Project? The textbook definition of a project is that it is “a project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique…
Project Management Standards and Certifications In the last 30+ years, the Institute has been actively engaged and involved in bringing to professionals world-class training and…
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