What’s Next?

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…

Let’s Review

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…

Summary of Unit 4

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…

Microsoft Project Demonstration

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…

Exercise 12: Change Management

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…

Exercise 11: Communication Management

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…

Exercise 10: Risk Management

Over to you We have come a long way in this project plan – we have clear objectives in the project charter, a budget, and…

Exercise 9: Milestone Schedule

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…

Exercise 8: Gantt Chart

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…

Exercise 6: Dependency Chart

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…

Exercise 5: Budget

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…

Exercise 4: Responsibility Matrix

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…

Exercise 3: Work Breakdown Structure

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…

Exercise 2: Stakeholder Register

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…

Exercise 1: Project Charter

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…

Case Study: New Garden Project

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…

Case Study: Digicontrol Ltd

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…

A Project Management Toolkit

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…