Welcome to the course! Introduction to projects and Project Management
  • What does the course cover?
  • What is a Project?
  • Why do companies execute projects?
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  • What creates the demand for projects? Prioritization and selection of projects
  • What is a Project Manager? What is their commitment in a project?
  • What are the skills and the knowledge a Project Manager must have?
  • Projects: a History lessson
  • Project management terminology
  • Introduction Quiz
The project phases
  • How does a project start and how does it evolve? What a project's main stages?
The initiation phase
  • What is the Initiation Phase about? Define the project goals
  • What is involved in a business case?
  • What does scope cover?
  • Who performs the feasibility study and what does it involve?
  • What goes into risk assessment? What are expectations?
  • How to create a Project Charter?
  • Case Study 1
  • Initiation Phase
The planning phase
  • What is Planning? Why is it important? What happens if it is not done correctly?
  • Why is Planning so critical in Project management?
  • What is the cost of Change in projects?
  • What to do before you start?
  • Project management insights
  • Scope Planning
  • Scope Planning (continued)
  • Planning - Intro & Scope
The planning phase - timelines and schedules
  • How to estimate when planning?
  • The planning fallacy, optimism bias, illlusion of control
  • How much to buffer?
  • Identifying dependencies
  • Planning - Estimation and Dependencies
  • Identifying the critical path
  • Using the Gantt chart to plan the project work streams
  • Building the project schedule (+ MS Project tutorial)
  • How to build a milestone table and its uses
  • Planning - CPM and Gantt
The planning phase - cost
  • The process of budgeting
  • The process of budgeting (continued)
  • Procurement contract types
  • Procuring non-financial resources
  • Planning HR
  • RACI matrix - assigning roles
  • Quality requirements
  • Planning - Budgeting, R&R, Quality
The planning phase - Expectations, Assumptions and Risks
  • Planning expectations management
  • How to control assumptions
  • Planning Risk management
  • Building a Risk log
The planning phase - Change process
  • How to deal with and record change requests
  • Planning - Risk and Change Management
The execution phase - Meetings
  • Introduction to Execution and KO Meetings
  • What is involved in a kick-off meeting
  • Tips to handle meetings
The execution phase - Project Diary
  • What is action-owner due date
  • Filling in the project diary
The execution phase - Managing the team and work
  • How the Project Manager manages tasks
  • How the Project Manager manages the team
  • Execution
The monitoring and control phase
  • What is monitoring and control
  • Controling in a PM environment
  • M & C - Intro
  • How to check if a project is on schedule
  • How to see if a project is on budget
  • M & C - Time and Cost
  • How to perform quality control
  • Keeping the risk log updated
  • Dealing with change proposals
  • M & C - Quality and Change management
The execution phase - Issue management
  • How to record and build project report updates
  • How to deal with any issues that occur during execution
  • Case Study 2
  • Execution - Status Reporting and Issue Management
The closure phase
  • Why do we close a project
  • What steps to take to close a project
  • Closure
MS Excel for Project Management
  • Introduction
  • Tracker 1: High-level
  • Tracker 2: Standard tasks
  • Tracker 3: Few steps & statuses
  • Project Management Logs
  • Actions, Issues, Dependencies Log
  • RAIDD Log
  • RAIDD Log - Structures
  • Risks Log