Introduction
Topics
- Simple process parts
- Basics
- Problem statement
- Mission statement
- Strategy
- Scope
- Objectives
- Deliverables
- Schedules
- Planning
- Control
- Why - what can go wrong?
- Monitoring
- General
- What scope?
- Time
- Cost
- Cost - common terms
- Cost overspend
- Cost cash flow
- Progress reporting general
- Progress reporting Project Board
- Progress reporting what data?
- Taking action what does this entail?
- Assessing the situation
- Resolving issues and problems
- Contingency
- Areas of review
- Controlling change part 1
- Controlling change part 2
- Document control procedures
- Project completion
- Quality management plan overview
- Plan - areas to define
- Quality
- Risk management
- Project review
- Project manager
- Construction
- Reports
- Manual methods
- Time and duration
- Precedence grid
- Task flow charts
- Task flow charts Activity-on-Node networks bubble diagrams
- Task flow charts Activity-on-Node networks bubble diagrams
- Task flow charts Activity-on-Arrow networks
- Task flow charts Activity-on-Arrow networks arrow diagrams
- Task flow charts Activity-on-Arrow networks arrow diagrams float v slack
- Contingency 1 General
- Contingency 2 The weather
- Resource
- Project management systems
- Six sigma part 1
- Six_sigma part 2
- Six_sigma part 3
- SCRUM part 1
- SCRUM part 2
- SCRUM part 3
- Earned value management part 1
- Earned value management part 2
- Earned value management part 3
- Earned value management part 4
- Earned value management part 5
- Earned value management part 6
- Sensitivity analysis
- PMBOK part 1
- The Project Management Knowledge Areas part 2
- The Project Management Knowledge Areas part 3
- The Project Management Knowledge Areas part 4
- The Project Management Knowledge Areas part 5
Detailed planning
- Overview
- Initial estimation simple cost plan
- Initial estimation high level plan first review
- Initial estimation high level plan second review
- Initial estimation budget cost plan
- Estimating overview
- Estimating why are estimates too long
- Estimating why are estimates too short
- Estimating data usage
- Dependencies 4 basic types
- Dependencies (schedule)
- PERT and slack (float)
- PERT part 1
- PERT part 2
- PERT part 3 Cumulative Probability graph
- Elapsed time example for a task
- Roles and responsibilities
- Responsibilities and resources
- The Gantt chart
- Constraints resource
- Critical path part 1
- Critical path part 2 choosing one
- Criticalpath part 3 eliminating one
- Critical path part 4 reducing durations
Welcome to Project Management
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This section covers many aspects of project management in a generic non industry specific manner.
It includes many areas available in the full product package.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche(1844 - 1900)
other areas of interest in the series
- PRINCE2 2009PRINCE2 2009 updates PRINCE2 2005 and covers the principles, the themes -
business case, organisation, quality, plans, risk, change and progress.
The processes – starting up a project, directing a project, initiating a project, controlling a stage,
managing product delivery, managing a stage boundary, closing a project and tailoring PRINCE2 2009 and more... - PRINCE2 2005PRINCE2 2005 covers definition, terminology, the processes - Starting up a Project (SU), Initiating a Project (IP),
Directing a Project (DP), Controlling a Stage (CS), Managing Product Delivery (MP), Managing Stage Boundaries (SB),
Closing a Project (CP) and Planning (PL). The components – Business case, Management of risk,
Quality in a project environment, Configuration management Change control, Organisation, Plans and Controls.
Also, Product-based planning, change control technique and quality review technique and more... - Project managementProject management covers planning, milestones, objectives, scope, control, estimating, assumptions and constraints, problem statements, mission statements, identifying strategy, deliverables, work breakdown structure (wbs), plan types, dependencies, PERT, critical path management (cpm), cost terminology, the project manager, report writing, manual methods, resource levelling, popular project management systems, quality function deployment and more...
- Risk managementRisk management covers proactive and reactive planning, triggers, monitoring and control, risk combination,
what is risk, core process steps, project life cycle, terminology, cumulative probability graph, modifying plans,
plan types, identifying risk issues, assessing risk, cost model, Monte Carlo distribution, probability density function (PDF), uncertain events, correlated events, budget versus contingency, simple networks, Markov chain and more... - Time managementTime management covers goals, objectives, time logs, filing, delegation, planning, key time destroyers,
prioritising, urgent versus important, typical process, strategies, positive thinking,
mind maps, monochronic and polychronic time, culture,
convergent and divergent thinking, assertiveness, stress and more... - LeadershipLeadership covers definition, the vision, influencing, change, confidence, motivation,
strategy, personality indicators, trust and integrity, empowerment, prioritising, proactivity,
SWOT analysis, strategy, insight, personal direction, the three C’s, being positive, self discipline,
leadership training, meetings and agendas, styles and more... - MotivationMotivation covers performance management, empowerment, relations and needs, integrity and trust,
consequences, positive and negative reinforcement, measurement, feedback, goals, rewards,
appraisals, creativity and labelling, communication, coaching and mentoring, teamwork and self motivation,
insight, intuition, foresight, inspiration and influence and more...
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