Project Management Certificate Course

•  Get started with Project Management
  

  • Identify the role of project manager
  • Define the 6 lifecycle stages of project management
  • Describe the 10 Knowledge Areas of Project Management
  • Differentiate between Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid Methodologies and tools used in each

  Playbook assignment:  Create a project brief

•  Manage key stakeholders
  

  • Demonstrate an understanding of common accountability models and their benefits
  • Create a toolkit for building and managing stakeholder relationships
  • Utilize industry best practices, tools, and communication techniques to manage stakeholder expectations and engagement

  Playbook assignment:  Develop a stakeholder engagement toolkit

•  Plan and scope your project
  

  • Define project objectives, scope, and stakeholders
  • Build an implementation approach, pulling from existing frameworks and methodologies
  • Create a Gantt chart to serve as a high-level project roadmap using various tools

  Playbook assignment:  Create a Project Roadmap & Kick Off Presentation

•  Create a digital project plan
  

  • Break down project tasks and estimate durations using Work Breakdown Structures 
  • Visualize tasks, their sequence, and interdependencies with a project schedule network diagram
  • Determine the project’s critical path using a Network Diagram

  Playbook assignment:  Develop a Project Plan in Google Sheets and Microsoft Project

•  Build a budget and manage your resources
  

  • Create a project budget considering various cost elements
  • Identify strategies and tools for effective cost management, cost estimation, and monitoring resource expenditures
  • Define techniques to negotiate with and manage vendors and other resources

  Playbook assignment:  Create a Project Budget, Cost, and Resource Management Plan

•  Manage risks to deliver outcomes
  

  • Identify potential risks and assess their impact and likelihood
  • Develop risk response strategies and contingency plans
  • Monitor and control project risks

  Playbook assignment:  Create a Risk Management Plan

• Monitor progress to ensure excellence
  

  • Identify techniques and tools for tracking project progress and performance
  • Manage project changes and control scope creep
  • Create project documentation and a reporting plan

  Playbook assignment:  Develop a Project Status Report and Quality Assurance Plan

• Lead the team through effective conflict management
  

  • Identify effective team management best practices to use in your role, including influencing, decision-making, and enabling compromise
  • Deliver bad news to stakeholders or renegotiate agreements based on changes  
  • Utilize leadership techniques to empower, motivate, give feedback, and guide project teams
  • Resolve conflicts and manage stakeholder expectations

  Playbook assignment:   Develop a Feedback Scenario Kit

• Evaluate and report on project success
  

  • Identify tools and best practices to evaluate projects and report on outcomes
  • Facilitate a retrospective, document lessons learned, and recommend how to incorporate lessons into future processes 
  • Define strategies for transitioning project deliverables to operational teams

  Playbook assignment:   Develop Project Retrospective and Executive Report

• Agile Project Management and Jira Certification
  

  • Identify the key principles of Agile project management for software, including how to get started with Agile, Kanban basics, and Scrum basics
  • Determine the use cases and considerations when working on technical projects
  • Get started in Jira to create an Agile project plan

  Playbook assignment:   Create an Agile Project Plan in Jira and earn a Jira software certification

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