Project Management in the Real-World
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Course sections

Section 1
Section 1 : Welcome & Agenda
1
Welcome and Agenda
1:26
Section 2
Section 2: Introduction - Alan Levy
1
Introducing Alan Levy
2:06
Section 3
Section 3: Start from the Beginning - Why Should I Care?
1
Start From the Beginning - Why Should I Care?
3:07
2
Lesson 1: Definitions - What is a Project?
1:26
3
Lesson 2: Project vs Program vs Portfolio
2:27
4
Lesson 3: Project Phases
5:01
Section 4
Section 4: Project Basics - Scope
1
Project Basics - Understanding Project Scope
9:08
2
Lesson 1: Personal Story - Surveying
2:21
3
Lesson 2: Personal Story – Scope Development without Support
4:14
4
Lesson 3: Personal Story – Scope Development to Win an Actual Project
8:01
5
Lesson 4: Everything is a Project, Applying What We Learned to a Home Project
3:20
Section 5
Section 5: Project Basics - Financials
1
Project Basics - Understanding Project Financials
11:13
2
Lesson 1: Personal Story - The Reality of the S-Curve
3:14
Section 6
Section 6: Project Basics - Schedule
1
Project Basics - Understanding Project Schedules
4:54
2
Lesson 1: Personal Story – Scheduling Concepts Outside Work
3:32
3
Lesson 2: Applying Scheduling Concepts as a Student
1:43
Section 7
Section 7: Project Basics - Risk Management
1
Project Basics - Understanding Project Risk Management
5:20
2
Lesson 1: Personal Story - Project vs Program Risk
1:52
Section 8
Section 8: Project Basics - Communications
1
Project Basics - Understanding Project Communications
10:34
2
Lesson 1: Stakeholders
3:39
3
Lesson 2: The Reality of Communications for PMs
2:49
Section 9
Section 9: Project Basics - Change Control and Change Management
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Project Basics - Understanding Change Control and Change Management
12:21
2
Lesson 1 Part 1: Personal Story - Change Control on a Large Project (Part 1)
9:06
3
Lesson 1 Part 2: Personal Story - Change Control on a Large Project
8:09
Section 10
Section 10: Recap and Closing
1
Recap - Does this make more sense now?
0:45

Section 1 : Welcome & Agenda

Welcome and Agenda

AGENDA

  • Understand why Project Management is important, and why nearly everything in the real-world is a project.
  • Define a project, program, and portfolio.
  • Gain some professional context into the different types of projects.
  • Define project phases and discuss how they apply and why they are important.
  • Discuss the basics of scope development
  • Apply scope development to complex, multi-discipline, real-world projects.
  • Learn the basics of cost and schedule development.
  • Learn about risk and change management.
  • Understand what a stakeholder is and is not.
  • Learn about stakeholder management and why it’s critically important.