Overview
In this course, you will learn a fast, effective, and simple technique for
launching and managing your projects. You'll learn this technique through a very
effective and memorable teaching method incorporating accelerated learning
principles and you'll learn it in one day. By taking this course you will be
able to:
- Reduce conflict by clearly communicating with people on the project team and your customers about the project.
- Accurately define the problems your project will help your customers solve.
- Specify the requirements of your project in terms of how your customers will use the project
deliverables.
- Clearly define the end points of your project to rein in costs.
- Create a high performing project team that is aligned on their roles and responsibilities
- Determine exactly what you need to have to get started with your project and what
represents completion (and success.)
- Create measurements to ensure your project meets customer's acceptance criteria.
- Define reviews and approvals at each stage of your project.
- Collect relevant information in periodic reports to coordinate project execution.
- Assess, quantify, and prevent risks that could derail your project.
- Define the priorities of the project in terms of cost, schedule and quality.
- Identify your constraints and conflicts on doing this project.
- Determine the staff and resources to complete the project.
- Align your budget with the overall goals and objectives of your application.
- Create dependency schedules of your interim deliverables with an easy to visualize graphical mapping technique.
- Use a quick three point estimating technique to calculate budgets associated with work and
resources needed to get the job done.
- Adjust your project plan based on issues that arise during the execution of your project.
- Record your lessons learned in a way that you can use them to improve the way you manage your
next project.
- Identify how you’re going to use what you’ve learned doing your projects to continue to
build your career.
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