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Online Courses: Project Management
Online Courses: Project Management
Online Courses
Project Mangement Foundations (3 hours, 31 minutes)
Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives. Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. In this course, she explains the fundamentals of project management, from establishing project goals and objectives and building a project plan to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, she provides tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance. The course also provides an overview of the changes introduced in the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Seventh Edition. This course provides exercises for most videos based on a healthcare/IT case study project.
Project Mangement Simplified (2 hours, 44 minutes)
Almost everything you do in the workplace is a project, from the smallest task to the largest endeavor. All of this work can benefit from some basic project management skills. Once mastered, you will be able to transfer this valuable skillset to any project, of any size, in any industry. In this course, management trainer Chris Croft outlines the twelve steps to managing projects without creating a lot of extra overhead, and shows how to use traditional project management tools—such as Gantt charts and network diagrams—to help you succeed. Learn how to plan a project, manage resources, monitor progress, and deliver your project on time and on budget.
Project Management Skills for Leaders (36 minutes)
It’s easy to think of project management as some specialized magic that only certified project managers possess, but the truth is, we all manage projects at one time or another. If you’ve ever coordinated an event or activity with a defined start and end date, then you, too, have managed a project, even if you didn’t realize it at the time. In this course, instructor Dana Brownlee shows how project management skills can help you to become a better, more effective leader and make a measurable impact in the new world of work. Learn specific tactics and techniques based on project management principles and strategies. Get the skills you need to develop a schedule with realistic estimates, analyze risk, design a kickoff meeting, delegate tasks, elicit effective status updates, and build a strong team culture. Dana helps you understand more about how to leverage your new skills in an increasingly challenging virtual or hybrid workplace.
Book Recommendations: Project Management
Book Recommendations: Project Management
Books
Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Summary: In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organization's projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in the project-driven world. In the HBR Project Management Handbook you'll find:
Everything you need to know about project management in practical, nontechnical language
A definitive taxonomy of project types, from product launches to digital transformations to megaprojects
A road map for becoming an effective project leader and executive sponsor
A new, simple, and universal project framework, the Project Canvas, that breaks down any project into essential building blocks that can be easily understood by all project stakeholders
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title
Authors: Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, James Wood
Summary: FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the people and project management process:
Initiate
Plan
Execute
Monitor/Control
Close
Unofficial project managers in any arena will benefit from the accessible, engaging real-life anecdotes, memorable Project Management Proverbs,” and quick reviews at the end of each chapter.
If you’re struggling to keep your projects organized, this book is for you. If you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you. Change the way you think about project management"project manager" may not be your official title or necessarily your dream job, but with the right strategies, you can excel.
Author: Chris Croft
Summary: Now more than ever, organizations are looking for flexible, profitable, and efficient ways to achieve their goals, and effective project management is the answer. Not only is it an in-demand skill in nearly every industry, but it’s also one of the most transferable skills you can acquire. In Project Management QuickStart Guide, author, speaker, trainer, and project management expert Chris Croft draws on his 30+ years of experience to deliver a comprehensive guide for would-be project managers, experienced project planners, and everyone in between. As one of the UK’s leading business, project management, and leadership trainers Chris knows how break down the sometimes-complex world of project management into actionable and easy-to-digest concepts. Insights from his dozens of courses that have reached over ten million students across the globe can be found within Project Management QuickStart Guide. It doesn’t matter if you are a reluctant project manager hesitant to step into the role, a manager with a new set of responsibilities, or a business owner looking to grow your business—you can learn and implement world-class project management skills to achieve your goals!
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