Course curriculum

  • 1

    1. Projects

    • 1.1 Projects

    • 1.2 Projects, Stakeholders, and Life Cycles

    • 1.3 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 2

    2. Project Finding

    • 2.1 Which Projects?

    • 2.2 Scanning

    • 2.3 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 3

    3. Process Groups

    • 3.1 Process Groups

    • 3.2 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 4

    4. Knowledge Areas

    • 4.1 Knowledge Areas

    • 4.2 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 5

    5. Project Life-Cycle Decisions

    • 5.1 Project Initiation

    • 5.2 Project Planning to Closing

    • 5.3 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 6

    6. Project Initiation

    • 6.1 Project Initiation

    • 6.2 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 7

    7. Project Charter

    • 7.1 Laying the Foundation for a Successful Project

    • 7.2 Realistic Schedules

    • 7.3 Budgets, Resources, and Communications

    • 7.4 Quality and Risk

    • 7.5 Project Charter Document

    • 7.6 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 8

    8. Work Breakdown Structure

    • 8.1 Decomposition and Work Breakdown Structure

    • 8.2 Defining a Task

    • 8.3 Displayingthe WBS

    • 8.4 Assuring a Useful WBS

    • 8.5 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 9

    9. Scheduling

    • 9.1 Tasks and Activities

    • 9.2 Basic Guidelines for Building a Project Managment Schedule

    • 9.3 Building a Network

    • 9.4 Another Example

    • 9.5 Slack and Critical Paths

    • 9.6 Another Example

    • 9.7 Gantt Charts

    • 9.8 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 10

    10. Monitoring

    • 10.1 Monitoring Project Progress

    • 10.2 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 11

    11. Risk

    • 11.1 Project Risk

    • 11.2 Risk Assessment

    • 11.3 Risk Mitigation

    • 11.4 Risk Monitoring and Control

    • 11.5 Risk Response

    • 11.6 Risk Management Plan

    • 11.7 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 12

    12. Controlling Project Progress

    • 12.1 Earned Value Method

    • 12.2 Actual Cost and Estimated Value

    • 12.3 Schedule Variance

    • 12.4 Terminating a Project

    • 12.5 Merck Pharmaceuticals

    • 12.6 Biogen Idecc

    • 12.7 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 13

    13. Project Governance: Organizational Structure and Support

    • 13.1 Project Orgnizational Structure

    • 13.2 Project Support

    • 13.3 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 14

    14. Project Approaches

    • 14.1 Predictive and Adaptive Approaches

    • 14.2 Traditional Approach

    • 14.3 Agile Approach

    • 14.4 Extreme Approach

    • 14.5 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 15

    15. Scrum

    • 15.1 How Scrum Works

    • 15.2 User Stories

    • 15.3 Daily Scrum Meeting

    • 15.4 Summary

    • Quiz

  • 16

    16. Change Management

    • 16.1 Change Management

    • 16.2 Summary

    • Quiz