If you're just starting out as a project manager, need some re-grounding in the basics, or have any kind of project effort to drive, this is the series for you. Available individually or as a package, every webinar i
s recorded and available to you after the presentation.
We won't be scheduling live webinars again until next year, but you can get the whole series of recorded webinars plus access to the Practical Project Management: The Basics Q&A Session (November 16, 2016) any time!
The Lingo
What It Is: Basic concepts of project management (in plain English)
What You Get: By the end of the session, you'll
- Understand the terminology and translate it successfully
- Walk through the major steps of creating a project plan
- Understand the need for goals and the guidance they provide
- See the danger of unstated assumptions (and know how to draw them out)
- Know the roles and responsibilities of the players in a project
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The Parts
What It Is: The building blocks to create a project schedule
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Know how to break a project into tasks
- Understand when sub-tasks are a good thing
- Be able to identify resources for your tasks
- Understand how dependencies work
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The Core
What It Is: The meat of creating a project plan - scheduling, percent complete, new news
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Be able to put a schedule together from your tasks and dependencies
- Understand how and when percentage completion is useful
- Have a guideline for dealing with changes in the project
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Dimensions and Changes
What It Is: Major project dimensions (4 Dials), Change management, and contingency planning.
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Understand the four main parameters of any project and how to identify them
- Know the basics of managing the inevitable changes to a project
- Be able to identify the need for contingency planning and provide it
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Tools
What It Is:Explore some of the tools available for documenting and tracking a project plan (traditional methodologies - a list of Agile tools will be provided for those who are interested but they won't be explored in the webinar)
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Have a list of possible tools
- Understand what the tools look like and what they will do for you
- Have options for picking a tool that works for you
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Running the Gamut (End to End)
What It Is: Set up and run an entire project from beginning to end
What You Get: By the end of the session you'll
- Understand how all the project pieces fit together
- Have a working model for your own projects
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General Information
Cost: Each webinar is $20 (payable at registration)
Series The full series is available for $100. If signing up after the scheduled date of any of the webinars, you'll be provided with the recording of those missed. Until the next series is scheduled, you can get the whole recorded series plus access