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Project Management Training Course
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Project management training that's Easy, Convenient and Affordable! High-quality, online project management, self-paced training designed to help you achieve your goals. Affordable annual subscription plans give you unlimited access to an entire suite of training topics at prices that you just won't find anywhere else.

This course is for anyone wanting to learn about project management. It can also be helpful in preparing for the Project Management Institute certification.

• The Overview provides an overview on the nature.
• Understanding the Project Manager's Role explains the role and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective.
• Defining the Problem describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement. In addition, it explains the detrimental impact that bypassing this step has. It also distinguishes between different types of problems and possible methods for identifying them. Finally, it describes the Charter and how to create it.
• Determining the Strategy defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning.
• Developing the Work Breakdown Structure describes how to create and organize tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram.
• Estimating and Scheduling Resources explains estimating and scheduling concepts, provides guidelines for estimating and scheduling, and describes the advantage tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Understanding Scheduling Computations explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart.
• Tracking Activities describes the control phase of and provides guidelines on how to effectively control.
• Closing Out explains the close-out phase and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase.
• Formalizing Standards provides an overview on the nature.
• Developing Teams describes team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a team.
• Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness gives tips on how to be a more effective manager.

During the courses, you will learn how to:

• Definition
• The system
• The life cycle
• Constraints
• The costs of quality
• Managing small projects
• Gaining organizational support
• Traits
• Responsibilities and duties
• The need for good people skills
• The importance of leadership
• Effective meeting guidelines
• Problems in assuming multiple roles
• The Importance of the Definition Phase
• Stakeholders
• Aspects of the Definition Phase
• Solving Closed-Ended Problems
• Defining Open-Ended Problems
• The Charter
• Definition of Strategy
• Steps to Determine Strategy
• Develop the Strategies List
• Rank the Strategies List
• Identify Risk
• Contingency Planning
• People Problems
• WBS basics
• Identifying tasks
• WBS procedures
• WBS guidelines
• Network diagram basics
• Network diagram procedures
• Basics of Scheduling
• The Definition of Estimating
• Assumptions When Estimating
• Estimating Methods
• Resource Estimates
• Basics of Budgeting
• Approval of Work Plan
• Software
• Basics of scheduling computations
• Forward pass computations
• Backward pass computations
• Activity maximum float
• Network calculations
• Constrained end date scheduling
• Reducing activity durations
• Use of the bar chart
• Basics of Control
• Guidelines for Controlling
• Approaches to Monitoring
• Graph Analysis
• Spreadsheet Analysis
• Status Reporting
• Review Meetings
• Accommodating Changes Deviations
• How Projects End
• Closing
• Verification and Approval of Results
• Reallocation of Resources
• Delivery of Results
• Developing a methodology
• Roles and responsibilities
• Deliverables and approvals
• Process review
• ISO requirements
• Definition of Team
• How Teams Are Different
• Team Building
• Communication
• Issues in Team Building
• Team Member Roles and Responsibilities
• Teams and Decision Making
• An Individual's Needs
• Differences in Thinking Styles
• The values approach
• Life planning
• Time management guidelines
• Speaking and writing skills
• Certification

Our courses have special design features listed below:

• Certificates of Completion
• Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
• Exercises -- try it out
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Microsoft Approved Courseware Logo - to prepare you for a Microsoft certification
• Course Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
• Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
• Course Glossary
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and course grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which course topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.