Project management
9 lessons following a real project from idea to close: the charter and stakeholders, scope and the WBS, the schedule and critical path, cost and earned value, risk, agile and Scrum, the team and quality.
Lessons
What is a project, and what does a project manager do?
Projects versus operations, the triple constraint, the project life cycle and approaches.
Getting started: the charter and stakeholders
The business case, the project charter, and stakeholder analysis with the power–interest grid.
Scope and the work breakdown structure (WBS)
Breaking the project into work packages, and stopping scope creep with change control.
The schedule and the critical path
Activities and dependencies, the critical path method, float, and an interactive Gantt chart.
Estimating, cost and earned value
Estimating methods and PERT, budgets and reserves, and measuring performance with earned value (EVM).
Managing project risk
Identifying and rating risks, responses to threats and opportunities, and the risk register.
Agile, Scrum and Kanban
Agile values, Scrum roles and events, user stories, points and velocity, and the Kanban board.
Team, communication and quality
The RACI matrix, the communication plan, team development stages, and quality assurance versus control.
Monitoring, closing and your project management path
RAG status reports, lessons learned, handover, and certifications and careers.