Put a project plan into action How to track and measure project progress Continuous improvement and quality management techniques Using and analyzing data to inform your decision-making Tools for effective team management and communication
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- Organize communication documentation - Creating an Effective Communication Plan - Tips for effective communication - Recognize and understand individual differences - Brainstorm and craft the appropriate message - Deliver your message - Obtain feedback and incorporate that feedback going forward - Starting a communication plan - What needs to be communicated - Who needs to communicate - when communication needs to happen - Why and how to communicate - Where the information communicated is stored - Developing a communication plan - Who needs to be involved in the project communication?
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- Manage risk - Understanding risk management - Importance - Phase - Identify - Analyze - Evaluate - Treat - Monitor and control - Identifying and assessing risks - Tools - Brainstorming - Cause-and-effect diagram (fishbone diagram) - Risk assessment - Probability and impact matrix - Risk types - Time - Budget - Scope - External - Single point of failure - Dependency types - Finish to Start (FS) - Finish to Finish (FF) - Start to Start (SS) - Start to Finish (SF) - Mitigating and communicating risks - Strategies - Avoid - Accept - Reduce or control - Transfer - Building a risk management plan - Communicating risk to stakeholders Understanding Risk Management The importance of risk management Risk: A potential event which can occur and can impact your project.
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Understanding Project Budgets The importance of budget setting Project budget: The estimated monetary resources needed to achieve the project’s goals and objectives. When reviewing a project budget, you need to consider all of the potential and projected costs needed to complete the project.
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- Build project plan - Project plan components - Tasks - Milestones - People - Documentation - Time - Scope and goals - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - Budget - Management plans - Using estimation to set timeline - Making realistic time estimates - Time estimation - Effort estimation - Overcoming the planning fallacy - Capacity planning and critical path - Capacity - Capacity planning - Create a critical plan - Capture all tasks - Set dependencies - Create a network diagram - Make time estimates - Find the critical path - Forward pass - Backward pass - Getting accurate time estimates from team - Ask the right questions - Negotiate effectively - Practicing empathy - Use tools to build a project plan - Gantt diagram - Best practices - Carefully review deliverables, milestones, and tasks - Give yourself time to plan - Recognizing and planning for the inevitable - Staying curious - Championing your plan - Kanban board Building a Project Plan Components of a project plan At the center of the project plan: project schedule
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- Begin planning phase - Benefit of project planning - Launching the planning phase - Schedule - Budget - Risk management plan - Project kick-off meeting - Attendees - Agenda - Best practice - Defining tasks and milestones - How to set milestones - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Understanding the Planning Phase Components Benefits of project planning Planning
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Kicking off the planning phase Setting and reaching milestones and identifying tasks Budgeting process Identifying and planning for risks Documentation
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- Utilizing resources and tools - Understanding project resource needs - Budget - People - Materials - Developing documentation for project kick-off - Project proposal - Project charter - Evaluating tools to meet project needs - Introducing new tools to a team - Discuss the tool early and often, if possible.
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- Working effectively with stakeholders - Project team roles and responsibilities - Choosing a project team - Required roles - Team size - Necessary skills - Availability - Motivation - Defining project roles - Project sponsors - Team members - Customers / Users - Stakeholders - Project manager - Evaluate stakeholders with stakeholder analysis - power grid visualization - Assign project team roles and responsibilities with RACI chart - Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed Stakeholders: People who are insterested in and affected by the project’s completion and success
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- Identify project goals - Goal - SMART goal - Specific - Measurable - Attainable - Relevant - Time-bounded - Objective + Key Results (OKR) - level - Company / Organization - Department / Team - Project - Deliverable - Define project scope - Gather information to define - Monitor and maintain project scope - Control scope creep - Manage changes to scope: Triple constraint model - Measuring a project's success - Launching vs.
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