Real-World Project Management (Level 1)

This course targets new project managers, sudden project managers, and anyone who has found themselves managing small projects, whether in academia, marketing, culinary, or other industries.

The lessons are explained on a whiteboard, and I also use simple English and provide examples to help you, the learner, understand more easily and progress faster through the course.

We go through ecosystems, tools, techniques, frameworks, and more. However, most importantly, this course is designed based on practical and real-world project management skills, rather than theories.

Practice tests and quizzes will help you test your knowledge. The attached templates will also make it easier for you to get started on your project more quickly.

By the end of the course, you will be able to manage projects with confidence, utilising a solid business case, effectively managing stakeholders, keeping the project under control, and closing the project professionally.

The goal is to build your reputation in your organization as the project management specialist and the person whom the team consults for proper project management.

So, if your goal is to understand project management from the ground up and have the skills needed to manage projects like a professional at the end of the course, hop on, and let’s enjoy this journey together.

What's inside

Learning objectives

Grasp the crucial concept of project initiation, as it forms the bedrock of successful project management.
Take charge of your projects by developing project documents like the business case, charter, and risk register, providing a clear roadmap for your success.

Plan meticulously by analyzing stakeholders, risks, requirements, costs, and schedules, as this forms the backbone of successful project execution.
Manage project performance and monitor it to reach project goals successfully.

Grasp the crucial concept of project initiation, as it forms the bedrock of successful project management.
Take charge of your projects by developing project documents like the business case, charter, and risk register, providing a clear roadmap for your success.
Plan meticulously by analyzing stakeholders, risks, requirements, costs, and schedules, as this forms the backbone of successful project execution.
Manage project performance and monitor it to reach project goals successfully.

Syllabus

Ever wondered where a project comes from? What is the process of choosing a project? And who decides that we need this project?

In this session, we will walk you through the entire process of project inception.

Great achievers have a solid understanding of what they are doing.

- How do you know if a command should be treated as a program, project, or activity?
- What is the definition of project management?
- What is the project management process?

Understanding who is responsible for what is key to successful governance and a productive environment. But most importantly, a Project Manager should know who the key personnel are they need to interact with, and their respective skills should be.

If, at the beginning of my project management career, someone had described the project management ecosystem as a 360-degree web of interconnected elements, they would have made my life so much easier.

This is where we go through what affects and is affected by a project.

A simple introduction to "manage the expectations" of the learners for what is coming up in this section.

"Managing expectations" is what you will do as a project manager when you deal with project stakeholders.

Any idea that represents an initiative needs to prove that it is beneficial in some way. We do so by developing a business case.

The business case is the first step in determining whether an organization should undertake a project. The organizations should then elaborate the outcome and carefully study the idea.

This introduction prepares learners for the content to come in this section.

Would you send emails to stakeholders you suppose should join the project? Or would you prepare them and onboard them?

There is more than one way to manage your project. How do you choose a predictive or adaptive approach?

A project includes a web of people, each with their own agenda. Some of these people can badly influence your project, while others help you succeed.

How do you know which is which before bumping into their reality?

Without governance, a project is simply chaos.

Do you know how to develop the project governance model?

Yep, you definitely have to do this.

You have to talk to people you don't like and understand what they expect from your project.

Without a proper project scope, the project team does not know what to deliver and what they are not required to deliver.

This is where you learn about resource, schedule, and cost estimation.

In this session, you learn how to plan the project schedule, how to create a visual of it, and basic schedule planning techniques.

In here, you learn the process of planning project costs and a few basic techniques that can help you.

In this session, we’ll learn how to build, guide, and grow a project team that delivers results, focusing on how you, as the project leader, can shape that success.

In this session, we’ll explore how to identify, assess, and respond to risks in a way that helps the project prepare for success.

EVM is an excellent way to understand how the project is performing. It was developed and tested years ago, and it proved its effectiveness in keeping the project under control.

If a project is a journey, then KPIs are the signposts that tell you whether you’re on track or heading off a cliff.

Risk is everywhere in life, and we, humans, manage risk every day. For some reason, humans often underestimate the importance of risk management in projects.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after years of managing projects, it’s this: change is not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. This is reality, and we have to accept it.

Behind every vision, a goal, or a plan is a group of people who make it all happen.

The team gives you motion.

And as the project leader, you are the driver.

In this session, we provide an overview of what successful project closure entails.

In this session, we walk through a step-by-step process for closing a project.

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