The eie course in Becoming a Project Manager

Program Overview

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The eie Course in Becoming a Project Manager

Overall Programme Description

Project managers are catalysts for change. Learn how to manage projects from beginning to end using proven project management techniques. After completing this learning path, you'll have the skills and knowledge to manage simple projects as well as complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.

Skills

• Microsoft Project
• Stakeholder Management
• Requirements Management
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• +1 more

Mode of Delivery

Online through Self-Study.

Duration

12 hours

Assessment

Quizzes at the end of each Module

Certification

Digital Certificates at the end of Each module, and an eie Certificate of Completion (this is NOT an Academic Qualification or Academic Award. For an Academic Award, please visit our MQF Levels section).

Modules

1. Project Management Foundations

Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives. Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. In this course, she explains the fundamentals of project management, from establishing project goals and objectives and building a project plan to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, she provides tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance. This course provides exercises for most videos based on a healthcare/IT case study project.

2. Project Management Foundations: Ethics

Your overall success as a project manager depends upon your ability to identify and manage ethical issues. Ethical behavior is also a requirement for good standing with the Project Management Institute (PMI). To boost your reputation and increase project participation and success, you need to learn how to conduct your project in an ethical way and solve any complications that may arise—due to conflicts of interest, business pressure, or even fear of failure. Join PMP Bob McGannon in this course, as he examines the core values of ethical projects and the different ethical standards that can be applied to project management. Bob also shows how to develop and apply a framework for ethical decision-making that balances your organization’s unique cultural expectations with your own personal standards.

3. Project Management Foundations: Requirements

Project requirements are how project managers determine what the business needs and align the project’s goals. Requirements also form the basis for defining a project’s scope, assigning resources, and performing acceptance testing. In this course, Daniel Stanton, PMP, introduces an easy, 10-step process to manage the requirements for any project. Find out how to determine applicable standards, identify your stakeholders, gather and analyze requirements, prioritize them, and document your findings. Daniel also explains how to solicit approval for project requirements and manage ongoing change requests.

4. Project Management Foundations: Schedules

Discover how to build project schedules that help you accomplish your project goals on time and within budget—while being flexible enough to accommodate change. In this course, trainer and PMP Bonnie Biafore teaches you how to proactively manage project schedules. Learn how to develop a plan for schedule management; identify activities and milestones; estimate costs; allocate and negotiate for resources; and manage the schedule over time. Bonnie introduces techniques to uncover and resolve schedule conflicts, shorten timeframes, and reduce costs. By the end of the course, you'll have learned the skills you need to meet stakeholder expectations and adapt to changes as they arise over the life of the project. Note: This course aligns with best practices from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK Guide) - Sixth Edition, published by the Project Management Institute.

5. Project Management Foundations: Budgets

Budget is key to controlling a project's outcome—and one of the 10 foundational knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. In this course, designed for project management professionals and other leads who need to get a handle on their costs, author and PMP Bob McGannon shows you how to manage your project's budget. Explore fundamentals such as the work breakdown structure, costing standards, and capital vs. operating costs. Then learn how to build, manage, and monitor a project budget. Plus, get practical tips on recovering from overruns and dealing with scope changes. Note: This course follows the latest guidance from Project Management Institute, Inc., as outlined the PMBOK 6 Guide.

6. Project Management Foundations: Teams

Explore leading techniques for understanding the personality traits of team members, and for managing the development of teams. Instructor Daniel Stanton discusses the value of learning about team members and explains a number of assessments that can assist with identifying personality types, emotional intelligence, strengths, and work styles. He also shares ways project managers can use these tools to relate to colleagues and create an environment in which everyone is able to succeed.

7. Project Management Foundations: Communication

As a project manager, you'll spend most of your time communicating. To keep a fast-moving project on track, you need to know how to juggle the emails, phone calls, voice mail, and documentation. In this course, instructor Doug Rose shares the secrets of managing project communication, detailing how to craft a solid communication strategy that helps your team maximize buy-in and prioritize stakeholder input. Discover how to use a communication plan to develop two-way communication goals, run efficient meetings, and create concise reports.

8. Project Management Foundations: Risk

If not managed properly, risk reduces your ability to achieve your project's goals. It may even derail your project altogether. In this course, author and PMP Bob McGannon shows you how to anticipate, assess, and manage risk—one of the 10 foundational knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Discover how to create a risk management plan, identify and categorize risks, perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, build a response plan, and monitor and control risks as they occur, all while keeping your project on budget and on track. Note: This course follows the latest guidance from Project Management Institute, Inc., as outlined the PMBOK 6 Guide.

9. Microsoft Project Quick Tips

Take a quick minute or two and learn valuable, time-saving Microsoft Project tips from a project management pro, Bonnie Biafore, PMP and MCTS. She offers a series of bite-size insider solutions for many of the most common issues that frustrate Project users, covering data entry, scheduling, formatting, staying organized, and more.

Program Outline

Outline:

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Program Content:

Project management techniques and skills

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Structure:

Self-study online mode

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Duration:

12 hours

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Modules:

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Project Management Foundations:

Fundamentals of project management, establishing project goals and objectives, building a project plan, managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project.

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Project Management Foundations: Ethics:

Core values of ethical projects, ethical standards in project management, developing and applying a framework for ethical decision-making.

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Project Management Foundations: Requirements:

Managing project requirements, determining applicable standards, identifying stakeholders, gathering and analyzing requirements, prioritizing requirements, documenting findings, soliciting approval for project requirements, managing change requests.

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Project Management Foundations: Schedules:

Building project schedules, developing a plan for schedule management, identifying activities and milestones, estimating costs, allocating and negotiating for resources, managing the schedule over time, uncovering and resolving schedule conflicts, shortening timeframes, reducing costs.

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Project Management Foundations: Budgets:

Introduction to budgets in project management, work breakdown structure, costing standards, capital vs. operating costs, building, managing, and monitoring a project budget, recovering from overruns, dealing with scope changes.

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Project Management Foundations: Teams:

Understanding personality traits of team members, managing team development, using assessments to identify personality types, emotional intelligence, strengths, and work styles.

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Project Management Foundations: Communication:

Communication strategies, writing a solid communication strategy, developing two-way communication goals, running efficient meetings, creating concise reports.

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Project Management Foundations: Risk:

Anticipating, assessing, and managing risk, creating a risk management plan, identifying and categorizing risks, performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, building a response plan, monitoring and controlling risks.