Project Management for Mere Mortals LiveLessons (Video Training): The Tools, Techniques, Teaming, and Politics of Project Management

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Sample: Introduction
Sample: Lesson 10b, Creating the Schedule
 

For anyone who wants to master project management–from novices to experienced PMs who want to successfully run more complex projects.

 

Looking for a better way to master today’s rapidly changing programming technologies? Want expert help, but don’t have the time or energy to read a book? Can’t find classroom training worth the money? Discover LiveLessons: self-paced, personal video instruction from the world’s leading technology experts.

• LiveLessons are three-to-four hour video courses, on DVD with a book supplement, that are organized into bite-sized, self-contained lessons–you’ll learn key skills in as little as fifteen minutes!
• Each lesson begins with well-defined learning objectives and ends with comprehensive summaries, which help you track your progress.
• Follow along as your instructor shows how to get results in today’s top development environments.

In this LiveLesson–which contains 7+ hours of hands-on video training–top project management trainer Claudia Baca makes real-world project management simpler and easier than ever before.

 

Project Management for Mere Mortals^® is a comprehensive video training course that teaches key techniques, using a live case study that covers all five process groups of project management: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closing.

 

Learn at your own pace and get practical, common-sense help with scoping, scheduling, budgeting, organizing work, building teams, setting quality goals, identifying risks, coping with politics, controlling changes, baselining, ending projects, and much more!

Table of Contents

Preface v

About the Author ix

Session 1: Setting the Project Management Context 1

Session 2: You’ve Been Assigned a Project! 5

Session 3: How Big Is This Project? 9

Session 4: Creating Product Requirements 13

Session 5: Laying Out the Work 17

Session 6: The Art of Estimating 23

Session 7: Quality—How Good Does It Have to Be? 37

Session 8: Communication—What Do You Think about My Project? 45

Session 9: Risk—What Should You Worry About? 63

Session 10: Creating the Schedule 71

Session 11: Budgeting—How Much? 81

Session 12: The Rhythm of Project Execution 87

Session 13: Keeping the Project on Track 89

Session 14: Controlling Changes 91

Session 15: Success!—Closing the Project 97

Session 16: Building Effective Teams 101

Session 17: Working Project Politics 103