First-Time Project Manager

The mission is the company's most important declaration of value it provides to customers. Similarly, the project's mission is a concise and specific summary of the value your project will provide to stakeholders. You always start a project by creating a mission that answers four key questions that every stakeholder would like to ask you. It's good to have a mission that will help you communicate better with stakeholders and gain support for your project.

In this exercise, you will learn a simple and practical technique (formula) for creating a project mission.

You always do the project for stakeholders. In this module you will learn who the project's stakeholders are. Understanding what stakeholders will expect from you and how your project creates value for them is the first step to ensuring your success. Once you know the expectations and requirements of your stakeholders, all you have to do is to give it to them and your project will always be seen as a great success.

Meet "three the most important" project stakeholders: Sponsor, Business Owner and Project Manager. Learn their roles and responsibilities and how they cooperate for the project success.

Stakeholder analysis allows you to gather their requirements and expectations and predict what attitude they will have towards your project. Supportive or disturbing attitude. It is very important to know this before you start planning project activities. In this module you will learn the practical method of conducting stakeholder analysis - step by step.

The project has many goals. As many stakeholders. However, the most important stakeholder is the Project Sponsor. You formulate the goal of the project for him. You will learn how to do this to satisfy the sponsor's expectations, but also to take into account the needs and requirements of other stakeholders.

How to create your projects's goal statement? The goal statement that is ambitious and achievable and engages all key stakeholders.

If you do not set success criteria at the beginning of the project - your project will never be successful. In this module you will learn what are the project success criteria and how to create them.

Defining your project goal and success criteria is easy once you know how to do it. In this module you will learn practical ways of defining the project goal and the criteria of success and ... failure.

Product map, i.e. PBS is the first step in project planning. In this module you will learn what is important when creating a product map and what elements it consists of.

In this exercise, you'll learn simple and effective methods for creating of PBS and products descriptions.

Once you have the product map it's time for WBS, or the work breakdown structure. We will now take care of giving your project the form of an implementation plan. WBS is nothing more than a product map supplemented with tasks that are necessary to make these products.

In this module we will learn how to prepare a clear and effective project WBS so that it is ready for estimation and scheduling.

Project effort estimation and costing is one of the most responsible activities when planning project work. It depends on the quality of estimation whether we get enough time and money to successfully complete the project. In this module you will learn several methods for estimating a project.

Budgeting is not difficult. Learn 3 key components of a project budget. That is it.

The schedule is WBS on the timeline. This is the "crowning" of the project planning process, which consists of PBS, WBS, estimation and specific scheduling techniques. In this module you will learn practical tips on how to make a professional schedule.

In this exercise, you'll follow the process of creating a project schedule from start to finish. You will also learn basic schedule preparation techniques in the popular Gantt diagram form.

Risk is an indelible part of the project. How to deal with risk when you can't manage it? You'll learn from this module.

The risk management process uses several clever techniques and best practices. In this exercise, you'll learn how to practically do a risk register and use risk radar to develop effective risk prevention strategies in your project.

Project is a teamwork. And the team is communicating. To facilitate this communication, certain things must be determined from the very beginning. This is the purpose of the communication plan that you will learn in this module.

Learn details and secrets of the so called Project Repository in a passive communication strategy.

Learn how to compose an effective communication exchange in an active communication strategy.

The easiest way to create a communication plan is to prepare a presentation. In this exercise, you will learn what slides to prepare and what they should contain so that your project has a well-planned communication framework.

This is the last module of the course. Time to summarize what you have learned.