Successful Project Management: Avoid These Common Mistakes
What you'll learn
- How to give yourself the edge as a project manager.
- Awareness of the top ten most prolific contributing factors to project failure.
- Strategies that can be used to avoid the most prolific project management mistakes.
- Philosophical truths about failure and how to learn from them.
- How to ensure your success as a project manager.
- Improving your approach to project management by creating a deep awareness of the most common project management pitfalls.
- Project management education worth your time and 1.75 PDU's
Requirements
- Internet access and a phone, tablet or PC
- Eagerness to learn from the mistakes of others
- Determination to work through the entire course
- Basic knowledge of project management (It will help, but it is not a must. The knowledge you learn here will help you immensely regardless of your current level).
Description
What do you think businesses are doing in answer to this globally changing environment? How are they keeping the competitive edge?
Well, an ever growing number of businesses are realizing the immense value that disciplined project management brings to the table and how the use of qualified project managers are consistently delivering better business results than ever before. Business sentiments are changing from the “A penny saved is a penny earned” outlook more towards the “penny wise pound foolish” attitude. This basically boils down to the fact that corporate management used to believe that the cost of project management was not worth the potential gains, whereas today corporate management has realized the massive strategic value project management brings with it.
This course will give you the opportunity to get ahead of the pack by arming you with the invaluable knowledge of what project management refers to as lessons learned. By completing this course you will gain the knowledge that comes with years of project management experience and with several costly mistakes. More than just learning about the most infamous project management mistakes, you will also be taught some useful strategies for voiding these project killers.
The curriculum of the course was compiled and is presented by Gerrit Fourie, a practicing project management professional (PMP), professional engineer (Pr.Eng) and director of an engineering and project management consultancy. The information is based on lessons learned both personally and by means of a collective pool of experience stretching over the 45 years of the firm. Knowledge of these project management pitfalls and the effective strategies that can be employed to avoid them will prove to be invaluable in your career as a project manager.
This course covers the ten most prolific contributing factors that result in failed projects in the industry as well as how you can go about circumventing them.
The ten factors covered in this course are as follows:
1. Requirements Management Shortcomings
2. Scope Creep
3. Insufficient Project Planning
4. Unrealistic Project Estimates
5. Lack of Proper Monitoring and Control
6. Stretching Project Resources
7. Poor Stakeholder Engagement
8. Neglecting Communication
9. Ineffective Risk Management Practices
10. Inexperienced or Uneducated Project Managers
The objective of the course is to arm you with the lessons learned knowledge of other practitioners and in the process provide you with the tools and knowledge they need to avoid the ten mistakes that most frequently contribute to the failure of projects.
The course design caters for those who already have the foundational knowledge of project management and are familiar with project management lingo. Beginners are however welcome to take it up as well as the course is structured to add value to all project management professionals, even up and comers.
Newcomers to project management will find this knowledge very beneficial, as it will enable them to start projects with sound knowledge of the biggest project management risks and how to avoid them.
Who this course is for:
- Project Management green horns looking for the next big step.
- Anyone who wants to improve on their project management efficiency.
- Any PMI certified Project Management Professional who wants to earn PDU's towards registration renewal.
- Intermediary project managers looking to build up toward the required 35 PDU's for PMP registration.
- Anyone who wants to turn project management into their next career move.
- Well versed project managers looking to improve their methodology and strategy.
- Project managers who want to increase their personal lessons learned repository.
Instructors
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- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 466 Reviews
- 42,386 Students
- 5 Courses
EduGantt is a collective effort from two Udemy Instructors with the aim of providing meaningful, accessible, affordable and worthwhile Project Management Education that delivers a solid technical foundation supported by a practical and hands on delivery. Not onoy will you learn what project management is about, but also how to effectively implement PM best practices.
There is a global trend of an increasing talent gap between employers' need for skilled project managers and the availability of professionals to fill the required roles. Moreover the exorbitant time and monetary cost of tertiary education makes it impossible to fill the gap.
Our mission is to aid in closing this gap by providing affordable education and credential maintenance options to our students thus enabling them to take full advantage of future project management opportunities.
Our vision is to establish EduGantt as a household name in the project management E-learning environment by providing engaging, worthwhile and top quality courses.
Our aim is to become the "go to guys" for all project management education needs whether for those aspiring to get a foothold in a new industry or those who wish to maintain their valuable credentials.
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 621 Reviews
- 46,902 Students
- 9 Courses
Gerrit Fourie is a Professionally certified structural and project engineer (Pr.Eng) with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and a Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering as well as a Bachelor of Engineering Honours specializing in Structural Engineering. He has a wealth of experience as a general manager, project manager, structural & civil engineer and mentor.
Gerrit is currently a co-owner and director of a civil engineering and project management consulting firm with more than 40 years industry exposure. He was previously employed with a consultancy focused mainly on the design and project management of bridge and port infrastructure. His first employment opportunity was as a graduate civil engineer and project manager with an engineering firm specializing in pavement engineering and project management, where he mostly worked on airport upgrade projects.
During his career as an engineer and project manager he has been involved in the successful completion of more than 30 projects ranging from R1.5mil to R450mil (AUD 150K to AUD 45mil) in value.
Gerrit is very passionate about the fields of engineering and project management and his main area of expertise is in construction project management. Although he is mostly involved in the management of construction projects, he has a solid foundation in project management fundamentals. That combined with his general management experience and involvement in other organizational level projects has enabled him to formulate a very effective project management methodology and also master the soft skills required for management. He also has a passion for teaching others and sharing the knowledge he has accumulated