Project Management Complete: Updated for the 8th Edition!

Identify and document all stakeholders—individuals, groups, or organizations who may be affected by or influence the project—and build a stakeholder register to align planning with their interests.

Explore the phase-gate life cycle as a governance framework, cover the project charter and stakeholder analysis, and show how gates and audits drive planning and stakeholder management.

Learn how to turn project scope into a schedule by listing activities, sequencing them, estimating durations, and assigning start and finish dates that align with the network diagram.

Learn to build a project schedule with a network diagram, map activities and durations, identify the critical path, and assign plan start and finish dates using calendars.

Learn to create a project schedule by analyzing a network diagram, identifying the 16 days critical path, and transposing data to a Gantt chart for clear, dated planning.

Finish exploring project risk treatments by detailing the four methods: avoid, transfer, mitigate, and accept. Explore mitigation to reduce likelihood or impact with practical examples.

Learn how a project plan builds from a scope statement to a schedule and cost budget, with risk, communications, and optional elements like WBS, quality, and stakeholder plans.

Explore how thorough planning shapes project success by detailing the project management plan, scope, time, cost, risk, and key artifacts like scope statements and communication plans.

Learn how project execution turns the plan into action after sign-off, by leading the team and managing resources, risk, scope, schedule, and budget through servant leadership.

Explore how intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose outperforms carrots and sticks, and learn to apply these insights to leadership, management, and creative problem solving.

Verify project scope by comparing built work to the scope baseline and scope statement, address deviations, manage scope creep, and adjust the baseline, schedule, and budget as needed.

Update the risk register during execution by reassessing scores after treatments, adding new risks, and adjusting the plan to manage residual risk and exposure.

Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project by keeping their mental model aligned with actual progress through clear communication on scope, schedule, cost, risks, and major milestones.

Explore the life cycle spectrum from predictive to adaptive, including waterfall, iterative, incremental, and agile approaches, with examples and terminology for handling scope, change, and delivery.

Explore how agile adapts to high change and frequent deliveries through sprint-based increments, kanban boards with backlogs, burndown charts and velocity, and hybrid spiral releases.