Successful Project Management

Learn to recognize the components of an organization that would benefit most from waterfall, agile or hybrid methodologies.

• Recognize the benefits of identifying a project management methodology
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of various project management methodologies
• Discuss how to communicate a chosen methodology with a project team

Discover techniques to construct a solid business case and project charter for obtaining project buy-in.

• State a business case based on a need, requirement or request
• Reproduce the key elements of a project charter
• Recognize the 3 categories of stakeholder authority

Gather tools for developing risk contingencies, critical paths and scheduling resources.

• Identify contingencies to mitigate, retain and transfer risk
• Discuss the process of identifying and documenting project relationships among project tasks
• Explain the procedure of analyzing tasks, requirements and constraints to develop a project schedule

Participate in group activities to practice group speak, active listening and team validation.

• Describe how each of the 3 change request options would impact a project
• Discuss the performance advantages of written and verbal reporting
• Relate project documents to communicating status and progress measurement

Use the techniques and reporting tools in this module to effectively track and adjust schedules as necessary.

• Discuss the differences between the waterfall and agile methodologies during the testing and implementation phase
• Use the affinity estimating technique to relate how items are cataloged in agile sprint cycles
• Identify the purpose of using burn up and burn down charts in demonstrating project progress

Learn techniques for recognizing when to accept outcomes and close a project.

• Express the qualities of project completion criteria
• Discuss varying project management methodology (PMM) details to include in the lessons learned registry
• Recognize the benefits of reviewing the original business case to assess project success