This specialization is a precursor to the Applied Project Management Certificate. Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on series of courses gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget while giving the user the product they expect. You will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects. At the end of the series you will be able to identify and manage the product scope, build a work breakdown structure, create a project plan, create the project budget, define and allocate resources, manage the project development, identify and manage risks, and understand the project procurement process.
Project Management Principles and Practices
University of California, Irvine via Coursera Specialization
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Syllabus
Course 1: Initiating and Planning Projects
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. The courses in the Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Managing Project Risks and Changes
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. This course will help you manage project risk effectively by identifying, analyzing, and ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Project Management Project
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. This capstone project is designed to allow you to take the knowledge you have gained through ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. The courses in the Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Budgeting and Scheduling Projects
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Managing Project Risks and Changes
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. This course will help you manage project risk effectively by identifying, analyzing, and ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Project Management Project
- Offered by University of California, Irvine. This capstone project is designed to allow you to take the knowledge you have gained through ... Enroll for free.
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The courses in the Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization are a recommended precursor to UCI's Applied Project Management Certificate. Successful projects require careful upfront planning. In this course, you’ll learn the key roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team. You’ll also learn to answer some key questions upfront to help you meet project objectives: What will this project accomplish? Why is this project important? Who benefits from this project? How will we plan for successful outcomes? Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify the key characteristics of a project 2. Identify primary project constraints 3. Define the role and responsibilities of the project manager 4. Identify Project Organizational Structures 5. Understand the definition of a Project Stakeholder 6. Identify project stakeholders 7. Identify information needs of the project stakeholders 8. Define responsibility for managing stakeholder and controlling stakeholder engagement 9. Define the purpose of using a project charter 10. Summarize the key elements of a project plan 11. Identify common sources of conflict within a project environment 12. Describe the difference between authority and influence
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A good project schedule helps all team members’ work together to meet project objectives. A project budget with realistic cost constraints is also an essential bedrock of any project. In this course you’ll learn to plan and stick to time and cost constraints in order to ensure the success of your projects. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Identify the resource needs of the project 2. Decompose work packages into activities 3. Define what is needed to estimate activity durations 4. Define milestones and create a milestone schedule 5. Determine the critical path and calculate float 6. Describe the purpose of using leads and lags in a project schedule 7. Estimate the quantities and costs of resources required to perform project activities 8. Select one of three common cost estimating techniques to determine a project budget 9. Use a responsibility assignment matrix to assign responsibilities 10. Recognize the components of a project’s quality management plan
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This course will help you manage project risk effectively by identifying, analyzing, and communicating inevitable changes to project scope and objectives. You will understand and practice the elements needed to measure and report on project scope, schedule, and cost performance. You will be equipped with the tools to manage change in the least disruptive way possible for your team and other project stakeholders. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Define components of a communications management plan 2. Understand the importance of communications channels 3. Define the key elements needed to measure and report on project scope, schedule, and cost performance 4. Identify project risk events 5. Prioritize identified risks 6. Develop responses for a high priority risk 7. Identify and analyze changes to project scope 8. Describe causes and effects of project changes 9. Define the purpose of conducting a lessons learned session
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This capstone project is designed to allow you to take the knowledge you have gained through the Specialization and put that knowledge into practice. In the capstone, you will create several of the key planning deliverables that have been discussed in these courses and either work on a project you choose or use a suggested case study. You will begin the capstone project by writing part of the project charter. You will build on that information to define your project, and then ultimately create a schedule, budget and responses for the risks you identify. The goal is for you to use what you have learned in the previous courses and to perform your own research on how to best move forward with the capstone project. Your work will be peer reviewed by your classmates. In turn you will peer review the work of other classmates. Instructions on how to conduct peer reviews will be included in the course. Upon completing this series, you will be able to (1) write a narrative charter statement, (2) create a work breakdown structure, (3) sequence project activities,(4) build a project schedule, (5) create a project budget, (6) create a responsibility assignment matrix, (7) identify project risks and (8) define responses for those risks. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Write a narrative charter statement 2. Create a work breakdown structure 3. Sequence project activities 4. Build a project schedule 5. Create a project budget 6. Create a responsibility assignment matrix 7. Identify project risks and define responses for those risks
Taught by
Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP
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4.2 rating, based on 4 Class Central reviews
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Not a great course
Probably it's me, but i couldn't get along with the teaching of Margaret Meloni, some times trying to be fun, without any effective result.
Slides are mostly read, without great added value. Too many references to a book said to be not compulsory. There are too many poured notions without practical explanations or case studies.
The course gives you just a smattering of the subject, nothing that you can apply with confidence on the job.
The course is not compelling in any way.
The best part of the course is the "Case Study", short cartoons with a quiz, probably taken from another course from UCI, useful for outlying common misunderstandings in a real job context. -
Ohoude KhadrI absolutely loved this course! It was very well structured and had lots of material to go through, but mostly I enjoyed the capstone project, since it made you actually apply all what you've learned throughout the course.
Classcentral literally put some sense into my life during a rather uncertain and unstable phase in my life. It grants you a quite accessible tool to literally a massive amount of courses you can learn sitting on your sofa or at your kitchen table. It's just awesome! Thank you ;) -
Excellent Course - Definitely Recommed
Excellent Coverage of the role of project management application to various aspects of life & work activities. You would love the capstone as you see how PJM across board.
Ready to sit the CAPM exam or if you have the hours of project experience the PMP exam upon completion.
Warning: Requires hard work. -
Mohammed JafarI want learn project management, simply because am a potential civil engineer. And also have passion about the course, I develop more interest on it, hope you will be able to help me and give me that privilege to obtain such knowledge from this prestigious institution, thank you.
