Project management is a start-to-finish approach to getting things done and making projects more successful. It’s a profession, but it’s also a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and manage project work more effectively. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.

Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. In this course, she explains the fundamentals of project management, from defining the problem, establishing project goals and objectives, and building a project plan to managing team resources, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, she provides tips for reporting on project performance, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance.

Topics include:

• Defining the components of a project
• What it takes to be a project manager
• Using project management software like Microsoft Project
• Managing project scope, budget, and schedule
• Managing project resources, including people
• Managing project risk
• Initiating a project
• Identifying and managing stakeholders
• Identifying requirements and deliverables
• Developing a project plan
• Building a project schedule
• Assigning resources to tasks
• Understanding the critical path
• Running the project
• Managing teams
• Monitoring performance
• Closing a project

• Introduction 2m 38s
• 1. Getting to Know Project Management 23m 43s
• 2. Exploring Project Management Knowledge Areas 18m 48s
• 3. First Things First 29m 59s
• 4. Developing a Project Plan 44m 37s
• 5. Building a Project Schedule 19m 39s
• 6. While You Run the Project 14m 15s
• 7. Working with Teams 11m 34s
• 8. Monitoring and Controlling Progress and Performance 22m 56s
• 9. Closing a Project 9m 41s
• Conclusion 2m 23s

Bonnie Biafore is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and engineer with more than twenty-five years of experience managing software development and implementation projects in the telecommunication, utility, and IT industries. She’s also authored more than twenty-five award-winning books, including Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual, Successful Project Management (award winner at the 2012 STC International Competition), QuickBooks 2015: The Missing Manual (Intuit’s official guide to QuickBooks), and Your Project Management Coach. Her novel, Fresh Squeezed, is available on Amazon and other book emporia. She also provides project management and technical documentation services. When unshackled from her computer, she hikes in the mountains with her two Bernese Mountain Dogs, takes aerial dance lessons, and cooks gourmet food. Find her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniebiafore.