Project Management is a fundamental theme to understand and work in any business environments. One of the main skills that Project Managers need to have deals with the ability to manage the project during its entire life-cycle and to plan the work needed to achieve the final result. During the course, the various phases of a typical project are presented. Then, various practical tools are presented aiming to help professionals in actually manage their projects through useful instruments. Among the others, the Scope Statement helps managers in identifying and clearly define what is and what is not part of the project, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) helps in identifying the activities, the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) in managing the team, the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) to match activities and people, while the Gantt Chart provides a time-based view on the project.
Project Management: Life cycle and project planning
This course is part of Project Management: Tools, Approaches, Behavioural Skills Specialization
Instructors: Daniel Trabucchi
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Identify the main phases of a project in a business context.
Pick the right tools to plan a project when working on it.
Make a plan of a project when working on it.
Analyze the results of a planning process when working on a project.
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Reviewed on May 6, 2025
Excelente Curso deja Gran aprendizaje y recursos para precticar
Reviewed on Mar 15, 2022
My knowledge on project management was expanded with this course. I really enjoyed, highly recommended :)
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2023
It was great and immense amount of knowledge. Great insights for Project Management and Life cycle of a project.
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