Best Practices in Project Management
- 4 Courses | 3h 56s
- 8 Books | 41h
- 9 Audiobooks | 35h 19m 55s
Project management has become a fundamental business competency. Explore a range of methods and techniques for project management effectiveness. Project management techniques make managing projects easier and more effective. These techniques can be applied to any project, regardless of the field or industry. Learn how to use them to help save time and reduce costs.
COURSES INCLUDED
Ethics and Project Management
This course illustrates how the project management community and the Project Management Institute have established ethics standards to help members navigate ethical issues and establish project management as a profession.
10 videos |
43m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Ethical Standards and PMI(r) Core Values
This course addresses the ethical challenges of an increasingly global network, highlighting that sensitivity in groups, their social customs, and their means of doing business are keys to success.
9 videos |
45m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Strategically Focused Project Management
Managing projects means having a project strategy. Strategic projects remain in line with company goals and deliver on expected value. This course covers best practices for strategic project management. You'll learn about strategy and the creation of a project charter through to closing the project. We'll also discuss how to manage stakeholder relationships, with the goal of keeping stakeholders' expectations in line with strategic goals.
10 videos |
47m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Capturing, Analyzing, and Using Project Lessons Learned
To help an organization grow and experience superior performance, it's necessary for project managers to learn from past experiences. Lessons learned can then be incorporated when managing projects in the future, resulting in fewer mistakes, lower costs, more accurate estimates, and many other project efficiencies. This course covers collecting, analyzing, managing and passing on lessons learned.
10 videos |
45m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
Successful Project Management, 5th EditionSuccessful Project Management provides a detailed and realistic series of steps to effectively manage your project. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Trevor L. Young
Book
The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project LeaderHelping project managers transform into proactive, accountable project leaders, this book explains what good project leadership looks like and explains how to make the transition using concrete tools and strategies.
5h 7m
By Susanne Madsen
Book
Successful Project Management, Fourth Edition: How to Complete Projects on Time, on Budget, and on TargetAligned with the Fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(r) Guide), this guide covers the fundamentals, focusing on practical tools and techniques students can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target.
3h 38m
By Michael S. Dobson
Book
Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a CommentaryDrawing on twelve cases ranging from the launch of the Freeview television system in the United Kingdom to the sifting and removal of the New York World Trade Center pile of debris following the 9/11 terrorist attack, this book explores what is different managerially if work is unexpected, its implementation is urgent and an immediate start it is required.
2h 28m
By Keith White-Hunt, Stephen Wearne
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The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Fourth EditionCompiling essays and advice from the field's top professionals, as well as case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, this guide is an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master.
11h 55m
By Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Paul C. Dinsmore
Book
Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid, Eighth EditionThe popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated
11h 40m
By Robert K. Wysocki
Book
Project Management Step-by-StepThis guide exemplifies the fundamentals of applying a project management illustration and how it can facilitate an organization in meeting its goals.
2h 53m
By Larry Richman
Book
Project Management for Small Projects, Third EditionProviding tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes, this book shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine.
3h 9m
By Sandra F. Rowe
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
A Manager's Guide to Project Management: Learn How to Apply Best PracticesA Manager's Guide to Project Management provides you with greater insight into implementing effective project management strategies in your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m 38s
By Michael B. Bender
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and StakeholdersThe Influential Project Manager discusses various techniques and approaches that will help you develop and improve your skills to become a more effective project manager. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 56s
By Alfonso Bucero
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Total Quality Management for Project ManagementTotal Quality Management for Project Management lays out the approaches you can take to apply the tools of total quality management to your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 19s
By Jon M. Quigley, Kim H. Pries
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Successful Project Management, 5th EditionSuccessful Project Management provides a detailed and realistic series of steps to effectively manage your project. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 25s
By Trevor L. Young
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Successful Project Sponsorship: A Time-Saver for the Busy ExecutiveSuccessful Project Sponsorship outlines four key principles that guide the efficiency and effectiveness of managing and achieving project goals. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
19m 51s
By Michiel van der Molen
Audiobook
Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of ConstraintsThis audio edition presents powerful, yet simple techniques to solve project management's toughest problems.
7h 27m 12s
By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Audiobook
The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second EditionThis audio edition will help project managers lead with confidence in temporary, ambiguous team structures that execute risk-laden work in an increasingly agile project environment.
10h 20m 4s
By Jack Ferraro
Audiobook
Succeeding with Senior Management: Getting the Right Support at the Right Time for Your ProjectThis audio edition explains how to engage the upper ranks by thinking like an executive, establishing relationships early on, and keeping them informed about progress. Read by the author.
5h 44m 22s
By G. Michael Campbell
Audiobook
The Project Manager's MBA: How to Translate Project Decisions into Business SuccessIn this audio edition, authors Dennis Cohen and Robert Graham teach project managers how to make day-to-day decisions from an upper-management perspective.
10h 15m 8s
By Dennis Cohen, Robert Graham
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