Traditional Project Management for Beginners

About this course

The basis of any professional project management process is mastering project management methods. Master the ten most essential methods and lay the foundation for your successful project management:Work Breakdown Structure - The heart of project management because it makes it immediately clear what the project is about.Work Package Description - Precisely specifies the content of each work package.Milestone Plan - Provides an easy-to-understand overview of the current status and future progress.Gantt Chart - Visualizes a project’s time dimensions.Network Diagram - Visualizes, among other things, a project’s critical path and, thus, shows which work packages should not be delayed under any circumstances.Resource Plan - Provides an overview of required resources and project costs.Stakeholder Analysis - Helps to understand how to manage a project’s different stakeholders.Communication Plan - Schedules project team meetings and communications with stakeholders.Risk Plan – Definition of preventive and corrective actions for potential hazards.Quality Management Plan – Plan of measures to achieve a project’s quality objectives.Good methodological skills are essential for success in project management. However, they alone are not enough to excel as a project manager. Soft skills are at least as important. For this reason, I will help you in the next module to become even better in the 10 most important project management soft skills:Leadership - People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.Motivating Employees - With good project managers, employees tend to be internally mot