Project Management Intermediate, Second Edition Study Guide

0-619-28563-X © 2005 Publish date: July 27, 2004 210 pages

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Course ID: pm-int-2nd-sg

Do you have the basics of managing projects figured out? If you're comfortable with the foundation level concepts and are ready to move on to the next level choose the next course in our series of computer training books dedicated to teaching you Project Management.

The Project Management Intermediate study guide builds upon the basics you learned in the Project Management: Basic course. This intermediate course teaches you about implementing quality measures, handling project risks, acquiring and motivating team members, and communicating effectively. By choosing the Project Management Intermediate courseware, you will learn skills that will make a big impact on how you work.

In addition to eight full units of high-quality content, the study guide contains numerous hands-on activities that include tasks such as identifying the characteristics and goals of quality management, creating quality management plans, conducting audits, developing quality control systems, designing risk management plans, following qualitative risk analysis processes, creating decision trees, and monitoring and controlling project risks.

The Project Management Intermediate courseware also covers the characteristics of good managers, building and maintaining productive teams, and using analysis tools and reports for evaluating a project's performance.

This course is a self-directed course that can be completed in as little of one day or you can take your time and tackle a unit per day and complete the course in just over a week.

Course Objectives

By choosing this course, you will understand the characteristics and goals of quality management, know how to incorporate quality management directives into projects, and understand the key issues of quality management. You will also be able to ensure quality during the project's initial phases, understand quality planning techniques, and recognize good quality management plans.

You will also learn how to conduct audits, locate appropriate areas for saving costs associated with quality improvement, work with quality control systems, and use quality control tools.

This course will teach you about project risks, risk management goals, risk management plans, issues that plans must address, using various tools to identify project risks, and classifying project risks.

Other objectives you will meet include understanding the goals and benefits of risk assessment, the qualitative risk analysis process, quantitative analysis techniques, decision trees, risk response process, categories for possible risk response plans, methods for monitoring and controlling project risks, and outcomes of monitoring and control.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces quality management

• Basics of quality management
• Quality planning

Unit 2 discusses quality assurance and control

• What is quality assurance
• What is quality control

Unit 3 goes over risk identification and management

• Basics of risk management
• Risk management planning
• Risk identification

Unit 4 discusses risk analysis, response, and control

• Qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis
• Risk response
• Monitoring and controlling risk

Unit 5 covers organizational planning

• Project managers
• Organizational planning

Unit 6 discusses staff acquisition and team building

• Staff acquisition
• Team building

Unit 7 covers planning and distributing information

• Communications planning
• Distributing information

Unit 8 goes over project performance and concluding a project

• Performance reporting
• Concluding a project