The ExpertRating Online Project Management Course (Project Management Applications) (leading to ExpertRating Project Management Applications Certification).
Increase your value to your employer by discovering and mastering
essential quantitative and qualitative project management
applications.
A successful project begins with process definition, data collection,
and the scoping of project requirements. Every project ends with a
motivated project team able to accomplish objectives on time and
within budget. Winning projects rely on accurate cost and time
estimates, identification of the critical path, and use of tracking
and control tools.
You'll
become proficient at recruiting project team members and empowering
them to succeed. You'll understand the stages of team development,
and you'll gain skills in developing and motivating team leaders.
You'll learn how to understand and relate to an organizational
culture and the differing characteristics of its work groups.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will
guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer
your questions. The instructor for this course will be
Tony Swaim.
Tony Swaim
About the ExpertRating Online Project Management Course (Project Management Applications)
instructor :Tony
Swaim has helped many clients, colleagues, and students reach
their professional and personal goals. He has been an online
instructor since 1998 and has taught at colleges and universities
across the United States since 1981. His focus areas are project
management, purchasing, continuous process improvement (CPI)/Six
Sigma, and supply chain management. Tony manages a successful
consulting firm, and his industry experience includes 20 years of
supply chain management. He earned an MBA from California State
University, Long Beach, and holds professional certifications in
six disciplines, including the Project Management Professional (PMP)
certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Project
Management Applications requirements:
Completion of Project Management Fundamentals (or equivalent
experience). Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet
Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
Required text: A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (3rd Edition) by the Project Management Institute.
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am working on." "The
course was stimulating and has equipped me with tools which I
will immediately apply to projects I have coming up and in my
review of a project I just finished. Through his expertise Tom
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increased time and cost constraints.
In our first lesson,
you'll learn how to
use a variety of
project management
data collection
tools including
check sheets,
histograms,
performance charts,
and process
definition tools
such as work
breakdown structure
(WBS) and
flowcharts. After
you master these
tools, you'll be
able to increase
your project
management
effectiveness by
leaps and bounds.
Friday - Lesson 02
Estimating is a very
important activity
for every
organization. It
helps you calculate
time and costs for
your project. When
you successfully use
estimates, your
actual cost of
project work is very
close to your
projections. In
today's lesson,
you'll learn how to
apply quantitative
and qualitative
estimating methods,
such as historical
analogy, the walk
through and Delphi
methods, expected
value, and estimates
under uncertainty.
Week Two
Wednesday - Lesson 03
Earned value is
gaining in
popularity in
project management
circles. Although
some people view it
as a new concept,
they're often
surprised to learn
that it's been
around for more than
30 years. In today's
lesson, I'll define
earned value,
describe its
history, and discuss
its benefits. You'll
learn about the
graphical and
mathematical
overview of earned
value, and discover
how to create a
step-by-step earned
value performance
measurement (EVPM)
system.
Friday - Lesson 04
Gantt charts, along
with work breakdown
structure (WBS),
earned value
performance
measurement (EVPM),
and the precedence
diagram method (PDM),
make up the big four
of project
management. A Gantt
chart may be the
most popular tool
associated with
project management
because it's an easy
to follow timeline
chart. In today's
lesson, you'll learn
about the history of
Gantt charts, find
out how to create
one, and discover
their benefits and
limitations.
Week Three
Wednesday - Lesson 05-
Network scheduling,
along with earned
value, represents
one of the most
technical aspects of
project management.
If you enjoy working
with charts and
numbers, this lesson
is right up your
alley! As with
earned value, the
precedence diagram
method (PDM)
includes a fair
amount of
terminology and a
little bit of tricky
math. Today you'll
learn the basics of
networks and see how
they relate to
project management.
You'll discover
activity-on-arc (AOA)
and activity-on-node
(AON) network
scheduling methods
and understand how
to use task
dependencies, dummy
activities, and
float time.
Friday - Lesson 06
In today's
lesson, we'll
take a break
from using
calculators and
studying
elaborate
models. You'll
learn how
resource
planning, work
flow diagrams,
and storyboards
can help you
create and
implement an
effective
project plan.
I'll also show
you how to
define and
implement a
project change
control system
and to how
control project
costs.
Week Four
Wednesday - Lesson 07
Today, we'll
discuss a few
more tools to
help you with
your projects.
We'll begin with
cost-volume
analysis, a tool
to help you
optimize choices
using costs,
volume, and
desired profits.
We'll move on to
Monte Carlo
simulation, a
sophisticated
tool you can use
when you deal
with completely
random
conditions.
You'll learn how
to use force
field analysis,
a tool that
helps you
evaluate a
decision based
on pros and
cons, and apply
the Pareto
principle, a
200-year-old
concept that
helps you to
focus on what's
important.
Friday - Lesson 08
I believe that too
many people in the
project management
field place too high
of an emphasis on
the role of project
management software.
While it has an
important role to
play as a tool,
software is not a
substitute for sound
planning, effective
implementation and
control, and
positive leadership.
In today's lesson,
I'll discuss the
nature of project
management software
and help you
identify winning
techniques and
processes. You'll
read two case
studies to help you
understand issues
pertaining to
software
implementation.
You'll learn why
some people are
reluctant to use
project management
software, and
discover ways to
evaluate and select
a software supplier.
Week Five
Wednesday - Lesson 09
Many project
managers and
team members
struggle to
improve their
projects'
output. Despite
their best
efforts to
improve customer
satisfaction,
project
personnel are
often unable to
make much
progress. The
best way to
succeed is to
use statistics
and a
data-driven
approach to
characterize and
improve your
projects. Today,
you'll learn
about the
measures of
location
(median, mode,
and mean), the
normal curve,
and measures of
dispersion
(range, mean
absolute
deviation,
variance, and
standard
deviation).
You'll see how
the Taguchi loss
function is an
alternative to
traditional
go/no-go
inspection.
You'll also
learn how to
measure
variation, use
prevention, and
apply
statistical
process control
(SPC) to help
you produce
predictable and
acceptable
results.
Friday - Lesson 10
Today, we'll discuss
the dimensions of
the project team.
For your project to
succeed, you need a
skilled project
manager and
committed capable
project team
members. You'll
learn how to
identify essential
competencies of an
effective project
manager, and how to
establish a winning
project team. You'll
understand what it
takes to recruit,
evaluate, and select
project team
members. And you'll
also learn about the
concepts of a core
team, extended team,
and the overly
important project
team.
Week Six
Wednesday - Lesson 11
I believe a potent
combination of a
high-functioning
project team and a
capable project
manager is essential
for your success in
project management.
Effective project
teams come together
through careful
planning and action.
In today's lesson,
we'll discuss work
group theory,
contrast formal and
informal work
groups, and identify
informal work group
characteristics.
You'll learn about
the stages of team
development,
understand why
change is so
important for your
project, and find
out why people are
reluctant to change.
You'll learn how to
overcome resistance
to change and
empower your project
team.
Friday - Lesson 12
Today, we'll discuss
fundamental
organizational
concepts. You'll
discover the purpose
of an organization
chart and learn why
a matrix
organization is a
common project
management
organizational
structure. You'll
understand key
coordinating
principles such as
authority,
responsibility,
accountability, and
power. And you'll
gain insights into
organizational
culture by
developing a deeper
understanding of
values and beliefs,
the elements of
successful
delegation, and
various theories of
motivation and
leadership.
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About the ExpertRating Online Project Management Course (Project Management Applications)
instructor :Tony
Swaim has helped many clients, colleagues, and students reach
their professional and personal goals. He has been an online
instructor since 1998 and has taught at colleges and universities
across the United States since 1981. His focus areas are project
management, purchasing, continuous process improvement (CPI)/Six
Sigma, and supply chain management. Tony manages a successful
consulting firm, and his industry experience includes 20 years of
supply chain management. He earned an MBA from California State
University, Long Beach, and holds professional certifications in
six disciplines, including the Project Management Professional (PMP)
certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
"This
was the first online course I have taken. It was very convenient
as the last 2 weeks of the course I had to travel to China on
business and was still able complete the course. I have already
begun using several ideas I learned in this course in projects I
am working on."
ExpertRating
is one of the world's only ISO 9001:2008 Certified companies (from
TUV America) offering an Online Project Management (Project Management Applications) Course (leading to ExpertRating Project Management (Project Management Applications) Skills Certification). 
It is very safe to buy from
ExpertRating. Apart from being an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, it is a member of the TRUSTe and HackerSafe approved.
