← Project Management
Core Skills
From the lifecycle, scope, and schedule to risk and agile: build a solid foundation in 'getting things delivered under constraints.'
Unit 1
Project Life Cycle
Tell the project life cycle apart from the five process groups (IPECC), master the full set of moves from charter and the three baselines to monitoring, acceptance, and lessons learned, and choose among predictive, adaptive, and hybrid life cycles by uncertainty.
Unit 2
Scope & WBS
Understand the WBS definition and the 100% rule, learn to decompose outcomes rather than actions down to work packages you can estimate and control (8/80), tell the WBS apart from task lists, Gantt charts, and org charts, and build one in five steps with a WBS dictionary as the scope baseline.
Unit 3
Schedule & the Critical Path
Use the Critical Path Method to compute the shortest project duration: find the longest chain of zero-float activities where any delay delays everything, and spend schedule compression and management attention where they count.
Unit 4
Risk Management
From risk registers and the probability-impact matrix to EMV and the four response strategies for threats and opportunities: turn 'something might go wrong' into 'we have a plan,' and keep contingency vs management reserves straight.
Unit 5
Agile & Scrum
Read the Agile Manifesto's 'over' statements as a priority ordering rather than a rejection, master Scrum's three empirical pillars, three accountabilities, five timeboxed events, and three artifacts with their commitments — and see through the mini-waterfall and status-meeting myths.