Top 10 Project Management Lessons Learned - Earn 2 PDU's
Take a 25 year career shortcut with the ten most important lessons learned in Project Management.
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"Outstanding course with priceless pragmatic wisdom – these are the lessons that guarantee project success." – Ken Semerkant, PMP
How the Project Manager can use accountability to become the most powerful and relaxed person on the project.
The magic sentence the PM can use that will maximize the chances of the organization giving you what you need.
Why defining the Work Breakdown Structure of deliverables makes everything else in PM easy.
How I talked a senior, reluctant, aggressive, and arrogant team into being WBS believers.
A real example of a WBS my team developed for a $140M aerospace project.
Mathematical proof of how powerful best practice process is.
A real example of a Precedence Diagram my team developed for a $140M aerospace project.
Why risk management makes the entire PM process work, with essential risk planning tips.
Eight common risks it is always worth considering including in your project’s risk register.
Essential tips for monitoring and controling the risk budget as you proceed through your project.
How to defend keeping as much of your risk budget as possible when you are under pressure to give some up.
The two big advantages of deriving the requirements from a higher level description of user workflow.
A story about how backfitting a set of user scenarios at relatively little cost helped reduce millions of dollars of acceptance risk.
Why closing is a separate, organized set of project activities.
An embarrassing story about not formally closing a project procurement, and the process that would have prevented it.
A very useful story about a PM that made all three of the most common mistakes in project management.
The huge benefits of keeping your eye on the top three drivers of project success.
How the PM broadcasting an optimistic and success oriented attitude to the entire team helps maximize project success.
An example of how believing a solution existed, even though we didn’t know what it was, enabled us to shorten a schedule by six months.
A story of how I told the truth when my boss asked me to do something impossible, even though he obviously did not want to hear it.
The three big advantages I gained from repeatedly telling the truth, for my project, my boss, and my own reputation and career.
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