Software Project Management using MS Projects professional | Udemy

Easily understand project management frame work, concepts and become an expert project manager by using software tool – MS projects professional.  There are activities and even a case study, which make learning inquisitive and fun. Further more, this covers waterfall ,agile  and Kanban project methodologies. As tool like MS project is used, you will also easily understand Software Development Life cycle as well (SDLC)

In this course, you will learn about project management framework and important concepts in line with PMI’s, PMBOK(Project Management Body Of Knowledge) using MS project 2016. As project management framework /concepts is more theoretical and in absence of practical exposure, it could be difficult for beginners to understand and  appreciate the same. This is where, one can learn and appreciate them effectively, through the use of  a tool or application and more particularly by using a ‘simulated’ business scenario case study.

With this in mind, have designed this course and used MS projects 2016 important features, to present the project management framework and concepts, in easily understandable manner. Additionally, have also used the  most recent built in agile  and kanban functionality in MS project professional 2016 to demonstrate agile method of project execution.

If you are a computer science student or a graduate planning for career in IT  or a software developer  who wants to understand project management, then this course would help to demystify just not only project management but also learn about critical feature in MS projects professional 2016. To make learning easier, I have built quiz exercises and more importantly have – case study included, which the participants are expected to build, baseline, execute and analyse results as a simulated project using MS project.

This course will also be beneficial to experienced folks as well, who wish to learn MS project professional 2016. But, the features explained in the course would be to the extend of understanding project management framework & concepts and not all features of MS project features would have been explained. However, many a times, even experienced folks would not use all the  product features just like any other application or MS office products and learn them as and when required, once basics are understood. Earn up to 5 PDUs on Education, if you are already PMP certified.

This course has following sessions

• Introduction : Important  project management concepts and overview / features of MS project 2016 are presented
• Initiation
• Planning : Includes scheduling, CPM and estimation.
• Manage and control : Includes Earned value analysis .
• Case study
• Closing
• Agile methodology
• Kanban methodology
• Additional Bonus – An overview about Cloud PPM and brief about other knowledge areas from PMBOK perspective.

This course focuses specifically on  Time, Cost  and Scope management which is considered as ‘triple’ constraint in any project along with basics of Risk management. Once the participants of good understanding on them the rest of the project management knowledge areas like Integration,Procurement, Quality, Human resources, Communication and Stakeholders could be simpler. Further more, most of these knowledge areas are customized based on the organization, industry one is associated.

Finally,  the participant would not only learn about MS project 2016, but also use the same to learn Project management framework and concept for easier and effective learning.

Though project management topic is generic and used across industry, this course is specifically focuses on Software product & services industry examples.

— Happy Learning.