Project Management Lessons Learned

Curriculum

11 Sections
12 Lessons
Lifetime

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Introduction
2
- 1.1
  Introduction
- 1.2
  How To Report PDUs To The PMI
The Magic Of Accountability
How to use the power of accountability to give you the authority you need to ensure project success.
1
- 2.1
  Accountability – Authority – Leverage – The Magic Sentence
The Importance Of The WBS
How the work breakdown structure (WBS) makes everything else in project management easy, including a $140M example.
1
- 3.1
  The Foundation of Success – Convincing Reluctant Teams
The Power Of Process
Why best practice process is so incredibly powerful, and why the precedence diagram is your most important PM tool, with a $140M example.
1
- 4.1
  The Power of Process – A $140M Example
Planning The Risk Budget
How risk management makes the entire project management life-cycle work, with essential tips, eight common risks, and a professional risk register template.
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- 5.1
  Practical Advice – Eight Common Risks – Budgeting Tips
Managing The Risk Budget
Essential advice for managing risks once the project is underway, how much risk budget you should have left as you proceed, and how to keep as much risk budget as possible when under pressure to reduce it.
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- 6.1
  Management Advice – Defending Your Risk Budget
Backfitting User Scenarios
Why requirements should be derived from higher-level user scenarios, with an example of how backfitting scenarios helped ensure the success of a $20M project.
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- 7.1
  Scenarios to Requirements – Two for One Acceptance Tests
Make Friends With Procurement
Why the Project Manager should make friends with all the supporting departments to make your job easier, and an expensive story about why it is so important to formally close procurements.
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- 8.1
  The Benefits Of Support Organizations
The Top 3 Drivers Of Project Success
Why the top 3 drivers of project success are so important, with a true story about how they could have saved a real project.
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- 9.1
  Top Three Mistakes – Top Three Solutions
Focus On The Success Path
Why the PM should broadcast a success oriented mindset to their entire team, with a famous story that illustrates why, and a real example of how it helps.
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- 10.1
  The Essential Project Manager Mindset
The Benefits Of Telling The Truth
Why telling the truth is the best thing you can do for your project, your team, your boss, and your career.
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- 11.1
  An Impossible Job – Telling the Truth – Getting Promoted

How To Report PDUs To The PMI

This course gives you two (2) Professional Development Units (PDUs) in the Business Acumen category, if you are pursuing or maintaining a certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

To claim the PDUs at PMI.org:

Click on your account name or “myPMI” at the top of the site, then “Certifications”, then “Report PDUs”, then “Course or Training”.
Then enter “Institute For Practical Project Management” for the Provider and “Project Management Lessons Learned” for the Course. Just as plain text. DON’T choose a code from the drop down, or you will get some other no longer offered course. Just enter text as specified above. Then enter two hours in the Business Acumen category, and submit.