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This dynamic summary book offers essential project management insights for students and learners. It emphasizes adapting to evolving practices, even in our fast-paced world. Detailed tutorials on Microsoft Project software are included in various chapters.

Learning Objective 1. Explain the importance and benefits of the project closure. 2. Elaborate on the activities conducted by the project team while closing a project. 3. Explain the post-implementation review. 4. Describe how the benefits realization is monitored and validated following the closing phase of a project.

Learning Objectives 1. Recognize and describe the evolution and founding principles of agile project management approach. 2. List and describe the factors to consider when adopting an agile approach. 3. Identify the elements of an agile environment. 4. Recognize the most common agile methods and scaling frameworks. 5. Describe the recent trends in agile project management.

The monitoring and controlling process differentiates from other processes (i.e., initiating, planning, executing, and closing out), in that, it spans throughout the whole project. Project managers should ensure that everything is on track (e.g., scheduled activities are completed on time, there is no budget overrun), and take the project back on track if it deviates from its three main baselines, which are triple (iron) constraints, scope, schedule and cost, and other constraints such as qua...

Learning Objectives 1. Define project risks and differentiate between risk types. 2. Identify risks that may occur during the implementation of a project. 3. Describe the process to create a project risk management plan. 4. Conduct a qualitative risk analysis. 5. Develop and implement risk responses based on identification and analysis of risks.

Learning Objectives 1. Define the project cost and explain its types. 2. Create a project cost plan to help guide the project team through the implementation and closure phases of the project. 3. Define the budget estimation techniques. 4. Describe the process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers. Define the resources that will be utilized in a project, including the project team members 5. Practice the allocation of reso...

Learning Objectives 1. Describe how to create a project resource plan. 2. Define the resources that will be utilized in a project, including the project team members. 3. Elaborate on resource loading, leveling, and crashing to conduct resource allocation effectively. 4. Practice on Microsoft Project to determine and allocate the resources, and solveresource overallocation and conflict problems as well as scheduling issues.

Learning Objectives 1. Describe the process to create a project schedule. 2. Define activities based on Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). 3. Describe how activities can be sequenced. 4. Elaborate on the techniques to estimate activity duration. 5. Create a network diagram by identifying the early start and early finish times, late start and late finish times, floats (slacks), and the critical path. 6. Practice on Microsoft Project to create a Gantt Chart and an Activity Network Diagram.

Learning Objectives 1. Evaluate the importance of good communication in project management 2. Create a communication management plan. 3. Describe the interpersonal and technical skills that project managers need to lead project teams and manage the projects effectively. 4. Explain the methods of how project managers can cope with conflicts by utilizing interpersonal skills. 5. List the leadership styles, and define the servant leadership that is favored for project managers. 6. Explain ...

Learning Objectives 1. Describe the process to identify stakeholders in a project and create a stakeholder register. 2. Explain the management of stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations, address issues, and foster appropriate stakeholder engagement involvement. 3. List the conditions when project managers need to update the stakeholder engagement plan.