BusinessU: Utilizing Project Management Techniques to Improve Your Efficiency

Description

Whether you consider yourself a planner or not, implementing a few simple project management skills and tools can help provide leadership and direction to all your projects. This presentation will introduce you to the project management process and review some steps for planning, organizing, and managing tasks to achieve your goals. We’ll review how to develop a project scope, create an action plan and schedule, and identify potential risks within the project. 

Key take-aways from the presentation include:

• Learning key project management terminology
• Understanding the project management process
• Developing a project proposal and scope statement
• Breaking a project down into manageable components
• Managing project “scope creep”
• Mitigating risk and considering contingency plans
• Identifying standards to use with all future projects. 

Instruction by Cindy Levernois, Adjunct Profession, School of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Excelsior College

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