Project Management Tools

As you move ahead in your career, you are likely to face more complex and difficult challenges. Some of these may involve the coordination of many different people, the completion of many tasks in a precise sequence, and the expenditure of a great deal of time and money.

You can do this well, or you can do it badly. If you do this well, you'll complete your projects on time, and with minimal wastage of resources. This will build your reputation as a competent, successful manager. If you do this badly, you'll lose this reputation, and your career will most-likely stall. This is why you need to learn how to manage projects well.

This section explains some of the specific skills you will need to plan and run projects, helping you to complete them successfully and with minimum waste.

Enjoy using these tools!

• Introduction
• Estimating Time Accurately
• Risk/Impact Probability Chart – Learning to prioritize risks
• Scheduling Simple Projects
• Gantt Charts – Scheduling projects with dependent stages
• Critical Path Analysis and PERT – Scheduling complex projects
• Logframes and the Logical Framework Approach – Planning robust, coherent, successful projects
• The Planning Cycle – A planning process for middle-sized projects
• Planning Large Projects & Programs
• Kotter's 8-Step Change Model – Implementing change powerfully and successfully
• Stakeholder Analysis – Working out whose support you need
• Stakeholder Management – Communicating to win support for your projects
• Influence Maps – Uncovering where the power lies in your projects

We will see each of this one by one, let us start by Introduction