Project Management: Managing and Closing Successfully

Overview

To round out your data-analysis skills in project management, you'll manage a project by beginning work, executing the plan, tracking progress, reporting performance, and implementing change control. You'll also close various projects and project elements like sprints, releases, adaptive projects, and predictive projects. Lastly, you'll create a final report. This is the fourth and final course in a multi-course Specialization. All of the courses in this Specialization require that you have a recent version of Microsoft Word and Excel installed in order to open the course data files. The course setup instructions provided in the first course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Syllabus

Managing a Project

You finished your project planning and integrated the outputs from each of the planning processes into a comprehensive project management plan. Now, you want to transition your project from planning to execution. In this lesson, you will execute a project plan. The project team members need a coach to guide them as they undertake the work defined in the scope statement. Executing a project plan ensures that the project team is on the same page and that the project is completed on time, within budget, and with the required quality.

Closing a Project

You have successfully executed the project plan and obtained all deliverables from the project team. You are ready to hand over the project to the customer. In this lesson, you will close the project. Unfinished business, contracts not correctly closed out, and poor documentation can turn into months of additional work and expenditures. The last thing you do on a project will be the first thing people remember about your efforts overall. Formal project closure helps ensure that there are no loose ends that could unravel the good work of your team and the success of your project.