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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Project Planning and Communication: Mastering Gantt Charts and Stakeholder Management
This online course demonstrated how to develop a project management plan, assessed the nature of stakeholder groups and their impact, assessed the interaction between various components of a project and reflected on the suite of appropriate strategies for stakeholder management.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dennis Chapman
Lecturer in Project Management
Coventry University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop a project management plan that documents the actions necessary to define and coordinate activities, assesses project deliverables, and ensure the control and management of cost, schedule, and changes to the project
- Assess the nature of stakeholder groups and summarise their impact on project performance
- Design a stakeholder engagement plan that includes approaches to issues such as communication, ethics and leadership
- Assess the interaction between the various components of a project, and evaluate and critique how changes in one component can influence how the project manager should adjust their activities, and communicate the results to stakeholders
- Reflect on the suite of appropriate strategies for stakeholder management, and recommend an approach based upon stakeholder strengths and weaknesses, their impact on the project, and other categories of stakeholder characteristics
Syllabus
- Identify requirements and produce the scope and specification
- Create a work breakdown structure
- Estimate activity duration
- Develop a project schedule and optimise it to accommodate project constraints
- Identify and schedule resources
- Optimise the allocation of resources
- Understand stakeholder engagement, types of stakeholders, and their roles, influence and power
- Develop a stakeholder engagement plan
- Identify, categorise and prioritise stakeholders
Issued on 16th January 2021
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