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I want to learn project management

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TheoPetro

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I want to learn just about everything there is to know about project management. I have had business courses in operations management and they touched on critical path stuff and a few project management topics but I want basically an outline of major topics in the field. Anyone have an idea of where I could find something like this? I can do the research on my own but I dont know the major topics to search for.
 
I've started taking some PM training through work. I'd like to go through the whole thing to get my certification but I'm not sure if I'll go through with it.
 
Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
this will be your first project to manage!
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just write you a statement of work and communicate it to your stakeholders, showing your types of expected risks and mitigation plans... yeah thats it...

 
Originally posted by: loki8481
w/o a degree or certification
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add "or a clue what I'm doing" to the end of that list and you just described every PM but one in my entire company 😛
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Truth. We have one decent PM here and I will shed many tears if he ever decides to leave.

KT
 
Originally posted by: LS21
Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
this will be your first project to manage!
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just write you a statement of work and communicate it to your stakeholders, showing your types of expected risks and mitigation plans... yeah thats it...
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Ummm, yeah...I'm going to need you to come up with mitigation plan for every possible problem including countermeasures.

"But we haven't even started the project yet."

Ummm, yeah...so where's that mitigation plan?

"I've been Dilberted. Again."
 
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I want to learn just about everything there is to know about project management. I have had business courses in operations management and they touched on critical path stuff and a few project management topics but I want basically an outline of major topics in the field. Anyone have an idea of where I could find something like this? I can do the research on my own but I dont know the major topics to search for.
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u cant get the pmi cert w/o going thru the official courses
 
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Originally posted by: loki8481
w/o a degree or certification
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add "or a clue what I'm doing" to the end of that list and you just described every PM but one in my entire company 😛
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Truth. We have one decent PM here and I will shed many tears if he ever decides to leave.

KT
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amen...

but making them all get certs (pmp?) at least made them all be able to see where each other is screwing up... and actually helped a couple (introduced them to risk management)...
 
Originally posted by: JEDI
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I want to learn just about everything there is to know about project management. I have had business courses in operations management and they touched on critical path stuff and a few project management topics but I want basically an outline of major topics in the field. Anyone have an idea of where I could find something like this? I can do the research on my own but I dont know the major topics to search for.
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u cant get the pmi cert w/o going thru the official courses
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That and a certain number of verifiable hours of project management experience.
 
Originally posted by: tenthumbs
Originally posted by: JEDI
Originally posted by: TheoPetro
I want to learn just about everything there is to know about project management. I have had business courses in operations management and they touched on critical path stuff and a few project management topics but I want basically an outline of major topics in the field. Anyone have an idea of where I could find something like this? I can do the research on my own but I dont know the major topics to search for.
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u cant get the pmi cert w/o going thru the official courses
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That and a certain number of verifiable hours of project management experience.
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Yep. To be eligible to take the exam:

Eligibility

* ? Applicants must have 35 hours of specific project management education.
* ? With a Bachelor?s Degree (or the global equivalent): Applicants must have a minimum three years? professional project management experience, during which 4,500 hours are spent leading and directing project tasks, up to eight years from the time of application.
* ? Without a Bachelor?s Degree (or the global equivalent): Applicants must have a minimum five years? professional project management experience, during which at least 7,500 hours are spent leading and directing project tasks, up to eight years from the time of application.
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I took the class a couple of months ago. Just need to muster the energy to fill out the application and take the exam.
 
If you do take the test, remember to answer the questions as a real PM should answer them, not as someone who has logic and works in the real world. That's the difference between markgm, PMP and markgm.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
w/o a degree or certification
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add "or a clue what I'm doing" to the end of that list and you just described every PM but one in my entire company 😛
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that's one more than I have here

OP: do you know how to send an email and use Outlook? You're hired!
 
When I found out there were courses, and degrees, and some sort of an organization for project manangement, I was floored. Never realized how complicated it all was.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
When I found out there were courses, and degrees, and some sort of an organization for project manangement, I was floored. Never realized how complicated it all was.
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amazing how one can inflate the simple concept of "organization"

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

OP: do you know how to send an email and use Outlook? You're hired!
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and you have to want to make lots of flowcharts and use words like "alignment"!
 
Originally posted by: LS21
Originally posted by: Sphexi
When I found out there were courses, and degrees, and some sort of an organization for project manangement, I was floored. Never realized how complicated it all was.
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amazing how one can inflate the simple concept of "organization"
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That was actually my initial reaction. But then I saw that our product development manager was totally serious on the topic, so I kept my mouth shut. At my last job I ran a team of 20 people, and granted what we were doing was so simple that a half-dead monkey could handle it, but my training was all of 3 hours. I can't imagine a project that would be so complicated that it would require someone dedicated to just organizing it, and doing nothing else.
 
Originally posted by: LS21

and you have to want to make lots of flowcharts and use words like "alignment"!
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meh, the secret of project management is you get everybody else to do the work. You allocate the resources and then nail them to do the job and meet the deadline you arbitrarily set. And make sure you CC yourself and BCC the resources manager - this way you are working directly with the resource's manager instead of the resource. The resource is not on the same level as you so technically you should go from the top down.

I've got tons of documents/standard forms and basically I just fill in the blanks.

Another secret is at every meeting you have to throw at LEAST 3 people under the bus just to make it clear that joe and tammy's department is the one holding things up, not you. A really good one is "I sent an e-mail." If they say they didn't get it, blame it on "the system", that way your ass is covered.
 
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