Managing Small Projects

Develop the skill set needed to successfully manage smaller projects.Have you wondered how to make your small projects run as smoothly as possible—without building in so many steps that they get cumbersome? In this course, author and project manager Bonnie Biafore shows how a successful small project starts with planning: documenting goals, identifying risks, measuring success, and confirming decision makers. The course also covers organizing your files, estimating time and costs, building a solid team, scheduling work, and getting the project underway. In addition, you'll explore how to hand out and track assignments, communicate with the team, work through issues, and bring your project to a close. This course follows the relocation of a small business as the sample project, but the course's strategies apply to a wide variety of small projects, including those in marketing, business development, product development, software development, freelancing, and the like. Topics include: Defining the life cycle and scope of small projects Identifying the project customer and other stakeholders Determining the right level of management Collaborating Scheduling work Managing risk Keeping things moving Evaluating the project Getting sign-off and tying up loose ends