Overview

This course is a continuation and supplement to the course "Become a Results Driven Project Manager" from OpExecs Academy. In this course, you will learn the importance of resource and capacity planning and why you should develop a resource management approach to your projects. You will discover the different levels of resource planning and how to use specific tools to help manage your project plans. You will also learn how to utilize the Gantt chart to balance your project plan against your current resources to ensure that your organization has the capacity to execute. You will discover how to calculate the critical path and identify tasks that have a large time requirement to estimate the additional cost above the manhours of time required to execute the project. Additionally, you will learn how to deploy the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to look at all of the projects within the organization to better plan resource hours and even the load of multiple projects across the organization. Once you grasp the traditional methods for resource planning, you will discover how agile methods for resource planning differ from traditional methods. This will allow you to recognize the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the project and allow you to use these approaches to plan resources, generate timely results, and give your team a competitive edge.Following this training you will be able to:Understand the importance of resource and capacity planningRecognize why you should develop a resource management approach to your projectsIdentify the different levels of resource planningUnderstand why you need a project planIdentify milestones and possible project phasesCreate a Gantt chart to manage individual projects along with multiple projectsCalculate the critical path for a projectEstimate the additional costs required to execute your projectUse the Gantt of Gantts and stacked area chart to manage multiple projects within an organizationAnalyze and document gapsTake steps as required to adjust your project planUnderstand and apply the four principles of the Agile manifestoRecognize the specific agile methodology called scrum and how it changes the way you conduct resource planningDefine the roles, artifacts, and types of ceremonies held using the scrum methodologyPlan and select the scope for a sprint using the resource assessment tools that an agile team might useDetermine the environment where an agile methodology would be a good fit for the project

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