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Project Mangement -- A Quick Tour

1. Modern Project Management
2. Integration of Organization Strategy with Projects
3. Defining the Project
4. Developing a Network Plan
5. Managing Risk
6. Reducing Project Time
7. Resource Scheduling
8. Organization
9. Leadership: Being an Effective Project Manager
10. Managing Project Teams
11. Partnering: Managing Interorganizational Relations
12. Progress and Performance Measurement and Evaluation
13. Project Audit and Closure
14. International Projects
15. Formulas

Project Management Essentials

Managing Teams

• Introduction and Understanding How Teams Work
  • What Makes a Good Team?
  • Matching Team to Task
  • Analyzing Team Roles
• Setting Up a Team
  • Setting Goals
  • Providing Support for a Team
  • Establishing Team Trust
  • Maximizing Performance
  • Creating a Self-Managed Team
  • Taking On an Existing Team
• Improving Team Efficiency
  • Analyzing Team Dynamics
  • Communicating Effectively
  • Running Team Meetings
  • Networking a Team
  • Sharing Information Outside a Team
  • Thinking Creatively
  • Dealing with Problems
  • Improving Standards in a Team
  • Rating Team Leadership
• Working for the Future
  • Measuring Performance
  • Tracking Team Progress
  • Training a Team
  • Setting Targets
  • Rewarding Performance
  • Adapting to Change
  • Planning Future Goals for a Team

Making Decisions

Project Cost Management

1. Objectives and a Sample Case
   
   
2. The Importance of Project Cost Management
   
   
3. Basic Principles of Cost Management
   
   
4. Resource Planning
   
   
5. Cost Estimating
   
   
6. Cost Budgeting
   
   
7. Cost Control
   
   
8. Using Software to Assist in Cost Management
   
   
9. Case Wrap-Up
   
   
10. Section Summary, Discussion Questions, Exercises and Recommended Reading

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• Project Management: How a Project Manager Deals with Human Relations
  
  
• Project Manager interviews
  • Interview 1
  • Interview 2
  • Interview 3
  • Interview 4
    
    
• Integration of Organization Strategy with Projects
  • Introduction
  • The Strategic Management Process: An Overview
    • Strategic Management Process Includes Four Activities
    • Long-Range Goals and Objectives
    • Analyze and Formulate Strategies to Reach
    • Implement Strategies through Projects
  • Lack of a Strategic Priority System Creates Problems
    • Connection of Projects to Strategic Plan: The Implementation Gap
    • Project Selection and Organizational Politics
    • Multiple Projects and Resource Contentions
  • Moving To An Effective Organizational Priority System
    • Building Commitment for a Central Project Priority System
  • A GENERIC SELECTION AND PRIORITY SYSTEM
  • ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PRIORITY SYSTEM OVER THE LONG HAUL -- THE BALANCED-SCORECARD MODEL
  • Summary and Quiz
  • Project Sample: Case 1
  • Project Sample: Case 2
  • Project Sample: Case 3
  • Sample: Interface Roles and Responsibilities of Key Players
  • Sample: Interview Questionnaire: Priority Questions

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• Data Mining Primitives, Hierarchies, Architecture and Coupling
• Data Preprocessing for Data Warehouses
• Dimensions of data quality, tuples with missing values, data smoothing and data integration
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• Data Warehouse Project vs Any Other Large Database Implementation
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• Data Preprocessing for Data Warehouses
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• Data Characterization, Discrimination, Association, Classification, Prediction, Clustering, and Evolution Analysis: Differences and Similarities
• Data Warehouse Project vs Any Other Large Database Implementation
• Data Mining and Data Warehousing in Biology, Medicine and Health Care

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