Project Management: Solving Common Project Problems
1h 5mIntermediate2015-04-24
Authors

Chris Croft
Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership
Course details
When you're balancing the triple constraints of project management (cost/quality/time) and trying to accomplish something new, problems are bound to crop up. In the course, project management trainer Chris Croft shows how to solve the most common problems that arise when working on projects. By breaking these issues into 4 major categories—people problems, quality problems, cost problems, and time problems—he provides helpful advice and techniques for how to handle them.
Topics include:
Name two elements that must be clearly identified in order to effectively define quality.
Recall the purpose of a change request form.
Explain how to produce a Gantt chart.
Identify the three elements used to determine total risk.
List three elements you can manipulate to adjust the schedule of a project.
Recognize the best time to inform a client that the project will not be completed as scheduled.
Topics include:
Name two elements that must be clearly identified in order to effectively define quality.
Recall the purpose of a change request form.
Explain how to produce a Gantt chart.
Identify the three elements used to determine total risk.
List three elements you can manipulate to adjust the schedule of a project.
Recognize the best time to inform a client that the project will not be completed as scheduled.
Skills covered
Project Management SkillsProject ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Avoiding People Problems
- 02 - Managing stakeholders who have conflicting requirements
- 03 - Engaging team members throughout the process
- 04 - Communication
2. Avoiding Quality Problems
- 05 - Ensuring customer expectations are met
- 06 - Defining quality
3. Avoiding Cost Problems
- 07 - Making sure that nothing gets forgotten
- 08 - Generating realistic estimates
- 09 - Controlling scope creep
- 10 - Discovering hidden overspends
4. Avoiding Lateness Problems
- 11 - Missing the real critical path
- 12 - Avoiding and minimizing the effects of mistakes
- 13 - Losing resources to other projects
- 14 - Monitoring and adjusting the schedule
Conclusion
- 15 - Performing actions in sequence
Frequently Asked Questions
- 16 - How do I estimate tasks
- 17 - When should I tell the customer that the project is running late
- 18 - How often should I have progress meetings