RedVector RVLS-2875

PMBOK® Guide - Sixth Edition: 18-Processes for Managing Project Communications

PMBOK® Guide - Sixth Edition: 18-Processes for Managing Project Communications

2 hrs. Online Course

Level: Intermediate

Item#: RVLS-2875

SME: Neal Rowland, PMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL Expert, ITIL Practitioner

This course has been discontinued
 
Project communications encompass a variety of deliverables such as project updates, project dashboards, performance metrics, status reports, schedule updates and details pertaining to the project budget or any of its constraints. Additionally, updates are made to the project management plan where details pertinent to stakeholder management, communications management, and project baseline activities can be found. Through this course, you will gain insight relevant to communication methods, information management systems and performance reporting activities that will be used as either tools or techniques while managing communications. You will also learn about the outputs or products of the manage communications process which are essentially project communications. Upon completion of this course, you will have a working knowledge of the inputs to manage communications, those being the communications management plan, work performance reports, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets.

Materials in this class are based on the text, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide)

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
 
  • Implement inputs such as the communications management plan, work performance information, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets.
  • Utilize various communication tools and techniques.
  • Incorporate products of the manage communications process (project communications) that encompass a variety of deliverables such as project updates, project dashboards, performance metrics, status reports, schedule updates and details pertaining to the project budget or any of its constraints.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations.
  • Distribute project information.
  • Report project performance.
  • Use variance analysis and forecasting techniques.
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Neal Rowland, PMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL Expert, ITIL Practitioner
Neal Rowland, PMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL Expert, ITIL Practitioner Photo
Neal Rowland has been a Project Management Professional (PMP) for over 13 years. During that time he has instructed, authored courses, advised training companies and corporations, and applied the best practices of project management in his work at Microsoft, Plex, and others. As the Lead Crowd Surfer of The Crowd Training [www.thecrowdtraining.com], Neal leads product development, instructional design, and graphic design. He is a contributor to the PMBOK. Beyond being certified as a PMP, Neal is also a certified agile project manager (PMI-ACP) and IT service management (ITIL Expert and ITIL Practitioner). Neal currently resides in the Detroit area with his wife and 5 kids.