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10 Best Coursera Courses for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The course includes instructions of how to access a free Jira Software Cloud site to complete the lab exercises, so you’ll need a computer to do that, you can’t use the Coursera app. It covers marketing, financial accounting, managing people, corporate finance, operations management, and a Capstone project as the final course.

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3 Ways to Improve Cost Estimates with Your Teams

Project Risk Coach

The group identified several items that Jane had not thought of including facilities, the cost to interface the policy admin system to a third party, contingency reserves, and financing cost. She facilitated the round robin exercise asking each participant for their top three. Why do the disagreements exist?"

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The Stakeholder Engagement Workshop is now open!

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This course is about 3 hours of training so you can claim 3 PDUs against the Talent Triangle (claim the hours that you spend on the course materials – if you do the exercises and watch all the bonus training you can probably claim more). I can issue an invoice/receipt for your Finance team and take payment in a variety of ways.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Afterwards, in a second exercise, students conduct a rigorous stakeholder analysis mitigates and realize that the tension was the result of anchoring heuristics. About the author: Roland Hoffmann, who founded Hoffmann Conseho in 2007, has spent 20 years leading projects in technology, construction, marketing, operations and finance.

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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

The Empathy Mapping exercise helps developers to put themselves in the stakeholders’ shoes in order to see and understand their needs, motivations, and actions better. Internal or External governance such as Finance, Legal, PMO, Risk, and Audit may fall into the category. However, the reality is different.

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A Guide to Project Closure: 12 Essential Things To Do

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The easiest way to do this is to talk to the person you’ve been dealing with in Finance and make sure they’ve got everything they need to shut down the project budget. A quick note about how you found working with them and what their performance to the contract was can make a big difference for future procurement exercises.

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5 Things Better Than Conference Calls

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There are exercises, flip charts, brainstorming. Call the testers and chat to them without the Finance rep listening in. You can make them less painful by learning great strategies to chair a meeting and by streamlining the process with templates — all of which is available in my Meetings Template Kit.

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