Online Project Management Courses By MindEdge
PMP 8 - Project Communications Management
This course was designed as a supplemental study guide for the major content areas of Chapter 10 of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fourth Edition. In this course, you will learn about how project management teams can effectively communicate with the project's various stakeholders.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Understand basic communication models and how these models can be applied to project communications management techniques
- Understand the various inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of Project Communications Management activities
- Understand the basics of effective communication in the context of project management
- Identify stakeholders that should be listed in the stakeholder register, conduct stakeholder analysis, and create stakeholder management strategies to maximize positive stakeholder impacts and minimize negative stakeholder impacts
- Understand the importance of the communications management plan
- Conduct communication requirements analysis to determine how communications will be planned for in the communications management plan
- Understand the different methods and technologies of communication, and explain under which circumstances specific methods and technologies are more likely to be successful
- Understand how stakeholder expectations can be managed so that the project maintains its planned performance baselines and satisfies its acceptance criteria
- Understand the conventions of creating performance reports that use variance analysis and forecasting techniques to update stakeholders on the progress of the project
Prerequisites: Learners should have some experience in project management and will need to have access to the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Fourth Edition (PMBOK Guide).
Estimated time to complete: 3.5 hours of online course work
Cost: $79
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