Lesson 5: Managing Your Project: Part 1
In this lesson, we'll build a simple 10-step project methodology.
Welcome!
We've spent a lot of quality time and energy building our foundation of project management awareness, and looked at some of the fundamental basics.
Now, let's shift things into a more festive gear, and spend this lesson and the next going through a simple 10-step project management methodology (based on the Lewis Method by James P. Lewis) that will help you really grasp what project managmement is all about.
However, before we launch ourselves into this lesson with reckless abandonment (sorry, I have to ask, is there really any other kind of abandonment? Let's discuss!), I want to say a few words. These are very important.
Ahem.
Since the beginning of time, human beings have looked towards the stars...
That was a joke.
Sorry.
Here is what I really need to say.
Please remember that this course is designed for (very) new Project Managers, or those who would like to obtain an introduction to the field. As a result, you should not expect to be able to apply the following 10 steps until you have more experience in the field.
I know that this is something that kind of dampens our collective enthusiasm at the prospect of becoming proficent Project Managers at the end of this course. However, as much as I wish I could develop a course that could do this, there is no course in the known universe that can teach you how to become a Project Manager. Only a series of courses, combined with actual experience in the workplace (which is a kind of school in itself) will serve to enable you to become an expert Project Manager.
Won't someone please think of the children?
