The Basics of Good Project Management

Presenter: Greta Blash

Description:
Project management is a discipline that is in great and ever-increasing demand—across all industries and at business organizations of all sizes. It is so ubiquitous now that it has evolved from a specialized technical skill to a life skill.
Despite its wide proliferation, there remain key concepts that apply to all projects, regardless of size or budget. In this lecture, Greta Blash will outline these key principles to help attendees understand what is involved in successfully managing a project, from initiating and planning, to monitoring and controlling the effort, and, ultimately, to the final completion of the project.
This lecture will be a special presentation of CalSouthern’s Master Lecture Series brought to you in partnership with The Project Management Institute’s Orange County chapter.

Bio:
Greta Blash has extensive experience as an executive and consulting IT professional, both domestically and internationally. Her areas of experience include program management, project management, agile scrum development with emphasis in the areas of system implementations and conversions, customer relationship management, data warehousing and business intelligence.
She is a certified project manager whose extensive experience enables her to concurrently manage multiple high-risk, high-tech projects. She also holds an agile certification and business analysis certification from Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading professional association for the project, program and portfolio management profession.

Greta has taught project management certification courses worldwide for the last five years. In addition to project management professional and certified associate in project management certification examination preparation courses, she has also taught preparation courses for business analysis and agile certification programs. As a visiting professor at DeVry/Keller in Nevada, she taught the Master of Project Management program, a Global Accreditation Center-accredited program from PMI.

Greta has served as vice president of education and programs at PMI’s Southern Nevada Chapter in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has been the academic outreach liaison for PMI Region 7 since 2012.

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It's amazing that she said her weakness was procrastination which is one of the worse traits to have as a PM. But she still somehow became very successful. This goes to show that even those people who have weaknesses or traits that they think do not qualify as being a PM can be very successful regardless.

[maharjansajay]

Great comparison of tough project with basic things we do.What ever thing we do and need to finish it in certain time is PROJECT. Thank you realizing real life project management.

[hospitalityandlifewithtafa]

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[johnepaalat]

She is an SME. Made Project management easy to understand

[quraniyah]

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[davidblackman]

Really enjoyed this. Very clear. Can you believe how valuable PM skill sets are in every business sector, and at home, right? Thanks for breaking it down for everyone here.

[SuperYouthful]

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[drumassdstudent]

Being a college student taking a PM class in IT this was very informative and interesting. It made me aware of the basic points and what to research further. Very well done.

[tonyowens]

Hello and thank you from Wicklow the Garden of Ireland, where your explanation of Project Management has helped our team.
Excellent presentation modulated with a natural talent that invites easy learning.

[bdhodhv]

18:31 Starting Phase "why?" what does this mean? implications? stakeholders? approvals? money? from where? authorizations for resources?
23:42 Project Charter within a week. explains why I am doing this. approval.

27:53 Planning Phase If we don't plan, we have no idea.
31:35 "what?" detailed requirements, Work Breakdown Structure
35:16 "who?" stakeholders impact, project teams help, virtual teams challenges, global project teams
46:54 "when?" scheduling, inspection점검, critical path, critical resources
52:11 "how?" phase-to-phase-relationship, adaptive life cycle to adapt reprioritizations and iterations, agile민첩한 approach for reprioritizations

56:35 Performing Phase 1:02:48 variance analysis, change requests. There are always gonna be changes. Be proactive and be in top of things. 1:07:27 Effective communications. be concise. Communications plan. 1:10:50

1:11:50 Closing Phase. Documentation. Celebrate.
1:13:49 Validate scope. Make sure everything has been done and accepted.
1:14:35 Administrative Closure. The paperwork. So critical.

[zikapavlovic]

The presentation was comprehensive enough, clear, easy to follow and above all, very practical, thanks to the Greta's rich working experience. Since I am self-learning about this topic, I've found this video very useful. Thank you both Greta and California Southern University. Greetings from Europe.

[villapiazza]

Thank you for making this available to the public.

[gerarnation]

Excellent presentation! Right to the point and demystifying complicated approaches to Project Management. Real and grounded= effective

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Wonderful presentation, thank you for making this information available!

[EdenGold]

I completely agree with so many of the points you made about being a good project manager

[kalungigodfrey]

This has been my very first presentation on Project Management attended virtually very good clarity thank you very much

[Mohammad-zvrl]

Thanks for sharing such project management recent
experience with others

[alicechew]

Great presentation! it helps me in my work as rural infra Officer. Thank you Maam Greta and GOD bless you more.

[vincentkisenyibyansi]

A very good and wonderful presentation and I admire the simple way Project Management has been broken down to earth in very simple terms

[somethingbeautiful]

This information is invaluable! Implementing the skills presented here, I believe will benefit me in my personal and career life. Thank you so much 😊