Mission Operations and Data Workflow Specialist
Course title: Project Management Foundations
Target group: Junior (Fresh Employee)
Level: Awareness
Project Management Foundations
Provider
Description
Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives. Bonnie Biafore has always been fascinated by how things work and how to make things work better. In this course, she explains the fundamentals of project management, from establishing project goals and objectives and building a project plan to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, she provides tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance. The course also provides an overview of the changes introduced in the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Seventh Edition. This course provides exercises for most videos based on a healthcare/IT case study project.
Target
- Individuals interested in project management
- especially in healthcare/IT sectors
Sector
- Healthcare and Information Technology (IT)
Area
- Project management fundamentals and techniques
Learning outcomes
- Understand the principles and fundamentals of project management, including setting project goals and creating an effective project plan.
- Develop the ability to manage resources, scheduling, and tasks to achieve objectives in both small and large projects.
- Gain skills in communication, holding meetings, and keeping a project on track throughout its lifecycle.
- Comprehend the processes involved in controlling, closing, and successfully completing a project.
- Familiarize with the updates and changes introduced in the Seventh Edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide by the Project Management Institute.
- Apply exercises and case studies based on healthcare and IT projects to enhance practical understanding.
- Build the capability to evaluate project success and gain customer acceptance throughout the project lifecycle.
Learning content
- Get to Know Project Management
- First Things First
- Develop a Project Plan
- Build a Project Schedule
- An Overview of Agile Project Management
- While You Run the Project
- Work with Teams
- Monitoring and Controlling Processes and Performance
- Close the Project
- Changes to PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition
Approach/method
Online
Duration
4 hours on-demand video
Assessment
No
Certification
Yes
Cost
Free
Date
Always available
Location
Online
Website
Course title: Analytics for Decision Making
Target group: Mid Level Employee
Level: Awareness
Analytics for Decision Making
Provider
edX
Description
Making good decisions with data can give you a distinct competitive advantage in business. This statistics and data analysis course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of sound statistical thinking that can be applied in surprisingly wide contexts, sometimes even before there is any data! Key concepts like understanding variation, perceiving relative risk of alternative decisions, and pinpointing sources of variation will be highlighted.
These big picture ideas have motivated the development of quantitative models, but in most traditional statistics courses, these concepts get lost behind a wall of little techniques and computations. In this course we keep the focus on the ideas that really matter, and we illustrate them with lively, practical, accessible examples.
We will explore questions like: How are traditional statistical methods still relevant in modern analytics applications? How can we avoid common fallacies and misconceptions when approaching quantitative problems? How do we apply statistical methods in predictive applications? How do we gain a better understanding of customer engagement through analytics?
This course will be is relevant for anyone eager to have a framework for good decision-making. It will be good preparation for students with a bachelor’s degree contemplating graduate study in a business field.
Opportunities in analytics are abundant at the moment. Specific techniques or software packages may be helpful in landing first jobs, but those techniques and packages may soon be replaced by something newer and trendier. Understanding the ways in which quantitative models really work, however, is a management level skill that is unlikely to go out of style. This course is part of the Business Principles and Entrepreneurial Thought XSeries
Target
- Anyone interested in good decision-making using data
- Students with a bachelor’s degree considering graduate studies in business
Sector
- Business and analytics
Area
- Data analysis and statistics applying to business decision-making
Learning outcomes
- Variability in the real world and implications for decision making
- Data types and data quality with appropriate visualizations
- Apply data analysis to managerial decisions, especially in start-ups
- Making effective decisions from no data to big data (what should we collect and then what do we do with all this data?)
Learning content
- understanding variation
- assessing risks
- identifying sources of variability.
Approach/method
Online
Duration
4 – 6 hours per week
Assessment
No
Certification
Yes
Cost
Free
Date
Always available
Location
Online
Website