In this course, author and PMP Bob McGannon teaches you how to understand team members, build a strong team from your talent pool, shape their work, and maximize success.
Along the way, discover how to negotiate for key resources, appreciate and maximize individual working styles, use emotional intelligence to add a personal approach to your management style, and resolve conflict.
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Managing Technical Teams
In this course, Bob McGannon outlines the critical elements for successfully managing a technical team. Since you are dealing with highly skilled workers, it is important for you to focus on WHAT needs to be accomplished, rather than HOW to accomplish goals. Other critical skills include knowing your role and what decisions to make, balancing the needs of your stakeholders and customers while allowing for creativity within your team, supporting and rewarding differing creative styles, and much more. This course also includes a model for dividing, tracking, and sharing the accomplishments of your team.
Project Management: Technical Projects
Technical projects have their own unique set of needs and challenges. New technology must be researched, downtime must be kept to a minimum, and the organization must be helped to adapt to the change. Learn how to effectively manage technical projects of any size with these tips from project management expert Bob McGannon. He’ll go over specific approaches to mitigate the risks and challenges common to technology projects. He’ll walk through case studies to bring the concepts to life. Then he’ll propose some specific challenges (including conflicts with stakeholders or vendors) for you to explore. Compare your solutions with Bob’s recommendations to see how your project management skills compare.