Course Description:
This course provides an overview of how to measure and analyze several aspects of managing projects. This course includes slides as well as a simple Monte Carlo spreadsheet that can be used to measure projects as well as their rate of cancellation. If you have not yet purchased or enrolled in this course, please click here.
Course Syllabus
Objective
Learn how some common measurement fallacies could be impacting your projects as well as how advanced statistical methods can be used to improve how you manage and forecast the success of your projects.
Prerequisites
None
Format
- Live 2 Hour Online Webinar
- 1 Online Review Quiz
Materials Provided
- Monte Carlo Tool and Spreadsheets for Measuring the Value of Projects
- PDF copy of PowerPoint slides
Recommended Next Courses
Calibration, Creating Simulations in Excel Basic and Intermediate, Making Decisions Under Uncertainty, Measurement Methods in Excel Basic and Intermediate
Douglas Hubbard is the inventor of the Applied Information Economics (AIE) method and founder of Hubbard Decision Research (HDR). He is the author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It, Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities and How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Wiley, 2016). He has sold over 170,000 copies of his books in eight different languages. One of his books is required reading for the Society of Actuaries exam prep. In addition to his books, Mr. Hubbard has been published in several periodicals including Nature, The IBM Journal of Research and Development, OR/MS Today, Analytics, CIO, Information Week, and Architecture Boston.
Please download the following spreadsheets and slide deck to follow along in the course examples and to answer review questions.