IT Project Management Courses & Blog

In this video, we first learn how to create a data table leveraging standard spreadsheet data. From there, this data table will be used to build out our pivot tables. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management How to Manage a Largt IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we'll look at what is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and why it is used. We'll also review a sample WBS in a hierarchical and spreadsheet format. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management How to Manage a Large IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we will discuss how to take the estimations that you have gathered during the estimation process and plot them onto the IT Project Budget. You will understand the difference between the estimation and budget numbers and how the re-forecasting process works. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management How to Manage a Largt IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we define what the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) function is and what it is used for. Then, we get into an example of how to use this function in MS Excel. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management How to Manage a Largt IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss how to gain access to both JIRA and Confluence so that you can practice with these products on your own. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management Managing a Large IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss what exactly is a project manager and go over some of their main responsibilities. There are many aspects to project management but I've highlighted the most critical aspects in this video. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we'll discuss the situation when you're given an unreasonable project timeline when you're first assigned to a project. We'll discuss methods to raise risk based on your past experience or feedback from your implementation team. Negotiating with the project steering committee/stakeholders will be another topic of this video. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management Managing a Large IT Project - https://www.danriverapmp.com/managing-a-large-it-project IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss how project managers can evaluate their current position in their careers. Also, we'll look at how project managers can plan to achieve their future goals. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this week's video, we discuss how you can present status to your management leveraging 1 PowerPoint slide. The main components are accomplishments, next actions, overall project status, upcoming milestones, financial status, risks, and issues. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss the factors that are making you feel as if you're overworked and feeling overwhelmed. Understand what's making you overworked first before approaching your management so, together, you can create a plan to help you feel less overworked. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In today's video, we discuss how a Software Developer can start to transition into the Project Management field. This video is especially useful to Software Developers who are thinking about making the transition into Project Management. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss creating a Burndown Chart leveraging sprint performance data. You'll get a good understanding on how to use charting leveraging data in your spreadsheet. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss how you can leverage the skillsets you use as a Project Manager and apply those to your personal life. You keep your projects organized and on track so why not apply the same concept to your personal life? REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we'll discuss how to insert an MS Excel worksheet into your MS PowerPoint presentation. We'll also see how you can do this in a way that if you make edits to the MS Excel sheet, these changes will automatically reflect in MS Power Point. The example we will see if from a RACI chart that is created in MS Excel but we want to present in MS Power Point. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: - IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management - IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success - MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager - Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss when you've reached your low point where you want to quit your project management job. We discuss what you need to consider before making this potentially life-changing decision. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss how to reference multiple worksheets in MS Excel. Our example is to develop a summarized worksheet that has employee total hours assigned in a year as well as the total associated costs. This worksheet is dependent on two other worksheets and we see how to reference these sheets easily by cell referencing across different worksheets. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

Please find the link to the course here - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management With over 5 hours of content, this is the most comprehensive course on how to manage a million-dollar software project budget.    Please note that this course is not about construction budget management. Gain hands-on knowledge in all the areas of managing a large project budget - from business case creation through financially closing out your project. Information gathered is from specific past job experience - this is not a theory course but a course to teach you specific step-by-step procedures to manage your project budget. Gain real-world knowledge of project budget management as we work through a sample project with real implications.  The sample project deals with leveraging a software development vendor to build our organization's new application on the web. Your project management toolkit is not complete without detailed knowledge of how to manage project finances.  This online training course will give you the background to complete your toolkit. Bonuses - Sections end with a "resources" area so that you can download bonus materials and templates based on the content of that section.

In this lecture, we discuss the usefulness of the AVERAGEIF function in MS Excel. We'll discuss from the context of a program's Cost Performance Index (CPI) and evaluate the average of the program's CPI statistics to determine if the program is in trouble. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

There are so many tasks that Project Managers need to deal with during the day that span different contexts such as managing risks, managing communications, and continuing to hold people accountable for tasks. In the below video, we go over how you can create an efficient To-Do list in MS Excel that can help you keep your to-do list organized and reduce stress. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

MS Excel provides a nifty SLN function to determine depreciation leveraging the straight-line method. In the below example, this function is demonstrated in a laptop purchase scenario... REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we explore the different types of interviews you will experience on your journey toward getting a job as an IT Project Manager. This information is valid for both experienced as well as new Project Managers. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

As Project Managers, we sometimes work with plain delimited files from external systems such as SAP for employee time tracking. The below lecture discusses how to work with delimited files exported to MS Excel and how to convert them to tables. This is especially useful if you eventually want to leverage this data in a Pivot Table. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we learn about how to estimate External Labor on your IT Project. We will go over what situations to consider as this method will be different than estimating internal labor for your project. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss how to estimate internal labor. Internal Labor represents the labor expenses for employees that pertain to the Organization. This does not include contractors or other vendors working with the Organization. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers

In this video, we discuss the main things to focus on when you have been scheduled for an interview within the next 24 hours. I developed this video as I've experienced situations in the past where this has come up due to the hiring manager looking to make a quick decision so that they can staff their projects as quickly as possible. REGISTER ON MY WEBSITE – https://www.DanRiveraPMP.com FREE PM TEMPLATES! COURSE DISCOUNTS PLEASE ALSO SEE MY ONLINE COURSES BELOW: IT Project Budget and Cost Management - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-budget-and-cost-management IT Project Manager Interview Success - https://www.danriverapmp.com/it-project-manager-interview-success MS Excel for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/ms-excel-for-project-manager Time Management for Project Managers - https://www.danriverapmp.com/time-management-for-project-managers