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Alternative types of value - extract from Lean Project Management Course

This lecture is part of the Lean Project Management course and describes different types of value

Alternative types of value and emotion - extract from Lean Project Management

This lecture, from the Lean Project Management course, explores the link between value and emotions

Cost Benefit Analysis

Discusses the importance of Cost Benefit Analysis to financial decision making, and talks through the four key steps in creating your own CBA

Course summary

This lecture summarises the key learning points for the Project Financial Appraisal Using Net Present Value (NPV) course

Dirección de operaciones (Operations management)

• Comprender la producción como proceso

Draw Earned Value

Draw the cost

Draw to the budget

How to calculate Net Present Value for a project

This lecture will explain how to calculate Present Value from Future Value for both individual values and a series of future cash flows, without using a spreadsheet function

How to deal with inflation

This lecture deals with the common question of how inflation should be factored into future cashflows

Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Return on Investment (ROI)

This lecture describes what is meant by Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Return On Investment (ROI) and what ROI can be misleading for the same reasons as break-even analysis

Introduction to Project Financial Appraisal Using Net Present Value (NPV)

This lecture introduces the Project Financial Appraisal Using Net Present Value (NPV) course and ends with a question to be answered in the quiz that follows it

Introduction to Tracking Progress Using EVA

Jargon buster for professional examination students

Making Forecasts (Earned Value Analysis)

Project Management Skills #1 - Financial Appraisal with NPV

How to decide whether your project is worth doing from a financial perspectiveIf a project costs $1

Project Management Skills #2 - Tracking Progress Using EVA

How to use Earned Value Analysis to track progress and communicate it clearly with one picture

After completing this course, you will be able to create a single diagram for your project or program that describes:

Performance against schedule
Actual cost versus budget
Outlook for the remainder of the project
Instead of presenting your sponsor and steering committee with a complicated mixture of milestone charts, spreadsheets, Gantt's and PERT's, you can give them one single picture whose meaning is understood in seconds

Smooth the budget

Summary of Tracking Progress Using EVA

Understanding Earned Value

Using a spreadsheet to calculate project Net Present Value

This lecture begins with a recap of how to calculate the Net Present Value step-by-step and then goes on to explain how to calculate it using a spreadsheet function

What Interest Rate to use? ... and other assumption

This lecture discusses the appropriate interest rate to use for the NPV calculation and introduces the concept of Weighted Average Cost of Capital

What's tomorrow's money worth today?

This lecture introduces the core concept that money in future years (Future Value) is less than it's value today (Present Value)

Les fondamentaux de la gestion de projet (Project management fundamental)

La gestion de projet est une compétence essentielle qui peut avoir un impact considérable sur votre performance et votre réussite professionnelle

Fundamentals of project management

Project management is an essential skill that can have a huge impact on your performance and career success