Course Description
This course is for individuals on project teams who may not necessarily manage the cost control (earned value) or team building aspects of a project. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to apply basic project management skills, concepts, and techniques to manage small projects within their organizations.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of project team members across the project lifecycle
- Define and develop the foundations of a project management plan, including the project requirements document, work breakdown structure, schedule, and other resources
- Assist with the management and control of the project against the baseline
- Close out a project effectively
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Executives
- Project Manager
- Anyone who is interested in the field
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One
- Definition of a project
- Definition of project management
- Project constraints
- Project life cycle
- Project management process groups
- Roles and responsibilities of the project manager
- Project manager skills
Section Two
- Stakeholder identification
- Influences on a project
- Understanding the roles of senior management
- Project charter
- Needs assessment
- SMART objectives
- Requirements and specifications
- Functional and technical requirements
Section Three
- Requirements documents
- Project requirements document
- Core team
- Scope management
- The work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Estimating practices
- Estimating techniques
- Schedule planning
- Scheduling tools (network diagram, Gantt chart, milestones chart)
- The forward pass, backward pass, total float and critical path
- Cumulative cost curve
- Resource planning and tools (responsibility matrix, resource Gantt chart)
- Risk management planning
- Other planning processes: quality, communication, and procurement
- Elements of a project management plan
- Project Baselines
Section Four
- The forward pass, backward pass, total float and critical path
- Cumulative cost curve
- Resource planning and tools (responsibility matrix, resource Gantt chart)
- Risk management planning
- Other planning processes: quality, communication, and procurement
- Elements of a project management plan
- Project Baselines
- Assessing project performance
- Monitoring project performance
- Project evaluation
Section Five
- Managing change
- Configuration management
- Managing risk
- Project teams
- Scope verification and customer acceptance
- Stakeholder expectations
- Guidelines for project closeout
- Procurement and project or phase closure