Course Description
This course gives intensive instruction in project management fundamentals across the entire project lifecycle. It provides proven strategies and practical tools for planning, scheduling, executing, and controlling a variety of projects. It also offers detailed and sophisticated instruction in the critical areas of scheduling key events, controlling costs, and managing risks.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of project managers across the project lifecycle
- Define and develop the foundations of a project management plan, including project requirements, work breakdown structure, schedule, resources, and other cost estimates
- Describe project risk identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation strategies
- Control the project by managing 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
Day One: Introduction to Project Management
- Definition of a Project
- Definition of Project Management
- The Project Constraints
- Influences on a Project
- Organizational Structures and Their Influence on Projects
Day Two: Project Initiation
- Initiating a Project
- Project Selection and Tools
- The Right Start
- Stakeholders
- Inherent Risk
- Assessing Needs
- Formulating Good Objectives
- Requirements and Specifications
- Requirements Tools and Alignment
- Project Charter
- Project Requirements Document
- From Initiation to Planning
Day Three: Project Planning
- Planning’s Foundation: Scope and Requirements
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Resource Planning and Tools
- Good Estimating, Tools, and Practices
- Schedule Planning Common Tools
- Network Diagramming
- Critical Path
- Determining Float
- Lag and Lead
- Gantt Charts
- Ways to Speed Up Schedules
- Cost Planning
- Baseline Costs Plus Reserve
- Resource Planning and Tools
- Communication Planning and other Essential Planning Processes
- Elements of a Project Management Plan
Day Four - Scheduling and The Baseline
- Network scheduling
- Validating schedules
- Arrow diagrams and precedence diagrams
- Basic scheduling and network calculations
- Advanced precedence relationships and the critical path
- Alternative constraints
- Gantt and milestone charts
- Establishing baselines
- Understanding types of baselines
- Time-phased distribution of costs
- Cumulative cost curves
Day Five - Project Implementation
- Project Control Considerations
- Responsibilities in Project Control
- Tools and Techniques for Project Control
- Project Monitoring Processes
- Managing the Triple Constraint
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Schedule and Cost Variance
- Interpreting EVM Calculations
- Percent Complete and Percent Spent
- Change Control and Change Management
- Configuration Management