Introduction to Project Management Training
Course Outline
This introduction to project management training course provides you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to successfully lead a project from beginning to end. You will gain hands-on project experience through a simulated project case study.
Introduction to Project Management Training Benefits
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Through a simulated case study, you will:
- Leverage key project management concepts.
- Lead a project from beginning to end.
- Motivate and lead your project team.
- Implement effective project management processes.
- Develop the leadership skills needed for successfully planning, managing, and delivering projects of any size and scope.
- Test your knowledge in the end-of-course exam.
- Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.
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Prerequisites
None.
Intro to Project Management Instructor-Led Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Project Management
- Benefits and value of project management|
- Communication as the key to project success
- Defining a project
- Defining projects, programs, and portfolio management
- The project management process
- The phases of project management
Activity: The Way Many Projects Start – Chaos
Module 2: Initiating a Project
- Defining the initiation phase
- Linking strategic value to the project
- Business case overview
- Issue tracking
- Assumptions
- Defining the objective of a project
- Creating the objective statement (the Five “W” questions)
- Translating the statement into deliverables
Activity: Building an Objective Statement and Deliverables List
- Project Charters and other initiating activities
- Strategic considerations
Module 3: Planning the Project
What a project plan is
- The narrative planning document
- Outline of content
Stakeholders
- Defining stakeholders
- How they contribute to the development of a project plan
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder engagement plan
- Stakeholder communication plan
Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Defining the WBS
- How the WBS is developed
Activity: Build the WBS for Class Project
Creating the Project Schedule
- Identify activities
- Estimate activities
- Do Now Activity: Determine Duration of Project Activities
- Sequencing activities
Activity: Sequence Project Activities (create network diagram)
- Resourcing the schedule (Identify, Allocate, Optimize)
- Finalize schedule (Determine project duration, Understand Critical Path, Refining the project to meet objectives and constraints)
Module 4: Project Risk Management
- Define risk management
- Risk identification
- Analyze probability and impacts
- Risk registers
- Plan risk responses
Activity: Develop Risk Register for Class Project
- Contingency plans
- Early warning signs
Module 5: Baselining the Plan
Change control
- Process defined
- Scaling process to fit the project
Project team guidelines
- Status meetings
- Schedule updates
- Issue and risk tracking and reporting
Other considerations
- Quality management plan
- Project procurement plan
- Getting approval to execute a plan
Activity: Team Review of Completed Project Plan
Module 6: Executing the Plan
- Defining executing/monitoring and controlling processes
- The management processes
- How to monitor and control key plan elements
- Project status reports
- Analyzing data against a baseline to determine progress
- Taking corrective action to meet project constraints
Activity: Review Project Status Report and Schedule
Module 7: Project Closure
- Determining if a project is ready to close
- Transfer of project deliverable(s) to operational control
- Determining if project objectives and business value have been attained
- Conducting lessons-learned review
- Appropriate celebrations
- Building project management capabilities in organizations
Activity: Course Review and Communication of Learnings
- choosing a selection results in a full page refresh