Course Content
Introduction
- Project management basics
- Project management principles
- Project roles: Sponsor, Project Manager, User PM, Team Leader, etc.
- Organizing for effective project management
- Developing the project objectives and scope
- Project planning: Developing the task and cost baseline
- Budget Planning
- Task Analysis
- Risk management, Estimating, Planning
- Getting resource commitments
- Tracking and reporting progress
The Project Life Cycle
- Project life cycle
- Project versus product life cycle
- Project phases
- The planning and control cycle
- Project Initiation
- Planning a Project
- Discussing the elements of a successful project
Control and Analysis
- Project Definition, scoping, Project Definition Workshops
- Managing project control information
- Dividing large projects into Releases
- Defining objectives, critical success factors, assumptions, constraints and deliverablesSupporting plans
- Measuring your accomplishment
- The earned value concept
- Trend analysis
- Project control
- Workflow Management
- Project Cost Analysis
- Multiple Project Management
- Prioritization Technique
- Tracking and Controlling
- Scheduling Tools
- Optimization Control
- Quality Management
- Project Assurance
- Change and Issue management
- Managing quality: inspections, simulations, metrics, causal analysis, etc.
- Standards and Compliance
Team Building
- Fundamentals of Team Building
- Resource Analysis
- Human factors in project management
- Managing limited organizational resources
- Communication Techniques
- Skill Management
- Project Risks
- Project Closeout
- Cultural Issues and Alignment
Automation Tools and Trends
- Tools and Products
- Future Trends
- Characteristics of the successful project manager
- Project management automated and administrative support
- Overview of Project Management Tools
Project Completion, Lessons Learned reviews
- Participants consider how they can improve their own projects by applying what has been covered in the course
- Planning and execution considerations
- Resource reassignment plan
- Hand-off of open items
- Closeout of contractual agreements
- Completion of project documents and archiving
- Stakeholder Sign-off
- Post-mortem
