Course duration
- 3 days
Course Benefits
- Learn core Project Management Concepts
- Learn how Social Styles impact Project Management
- Learn to define and initiate a project
- Learn to define a project plan, scope statement and identify deliverables
- Learn to use a Work Breakdown Structure
- Learn to estimate task duration and costs
- Learn to schedule tasks and estimate resource requirements
- Learn to acquire and assign resources to the project plan
- Learn to implement quality and change control mechanisms
- Learn to manage and respond to risk
- Learn to execute the project plan and track progress
- Learn to monitor and control project progress
- Learn how to close a project successfully
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Workshop Logistics
- Workshop Materials
- How to Get the Most Out of This Workshop
- Workshop Objectives
- Workshop Contents
- Project Management Concepts
- Project Management in the Enterprise Environment
- Programs
- Projects and Sub-Projects
- Portfolios
- Project Management Offices (PMOs)
- So What is Project Management?
- Project Management Activities
- The Project Management Process
- Project Phases in Project Management
- Project Life Cycle (PLC)
- Rolling Wave Planning
- What Defines a Successful Project?
- The Project Management Triangle
- Critical Success Factors
- The Project Manager's Skills and Knowledge
- The Project Manager's Role
- The Project Participants
- The Project Sponsor
- The Stakeholders
- The Project Team
- The Project Environment
- Culture and Style
- Structure
- Project Management System
- The People Side of Project Management
- The People Side of Project Management
- The People Side
- The Social Style Model™
- Behavioral Dimensions
- Assertiveness
- Responsiveness
- The Social Style
- Social Style Characteristics
- Social Style Strengths and Challenges
- Social Style and Backup Behavior
- Versatility
- Working with Others
- Analytical Social Style
- Driving Social Style
- Expressive Social Style
- Amiable Social Style
- Building on Your Strengths
- Classification Ethics
- The Communication Process
- Virtual Communications
- Initiating the Project
- Project Initiation
- Defining Need
- Defining Feasibility
- Demonstrating Need and Feasibility
- Project Stakeholder Management
- Identify Stakeholders
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Charter
- Project Description
- Project Purpose
- Project Objectives
- Project Requirements
- Triangle Flexibility
- Planning the Project
- Planning the Project
- Why Do You Plan?
- Developing the Project Management Plan
- Components of the Project Management Plan
- Project Scope
- Project Scope Statement
- Project Deliverables
- Exclusions
- Constraints
- Assumptions
- Approach
- Plan Procurement Management
- Characteristics of an Effective Project Plan
- The Investment of Planning
- Decomposition Using a Work Breakdown Structure
- Project Decomposition
- Benefits of Decomposition
- Decomposition Using a Work Breakdown Structure
- Benefits of the Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure Hierarchy
- Work Breakdown Structure Format
- Work Package
- Work Breakdown Structure Template
- Work Breakdown Structure Graphic Conventions
- Work Breakdown Structure Diagramming Rules
- Demonstration: Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure List Conventions
- Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary
- Activity Definition
- Activities
- Skills Matrix
- Scope Baseline
- Estimating
- Estimating Accuracy
- Effort, Duration, and Cost
- Effort vs Duration
- Methods for Estimating Effort
- Weighted Average
- Expert Judgment, Delphi, and Parametric Estimating
- Analogous and Computerized Tools
- Analogous Estimating
- Computerized Tools
- Function Point Estimating
- Function Point Analysis
- Estimating Variables
- Estimating Cost
- Cost Budgeting
- Cost Baseline
- Sequencing and Scheduling
- Sequencing and Scheduling
- Determining Sequence and Schedule
- Project Schedule Network Diagram
- Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
- Precedence Diagramming
- Dependencies
- Milestones
- Producing the Network Diagram
- Precedence Logic
- Estimating Activity Resources
- Estimating Activity Duration
- Lag
- Lead
- Apply the Calendar
- Critical Path Method
- Critical Path
- Determine the Critical Path — Forward Pass
- Calculating Float — Backward Pass
- Gantt and Bar Charts
- Time/Cost Trade-Off
- Organizing and Acquiring Staff
- Resource Planning
- Acquire the Project Team
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- Constraints
- Resource Histograms
- Resource Leveling
- Develop the Project Team
- Team Website
- Control Plans
- Planning for Control
- Quality Management Plan
- Quality Planning
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Communications Management Plan
- Developing the Communication Plan
- Examples of Communication Plans
- Change Control
- Reasons for Change
- A Typical Change Control Procedure
- Example of a Change Request Form
- Risk Management
- Risk Management
- What is Risk?
- Elements of Risk Management
- Risk Management Planning
- Risk Identification
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Risk Response Planning
- Responses for Negative Risk; ie Threats
- Responses for Positive Risk; ie Opportunities
- The Risk Register
- Contingencies and Reserves
- Risk Management Method
- Executing the Project
- Project Execution
- Guidelines for Executing a Project Phase
- Tools and Techniques for Executing the Project Plan
- Project Kickoff
- Work Results
- Tracking Progress via Status Reports
- Assessing Project Status via Status Meetings
- Pitfalls of Project Execution
- Monitoring and Controlling the Project
- Project Control
- Key Control Activities
- Planning Versus Monitoring and Controlling
- Prerequisites for Effective Monitoring and Controlling
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting
- Performance Reports
- Current State Report
- Original Baseline Report
- Trend Report
- Narrative Overview Report
- Trend Analysis
- Interpreting Trends
- Example of Trend Analysis
- Questions to Ask Yourself
- Taking Corrective Action
- To Control Quality
- To Shorten the Project Duration (Time)
- To Reduce Costs
- To Accommodate Increasing Scope
- To Monitor Risks
- Tracking and Logging Changes
- Requested Modifications
- Corrective Actions
- Example Change Log Report
- Guidelines for Monitoring and Controlling a Project Phase
- Pitfalls to Project Control
- Closing the Project
- Closing
- Administrative Closure Activities
- Lessons Learned
- Example Closeout Report
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.