Duration: 5 days – 40 hrs
Overview
This comprehensive 5-day training course is designed to provide participants with a thorough understanding of project management principles and equip them with the practical skills to effectively define, plan, manage, and close out projects. Through a combination of informative content, hands-on activities, class discussions, and a threaded case study, participants will explore the tools, techniques, and working practices associated with successful project management. The course is aligned with the project management principles outlined in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and various GAO guides.
Objectives
- Define key project management terms and fundamental concepts.
- Produce a project charter to establish project objectives and scope.
- Review project management plan elements and related project documents.
- Select an appropriate development approach for a project.
- Develop a communications management plan based on stakeholder needs.
- Define detailed scope using a work breakdown structure (WBS).
- Determine project estimates and document them effectively.
- Create a realistic and defensible project schedule.
- Develop a project budget and effectively communicate it.
- Create a project risk register and plan for project changes.
- Establish and obtain acceptance for project baselines.
- Manage and communicate project performance results.
- Perform closing processes to wrap up a project.
Audience
- Project Managers
- Executives
- Successors
- Prerequisites:
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Pre- requisites
- none
Course Content
Day 1: Introduction to Project Management
- What Is a Project?
- What Is Project Management?
- Programs, Portfolios, and Operations
- Fundamental Concepts in Project Management
- Responsibilities of the Project Manager
Day 2: Defining the Project
- Starting the Project
- Project Charter
- Exercise: Create a Project Charter
- Team Charter
Day 3: Project Planning Overview
- Project Planning Introduction
- The Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Development Approaches
- Exercise: Choosing Development Approaches
Day 4: Stakeholders and Communications Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Exercise: Develop a Stakeholder Register
- Communications
- Planning Project Communications
- Exercise: Develop a Communications Matrix
Day 5: Developing the Work Breakdown Structure, Project Estimating, Schedule Development, Budgeting, Risk Planning, Project Baselines, Change Control, Managing the Project, and Closing
- Developing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Project Estimating
- Developing the Initial Project Schedule
- Developing the Project Budget
- Planning for Risk
- Project Baselines and Change Control
- Managing the Project
- The Importance of Closing
- Lessons Learned
- Exercise: Identifying Lessons Learned
- Closing and Remarks
