Duration: 2 days – 14 hrs
Overview
Gain a thorough understanding of how to practically apply project management concepts that will equip you to effectively and successfully define, plan, manage, and close out projects. Through informative content, hands-on activities, class discussions, and a threaded case study, you will explore the tools, techniques, and working practices associated with successful project management. This comprehensive foundational course focuses on the project management principles aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and many of the GAO guides.
Objectives
- Define project management key terms and fundamental concepts
- Define the project and produce a project charter
- Review project management plan elements and project documents
- Select a development approach
- Develop a communications management plan based on stakeholder’s needs
- Define detailed scope using a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Determine project estimates
- Create a realistic, defensible project schedule
- Develop a project budget
- Create a project risk register
- Plan for project change
- Establish and obtain acceptance for project baselines
- Manage and communicate project performance results
- Perform closing processes
Audience
- Project Manager
- Executives
- Successors
Pre- requisites
- none
Course Content
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
Defining the Project
- Starting the Project
- Project Charter
- Exercise: Create a Project Charter
- Team Charter
Project Planning Overview
- Project Planning Introduction
- The Project Management Plan (PMP)
- Development Approaches
- Exercise: Choosing Development Approaches
Stakeholders and Communications Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Exercise: Develop a Stakeholder Register
- Communications
- Planning Project Communications
- Exercise: Develop a Communications Matrix
Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
- Progressively Elaborating Scope
- Relationship between Scope and Work
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Exercise: Develop a WBS
- Scope Management Plan
Project Estimating
- Project Estimating
- Estimating Methods
- Estimating Best Practices
- Documenting and Validating Estimates
- Exercise: Project Estimating
Developing the Initial Project Schedule
- Project Schedules
- Step 1: Determine Activities and Milestones
- Step 2: Sequence the Activities and Milestones
- Step 3: Assign Resources
- Step 4: Estimate Effort and Duration
- Step 5: Develop the Schedule and Identify the Critical Path
- Step 6: Portray the Schedule
- Exercise: Reviewing a Project Schedule
- Schedule Management Plan
Developing the Project Budget
- The Project Budget
- Estimating Project Costs
- Communicating the Project Budget
- Exercise: Identifying Cost Categories
- Cost Management Plan
Planning for Risk
- Project Risk
- Risk Management
- Step 1: Plan for Risk
- Step 2: Identify Risks
- Step 3: Assess and Rank Risks
- Step 4: Determine Appropriate Responses
- Step 5: Update Impacted Plan Components
Project Baselines and Change Control
- Project Baselines
- Project Change
- Change Management Plan
Managing the Project
- What is Managing?
- Obtain Status Information
- Compare Actual Results with Baselined Plan
- Identify Variance
- Analyze Variance and Forecast Future Results
- Record Actual Results
- Are the Results Acceptable?
- Determining Corrective Action
- Create a Corrective Action Plan
- Update the Project Plan
- Communicate Project Status
- Manage Change
- Exercise: Determining Project Performance
The Importance of Closing
- What Is Closing?
- Lessons Learned
- Course Conclusion
- Exercise: Identifying Lessons Learned
