Course Content (2 days - 2 Participants)
- Introduction to Project Management
- Introduction to Project Management
- Definition of a project
- Definition of project management
- Project constraints
- Project life cycle
- Project Management Knowledge and Focus Areas
- Project manager roles and responsibilities
- Project Initiation
- Influences on a project
- Stakeholder identification and analysis
- Understanding roles of senior management
- Project selection
- Assess business needs and opportunities
- Qualitative factors
- Quantitative tools (benefit-cost ratio (BCR), present value, net present value, and payback period)
- Project charter
- Stakeholder Register
- Project Planning
- Core project team
- Collect requirements
- Scope management
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Key WBS terms
- WBS models: graphical and indented
- Building a WBS
- WBS dictionary
- Translating the WBS into the schedule
- Estimating
- Estimating techniques (PERT, three-point, Parametric, Analogous)
- Schedule planning and common tools
- Network diagramming (estimating activity duration, forward and backward pass, float, critical path)
- Gantt charts
- Milestones
- Cost planning
- Estimates
- Cost budgeting
- Resource planning and tools
- Roles and responsibilities matrix
- Resource loading table
- Resource loading histogram
- Communication and Quality Planning
- Risk management planning
- Definition of risk
- Risk management plan
- Risk response strategies
- Procurement planning
- Contract types
- Project Implementation
- Execution, Monitoring and Controlling
- Monitoring project performance
- Earned value (definition, purpose, terminology, calculations, interpreting variances)
- Assessing project status
- Ways to speed up schedules
- Performance Reporting
- Corrective actions
- Managing change
- Managing risk
- Quality assurance
- Developing the project team
- Stakeholder expectations
- Scope validation and customer acceptance
- Project Closure
- Guidelines for project closeout
- Project closeout issues
- Project team
- Client/customer
- Contract and administrative closure
- Lessons learned
- Performance Appraisal
