Project Management

This course teaches participants the fundamentals of project management. You will learn how to manage time and costs, implement quality measures, handle project risks, acquire and motivate team members and communicate effectively.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course trainees will be able to:

• Identify the critical functions, skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager
• Define the project scope
• Write a project charter
• Develop a task list
• Assign resources and estimate resource costs
• Compute a project's estimate at completion (EAC)
• Design a risk management plan
• Establish baselines and monitor progress
• Compute the variance at completion (VAC)
• Write closeout reports and terminate a project

Course Outline

• Key Concepts
  • What is a Project?
  • What is Project Management?
  • What is a Project Manager?
  • About the Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • About the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK)
  • The Five Process Groups
  • The Nine Knowledge Areas
  • The Triple Constraint
• Project Initiation
  • Identifying Your Stakeholders
  • Assessing Needs and Wants
  • Setting a SMART Project Goal
  • Creating Requirements and Deliverables
  • Creating a Statement of Work
  • Completing the Project Planning Worksheet
  • Completing the Project Charter
• Planning
  • Managing Expectations
  • Creating a Task List
  • Estimating Time
  • Estimating Resources
  • Estimating Costs
  • Building the Work Breakdown Structure
  • Creating the Schedule
  • Creating a Risk Management Plan
  • Creating a Communication Plan
• Planning Tools
  • The Gantt Chart
  • The Network Diagram
  • Using a RACI Chart
  • Introduction to Microsoft Project
  Executing the Project
  • Establishing Baselines
  • Monitoring Project Progress
  • Triple Constraint Reduction Methods
• Maintaining and Controlling the Project
  • Making the Most of Status Updates
  • Managing Change
  • Monitoring Risks
• Closing Out
  • Preparing for Closeout
  • Celebrating Successes
  • Learning from Project Challenges
  • Scope Verification
  • A Final To-Do List

What's Included

• Certificate of Course Completion
• Training Manual
• FREE Class Repeat

All classes are currently live and online.

Trainees have the option to repeat their training in-person (for FREE) after CV-19.