Project Management Fundamentals & Best Practices
3 days – 21 PDU’s

 

Overview

The three-day Project Management Fundamentals course is a hands-on overview of setting project objectives (Initiating) then creating a project plan, to formally validate the feasibility of those objectives. The plan is then "executed" and teams report status and determine how to get the inevitably "trouble" project back on track.

This course allows time for fitting the real-life issues of leadership and communication in between the cracks of technical project management. The course follows adult learning principles, balancing instructor-led lectures and discussions with hands-on exercises and case studies.
Day One focuses on Project Initiation, understanding what the client wants and clarifying project deliverables. Day Two covers creating a plan to produce the deliverables within the constraints of time and available resources.   Day Three completes building the project plan and offers practical exercises for team building, communication, leadership and project control.
Meeting Top-Down mandates with a crisp Bottom-Up plan forms the basis of understanding the truth about what is going to happen with a project, avoiding potential disasters, padded estimates and other untruths inexperienced project managers engage in to survive their jobs.

 

Audience

• Beginning or Intermediate Project Managers and Business Analysts
• PMI exam candidates
• Management Executives
• Consultants
• Entrepeneurs

Learning Objectives

• Upon completing this course, learners will be able to:
• Define Project Management and understand the value of a phased approach
• Understand how to show the Project  Constraints to communicate project priorities
• Know how to identify stakeholders and understand their priorities
• Use a project objective statement to keep focus on objectives
• Use a Project Charter to validate what management expects the project to accomplish
• Create and interpret a Work Breakdown Structure, Network Chart, Bar Chart and Resource Histogram
• Understand the appropriate use of scheduling tools  (“Everything you need to know before you use MS Project”)
• Utilize simple risk identification and mitigation tools
• Use all the above data-driven tools to validate that a project plan meets project charter objectives

Class Materials

Each learner will receive a Best Practices Job-Aid and a copy of the Project Management Fundamentals Workbook that provides the exercises and case studies used and referenced throughout the class.

Pre-requisites

• None

Skill level

• Basic

 

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