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Introduction to Project Management Training
2 DAY COURSE

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Course Outline

This introduction to project management training course provides you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to successfully lead a project from beginning to end. You will gain hands-on project experience through a simulated project case study.

Introduction to Project Management Training Benefits

  • Through a simulated case study, you will:

    • Leverage key project management concepts.
    • Lead a project from beginning to end.
    • Motivate and lead your project team.
    • Implement effective project management processes.
    • Develop the leadership skills needed for successfully planning, managing, and delivering projects of any size and scope.
    • Test your knowledge in the end-of-course exam.
    • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

  • Prerequisites

    None.

Intro to Project Management Instructor-Led Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management

  • Benefits and value of project management|
  • Communication as the key to project success
  • Defining a project
  • Defining projects, programs, and portfolio management
  • The project management process
  • The phases of project management

Activity: The Way Many Projects Start – Chaos

Module 2: Initiating a Project

  • Defining the initiation phase  
  • Linking strategic value to the project  
  • Business case overview  
  • Issue tracking  
  • Assumptions  
  • Defining the objective of a project  
  • Creating the objective statement (the Five “W” questions)  
  • Translating the statement into deliverables  

Activity: Building an Objective Statement and Deliverables List  

  • Project Charters and other initiating activities  
  • Strategic considerations   

Module 3: Planning the Project

What a project plan is  

  • The narrative planning document  
  • Outline of content  

Stakeholders   

  • Defining stakeholders  
  • How they contribute to the development of a project plan  
  • Stakeholder analysis  
  • Stakeholder engagement plan  
  • Stakeholder communication plan  

Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)   

  • Defining the WBS  
  • How the WBS is developed  

Activity: Build the WBS for Class Project  

Creating the Project Schedule  

  • Identify activities  
  • Estimate activities  
  • Do Now Activity: Determine Duration of Project Activities  
  • Sequencing activities  

Activity: Sequence Project Activities (create network diagram)  

  • Resourcing the schedule (Identify, Allocate, Optimize)  
  • Finalize schedule (Determine project duration, Understand Critical Path, Refining the project to meet objectives and constraints)  

Module 4: Project Risk Management

  • Define risk management  
  • Risk identification  
  • Analyze probability and impacts  
  • Risk registers  
  • Plan risk responses  

Activity: Develop Risk Register for Class Project  

  • Contingency plans  
  • Early warning signs  

Module 5: Baselining the Plan

Change control  

  • Process defined  
  • Scaling process to fit the project  

Project team guidelines  

  • Status meetings  
  • Schedule updates  
  • Issue and risk tracking and reporting  

Other considerations  

  • Quality management plan  
  • Project procurement plan  
  • Getting approval to execute a plan  

Activity: Team Review of Completed Project Plan  

Module 6: Executing the Plan

  • Defining executing/monitoring and controlling processes  
  • The management processes  
  • How to monitor and control key plan elements  
  • Project status reports  
  • Analyzing data against a baseline to determine progress  
  • Taking corrective action to meet project constraints  

Activity: Review Project Status Report and Schedule  

Module 7: Project Closure

  • Determining if a project is ready to close  
  • Transfer of project deliverable(s) to operational control  
  • Determining if project objectives and business value have been attained  
  • Conducting lessons-learned review  
  • Appropriate celebrations  
  • Building project management capabilities in organizations  

Activity: Course Review and Communication of Learnings 

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