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Overview:
The Challenge
It takes more than abstract knowledge to be successful at the actual work at hand: managing projects. That means we need Project Management training that does more than just focus on passing an exam. What we need is PM training that focuses on those concepts, tools and techniques that actually help us to get the job done. When we leave the course we want to feel as though we can immediately use what we've just learned. Where can we find such training?
The Solution
The Core of Project Management provides two days of practical, hands-on training in essential project management concepts and techniques. This course extends PMBOK® concepts with supplemental, field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Students are shown how to establish project control through careful scope definition and management, led through development of a detail budget, shown how to build a resource-loaded schedule that supports accurate status and forecasting, and brought through an exercise in thorough planning for rollout and transition.
The format is truly multimodal, with a mixture of exercises, group discussions, individual discovery and lecture. Every student receives a set of useful Project Management templates. All participants will return to their workplace better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion. Topics covered during this course include:
- Project Scope: Defining and controlling the work of the project
- Creating a budget that makes sense
- Resource-loaded schedule and the performance baseline
- Knowing where you are: Accurate status and forecasting with Earned Value
- Going in for a safe landing: Planning for delivery and transition to operations
Audience:
This course is ideal for Project Managers who want an in-depth look at crucial concepts and techniques, or new project managers looking for a jump start in their new profession. Newly assigned project managers and team leads, managers of project mangers, functional managers with project responsibility, and Project Management Office staff will also benefit from this course.
Prerequisites:
This course assumes that participants have participated in some projects and have some experience leading small projects or project teams. However, no prior PM training is required.
Course duration:
2 days
Course Includes:
- PMP® certified instruction
- Student Guide
- Participation Certificate
- 12 PDUs
Course Outline:
Project Essentials
- Sources of Project Success and Failure
- Project versus Product Life Cycle
- Central importance of project and product scope
- Interrelationships: scope, budget, schedule and project control
Scope Planning and Control
- The project charter: Preliminary scope
- Project objectives and Business Value
- Foundation for project planning: WBS
- Project scope and scope control
- Project Budget and cost control
- Creating a resource-loaded schedule
- The project performance baseline
Budget and Schedule
- Project status and Earned Value
- Forecasting project cost and schedule
- Status Reports; Working with baselines
- Change Control
- Controlling cost
Delivery and Transition
- Delivery as part of Transition
- Transition Planning
- Smooth hand-off to the support organization
- Lessons Learned
Review of Critical Success Factors
Learning Approach:
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in all of your future projects.
- If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
- You will receive a Student Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
Why should I take this course?:
- Experienced project managers will discover how to leverage the interrelationships among scope, budget and schedule.
- If you are new to project management, the exercises in this PM course will give insights into important techniques for managing the Triple Constraint.
- All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.
- This Project Management course demonstrates how to avoid many of the problems that project teams most often encounter.
- Project Management Training provides a variety of tools and techniques that you can use in almost any work that you do.
