Who Can Benefit?

• Those who are looking for formal project management training

Course Objectives:

• Understand the key principles for project management success
• Determine the main benefits of project management
• Use the tools of project management
• Determine the concepts and terms of project management
• Start and complete a project: A step by step:
• Project Planning, Scheduling and Budgeting (determine how to do the project)
• Develop (do one right)
• Project Implementation and Controlling (do all when right)
• Project Close Out (Terminating) and Evaluation

Course Outline:

• What Is a Project?
  • Definition and characteristics of a project and how it differs from other forms of endeavor;
  • The 3 dimensions of project objectives;
  • The "Key Drivers" of a project;
  • The "4 Project Management Steps";
  • Top-down defined versus bottom-up planning philosophy;
  • Finding the right combination of factors;
  • The typical parameters used to measure a project are not the right parameters to manage it
• The Skills of a Project Manager
  • Interpersonal Skills (leadership, team building, etc.)
  • Mechanical Skills (planning, estimating, resource acquisition, etc.)
  • Project Planning, Scheduling and Budgeting (determine how to do the project)
  •      Why plan?
  • Putting together a project plan
  • The requirements definition
  • Writing the project goal
  • Important elements of the goal
  • Tasks and subtasks
  • Rules for brainstorming
  • Work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Using a WBS for cost mapping
  • Time allocations
  • Costs estimations
  • Resource requirements
  • Obtaining resources for your project
  • Assigning resources to your project
  • Motivating resources for project success
  • Project Risk assessment
  • Sensitivity(the "What If") analysis
  • The 80/20 rule
• Develop (do one right)
  • Training (as needed)
  • Prototype
  • Test (Unit, Integration, User)
  • Pilot
• Project Implementation and Controlling (do all when right)
  • Crash Path Analysis
  • Resource loading and leveling
  • Project status reporting
  • Project Baseline Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Managing change
  • Trade off analysis
  • Project Cost control
  • Types of budget
  • Project Spend Plan
  • Earned value management system
• Project Close Out (Terminating) and Evaluation
  • Timing of project termination
  • Project post mortem questions
  • Phase out plan
  • Lessons learned report
• Post-project
  • Objectives met?
  • Budget sign-off
  • Customer appraisal
  • Project review document
  • Team reassigned
  • Transfer of responsibilities