Project Management Fundamentals

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code.

PMFUND

length.

5 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Project Management

price.

$2,000

The course combines a mixture of theory and several practical exercises based on a case study which is used throughout the week. In addition, for the more time consuming areas, Microsoft Project will be used to demonstrate live examples of a Work Breakdown Structure and network diagrams.

Students will be provided with templates of the major documents used by project managers, the Project Charter, the Project Scope Statement, the Project Management Plan as well as worksheets for the hands-on exercises. PM Fundamentals is based on the principles and theory of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

The PM Fundamentals course will provide new project managers or people wanting a solid introduction to the project management discipline with the major tools to run a project successfully.

skills gained

Performance objectives of the course:

	Identify different types of project life cycles,
	Perform Stakeholder Analysis,
	Identify different organizational structures,
	Write a Project Charter,
	Write a Project Scope Statement,
	Identify project deliverables
	Create a Work Breakdown Structure.
	Apply techniques to estimate activity duration and work.
	Develop a Project Schedule
	Prepare a Project Management Plan
	Interpret project bar charts
	Understand project network diagrams
	Understand organizational strategy and change
	Identify the causes of change in a project
	Design strategies for implementing change
	Understand basic accounting ideas on cost
	Use cost estimating methods for a project
	Understand cost control for a project
	Understand basic ideas on quality in a project
	Create a Quality Plan for a project
	Define Quality Control activities for a project
	Identify the roles and responsibilities of your team members
	Create a Responsibility Assignment Matrix
	Know how to manage conflict
	Understand the powers of a project manager
	Plan what to tell stakeholders and how to tell them
	Create a Communications Planning Matrix
	Communicate persuasively
	Deal with difficult stakeholders
	Identify the major risks to your project
	Perform a risk analysis for your project
	Identify strategies to deal with risk
	Create a risk response plan
	Monitor risk on a project
	Understand the procurement process for a project
	Identify the common types of contract
	Choose an appropriate contract to manage the risk of your project
	Calculate the settlement figure for a contract

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course content details

	1 - The Project Environment:

	What is project management?
	Why we do it
	Why do projects fail?
	Project phases/lifecycle
	Types of organizations
	Stakeholder identification and analysis
	a. Students will perform a stakeholder identification and analysis exercise using case study.
	b. Students will perform a stakeholder identification and analysis exercise using real information from their workplace.

	2 - Project Management Processes (after Project Management Institute (PMI)).

	3 - Project Integration Management:

	The Project Charter:
	a. Students will prepare a project charter using the case study.
	b. Students will prepare a project charter using information from their workplace.
	The Project Plan:
	a. Importance of Change Control
	b. Change control procedures

	4 - Managing Project Scope

	Scope definition
	Scope statement
	a. Students will prepare a scope statement for the case study.
	Scope Management Plan
	Create Work Breakdown Structure
	a. Students will prepare a WBS for the case study Deliverables
	a. Students will identify the deliverables for the case study.
	b. Students will identify the deliverables for a project at their workplace.
	Scope control
	a. Importance of scope control
	b. How to control project scope

	5 - Building the Project Schedule

	Defining the activities involved in the work
	How to put the activities in a logical order.
	Activity dependencies
	Developing the Schedule
	PERT calculations
	How to shorten a project schedule

	6 - Project Cost Management

	Overview of project cost concepts
	Cost estimation methods
	Cost control

	7 - Overview of quality concepts

	Students will identify quality standards for the case study.
	Quality Planning, quality assurance and quality control

	8 - Managing and Motivating the Project Team

	Roles and responsibilities
	Stages of team development
	Leadership styles
	Managing conflict
	Theories of motivation

	9 - Communicating with Stakeholders

	Students will prepare a communications management matrix for the case study.
	Communication methods
	Meeting management
	The art of persuasion

	10 - Managing Risk in Projects

	Risk identification
	a. Students will prepare a risk register for the case study.
	b. Students will prepare a risk register for a project at their workplace.
	Qualitative risk analysis
	a. Students will perform qualitative risk analysis for the case study.
	b. Students will perform qualitative risk analysis for a project at their workplace.
	Responding to risk
	a. Types of risk
	b. How to prepare a Risk Response Plan.

	11 - Overview of Project Procurement Management

	Elements of a contract
	Types of contracts