Overview
The Fundamentals of Project Management is a one-day, instructor-facilitated, session designed to provide an introductory overview of the project management discipline.
The seminar structure effectively combines introductory lecture and discussion with hands-on application of the most basic project management principles.
Topics areas include:
• Project Management Terminology | • Project Organizations |
• Project Selection and Prioritization | • Initiating a Project |
• Scope Definition | • Project Planning and Scheduling |
• Resource Identification and Assignment | • Project Budgeting |
• Project Reporting | • Risk Management |
• Scope and Change Control | • Project Closure |
Audience
This session will benefit project managers, team members, functional managers, senior managers, and other key project stakeholders in any industry.
Length
1 day
Outline
The primary objectives of this session include learning how:
- To define and recognize the fundamental terminology of the project management discipline
- To identify all process groups of the project management life-cycle
- To prioritize the primary project constraints of a project
- To identify and assess the relative importance of key project stakeholders
- To identify key project deliverables and decompose them to build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- To formulate an activities list required to produce the project’s deliverables and work packages
- To build a project schedule, identify its critical path, and determine relative float/slack for activities
- To identify pertinent roles and responsibilities required to complete the project activities
- To formulate a budget estimate for the project
- To identify key communication elements of a project
- To assess key project risks and formulate action plans to minimize their exposure to the project
Course Outline
- Introduction to Project Management
- Definition of a Project
- Projects vs. Programs
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Project Management Terminology
- Triple Constraints of Project Management
- Initiating a Project
- Project Initiation
- Evaluation, Selection, and Prioritization
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Project Charter
- Project Management Organization Types
- Planning a Project
- Scope Planning and Decomposition
- Time Management and Scheduling
- Resource Planning
- Cost Estimating and Budgeting
- Executing and Controlling a Project
- Project Communications and Reporting
- Project Risk Management
- Project Change Control
- Project Quality Management
- Closing a Project
- Administrative Closure and Contract Closeout
- Lessons Learned
- Final ReportingParticipants will further expand their knowledge and experience through applied exercises. Using a selected organizational case study approach, participants will manage a sample project from initiation to closing through the following exercises:
- Stakeholder Assessment
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Risk Identification, Analysis, and Response Planning
- Final Project Reporting and Lessons Learned