Introduction To Project Management Training

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.

Project Management Training Information

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 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