Project Management

Students Will Learn

• Testing the value proposition affirmed through formal project management practices

• Surveying best practices across the generic project management lifecycle (starting, organizing/planning, carrying out the work, ending the project)

• Identifying the appropriate project development lifecycle (e.g. waterfall, agile)

• Understanding the primary elements of the project charter and how charters enhance project success

• Describing the project manager role and primary areas of responsibility

• Producing and leveraging organizational project knowledge

• Distinguishing appropriate metrics for measuring, reporting and planning

• Evaluating and applying appropriate levels of stakeholder engagement

• Developing a project management plan

• Creating baselines to measure project health

• Examining and applying various requirements collection techniques

• Determining quality requirements

• Understanding the business case and project justification

• Defining project and product scope

• Developing customer acceptance criteria

• Deconstructing project deliverables in order to plan and execute project work

• Evaluating competing time and cost estimating approaches

• Developing better scheduling practices

• Sequencing work flow and project management activities for maximum efficiency

• Identifying and organizing project resources for better acquisition practices

• Formulating project quality requirements

• Integrating and balancing project change

• Examining and developing project communication

• Using risk identification to manage project risk

• Classifying and evaluating appropriate procurement documents and contracts

• Devising project/phase closing best practices

• Choosing appropriate tools to increase automation, enhance communication and archive project artifacts

• Using data presentation tools and techniques for analysis and reporting

Course Description

Attendees learn formal project management practices through lecture combined with extensive learning activities. The class shows how to apply proven practices to provide a more structured approach to project management.

Participants are encouraged to use current project management challenges for class work. The learning activities enable the student to apply immediate solutions to real-time project management challenges.

This project management training course is appropriate for both newer and experienced project professionals, affording students both fundamental and intermediate training.

The course focus is on project management processes and as such applies to every domain. The course is aligned with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide Sixth Edition (PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition).

As such, the course touches on predictive, incremental and adaptive project development methodologies. The objectives when learning project management include distinguishing the 49 processes detailed in the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition which are widely recognized as defining best practices for most projects much of the time.

PMBOK® is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

The PMI® (Project Management Institute (PMI) is a leading source of project management certifications. This project management training course does not include the cost of any PMI credentials.

Qualified students are encouraged to pursue credentialing opportunities by visiting the PMI website. Please visit the PMI website for details on certification, certification testing centers and PDU requirements.

This class provides 28 hours of formal project management education needed for PMI certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP)® and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® as well as earning PDU's required for maintaining PMI certification. PMI®, CAPM® and PMP® are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Benefits

•  Course materials include student guide, hands-on lab manual and USB flash drive for examples and lab work

•  Students receive a certificate of completion at the end of class

•  Students can retake any portion of a live class that has been completed, within 12 months at no extra cost

•  There are no registration fees or cancellation fees

Course Prerequisites

This course is designed for project managers, team members, and senior managers looking to acquire a firm grasp of specific steps in the project management process.