Project Management Training: PMBOK based Tools & Techniques

The course PMBOK based Tools & Techniques (Project Management Training) is an exploration of traditional PMBOK based project management. The training covers every stage of project management from Project Initiation to Project Closure.

Included are key skills for the preparation of the Business Case & the Project Charter, the identification of Stakeholders, the creation & maintenance of the WBS, task scheduling, resource management, the creation of a Critical Path & more. You learn how to create and maintain a realistic budget & project schedule in the real world.

The course also covers risk management, stakeholder management, communication management if that were not enough. This training course is a complete exploration of the project management discipline.

Course Outline

Understanding Projects: Key Concepts and Terms

• What is and is not a Project?

• Understanding Project Phases

• What is Project Management?

• The Project Organization: Projects, Portfolios and Programs

• Key Relationships: Project, Program and Portfolio Management

• Projects and Strategic Planning

• Differentiating between Project Management and Operations

• Understanding Business Value, Business Justification and Projects

• The Project Manager: Roles and Responsibilities

• The Project Team: Composition and Roles

• Project Management and Technology: Concepts and Implementation

• Exercise: Identifying the Project and the Team

Project Management: The Lifecycle and the Project Context

• About the Project Lifecycle: Processes and Phases

• Tailoring to the Project Environment

• Organizational Structure

• Organizational Cultures and Styles

• Communication and the Organization

• Organizational Process Assets

• Enterprise Environmental Factors

• Projects Stakeholders

• Project Governance

• Exercise: Identifying the Project lifecycle and context

All about Processes

• Processes and Functions: Differentiating how from whom

• Understanding Project Management Groups

• The Relationship between the Project Lifecycle and Project Management Groups

• Starting Up: The Initiating Process Group

• Creating a Plan: The Planning Process Group

• Getting Work Done: The Executing Process Group

• Getting things Done Right: The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

• Ending Smoothly: The Closing Process Group

• From Beginning to End: Putting it all Together

• Exercise: Identifying the phases and the processes

Starting Up: The Initiating Process Group

• Overview of Processes in the Initiating Process Group

• Getting Formal Authorization: Develop Project Charter

• Develop Project Charter: Key Tools and Concepts

• Develop Project Charter: Key Outputs

• Know the Players: Identify Stakeholders

• Identify Stakeholders: Key Tools and Concepts

• Identify Stakeholders: Key Outputs

• Exercise: Creating a Project Charter and a Stakeholder Register

The Plan and the Scope

• Overview of Processes in the Planning Process Group

• Planning the Project: Develop Project Management Plan

• Overview of Project Scope Management Processes

• What is Scope and how do we Describe Scope in a Formal Way?

• Best Practices and Common Mistakes for Scope Management

• Understanding Requirements: Types and Taxonomy

• Collecting Requirements in the Real World

• Working with Group Creativity Techniques: Brainstorming, Affinity Diagrams and More

• Working with Group Decision Making Techniques: Unanimity, Majority and More

• The Practitioner’s Toolkit: Writing a Project Scope Description

• The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): What is it and why do we use it?

• Creating a WBS

• Creating and Working with the Scope Baseline

• Validate Scope

• Control Scope

• Exercise: Creating a Template for a Project Management Plan

• Exercise: Creating a Scope Baseline

Creating a Schedule

• Overview of Schedule Management Processes

• Plan Schedule Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Schedule Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Identifying the Work to be done: Define Activities

• The Tools of the Trade: Decomposition and Rolling Wave Planning

• Identifying how the Work will be done: Sequencing Activities

• Using the Precedence Diagramming Method

• Working with Leads and Lags

• Working with Project Schedule Network Diagrams

• Estimating Activity Resources

• Estimating Activity Durations

• Analogous, Parametric and Three Point Estimating

• Developing the Schedule

• Working with the Critical Path Method

• Working with the Critical Chain Method

• Working with Resource Optimization Techniques: Leveling and Smoothing

• Working with Modeling Techniques: What-If and Simulation

• Working with Schedule Compression Techniques: Crashing and Fast-Tracking

• Communicating the Project Schedule: Bar Charts, milestone Charts and PSN Diagrams

• Control Schedule

• Exercise: Listing and Sequencing the Activities

• Exercise: Creating a Schedule and Identifying the Critical Path

• Exercise: Applying Resource Optimization and Schedule Compression Techniques

Creating a Budget

• Overview of Cost Management Processes

• Plan Cost Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Cost Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Estimate Costs: Practical Considerations

• Analogous, Parametric, Bottom Up and Three Point Estimating

• Working with Contingency and Management Reserves

• About Reserve Analysis

• About Progressive Project Funding

• Determine Budget: Practical Considerations

• The Basics the Earned Value Management

• Earned Value, Present Value, Actual Cost, Estimate At Completion and Budget at Completion

• Determining Progress: Cost Variance and Schedule Variance

• Useful Ratios: CPI, SPI and TCPI

• Forecasting: Determining EAC Scientifically

• Exercise: Using Formal Estimation Techniques

• Exercise: Determining a Budget and Defining Contingency and Management Reserves

• Exercise: Controlling the ABC CRM Development Project: Using EVM to Assess Progress

Managing Quality

• Overview of Quality Management Processes

• Plan Quality Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Quality Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• The Cost of Quality: Conformance and Non-Conformance Costs

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Cause and Effect Diagram (Ishikawa Diagrams)

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Flowcharts

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Checksheets

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Pareto Diagrams

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Histograms

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Control Charts

• Seven Basic Quality Tools: Scatter Diagrams

• Other Tools of the Quality Trade Part I: Benchmarking, DOE and Statistical Sampling

• Other Tools of the Quality Trade Part II: Brainstorming, Force Field Analysis and More

• Control Quality: Prevention, Inspection, Attribute Sampling and Tolerances

• Exercise: Applying Quality Tools in the Real World

Managing Human Resources

• Overview of HR Management Processes

• Plan HR Management: Concepts and Practice

• The HR Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• About Organization Charts and Position Descriptions: Formats and Use

• Acquire Project Team: Tools and Techniques

• Working with Virtual Teams

• Working with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

• Develop Project Team

• About Training: Techniques and Approaches

• Team Building Activities: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning

• Other Techniques: Ground Rules, Co-Location and Recognition

• Manage Project Teams: Techniques

• About Conflict Resolution and Necessary Interpersonal Skills

• Exercise: Creating an Effective Team and Managing Conflicts

Managing Communications

• Overview of Communications Management Processes

• Plan Communications Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Communications Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Communication Channels

• Communication Models

• Communication Methods

• Managing Communications

• Control Communications

• Exercise: Creating a Communication Management Plan

Managing Risks

• Overview of Risk Management Processes

• Risk Concepts and Definitions: Appetite, Tolerance and Threshold

• Plan Risk Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Risk Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Identify Risks: Essential Concepts

• Information Gathering Techniques: Brainstorming, Delphi, Interviews and RCA

• Diagramming Techniques: Cause and Effect, Process Flow Charts and Influence Diagrams

• About SWOT Analysis

• Creating a Risk Register

• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis: Concepts

• Risk Probability and Impact Assessment

• Probability and Impact Matrix

• Risk Data Quality and Urgency Assessments and Risk Categorization

• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

• Tools and Techniques: Interviewing, Probability Distributions and Simulation

• Sensitivity Analysis

• Expected Monetary Value Analysis

• Plan Risk Responses

• Strategies for Positive/Negative Risk Responses

• Control Risks

• Risk Audits

• Exercise: Identifying Risks and Creating a Risk Register

• Exercise: Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis

• Exercise: Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis

Managing Procurement

• Overview of Procurement Management Processes

• Plan Procurement Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Procurement Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Procurement Concepts and Definitions: Contract Types and Consequences

• About Sourcing Criteria

• Conduct Procurements

• About Bidder Conferences and Procurement Negotiations

• Control Procurements

• Exercise: Conducting a Procurement

Managing Stakeholders

• Overview of Stakeholder Management Processes

• Plan Stakeholder Management: Concepts and Practice

• The Stakeholder Management Plan: Contents and Structure

• Stakeholder Analysis and the Power/Interest Grid

• Manage Stakeholder Engagement

• Control Stakeholder Engagement

• Exercise: Managing Stakeholder Engagement with a Stakeholder Engagement Matrix

The Closing Process Group

• Overview of the Closing Process Group

• Close Project or Phase

• Close Procurements

• Exercise: Preparing for and executing Project Closure

Comprehensive Review of Project Management Processes