Project Management Foundations - Workshop

Price
$1,195.00 USD

Duration
2 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

This 2-day hands-on, discussion-oriented workshop allows students to gain a foundational knowledge of project management best practices and provides the opportunity to apply their project management learnings to real-life scenarios. Covering both predictive and adaptive approaches, the workshop emphasizes utilizing the practices that will be most effective within your organization.

Students will benefit from this course by understanding the foundational principles, terms, and approaches of project management, learning more effective use of industry-standard project management tools and techniques, and by gaining experience via workshop activities to practice utilizing project management frameworks. Concepts learned and practiced in this course are immediately applicable to ongoing projects.

Note: This course has been approved by PMI for 16 PDUs.

Course Objectives

Understand and use project management core terms

Explain key project management concepts and their importance to project and organizational success

Identify key stakeholder roles and leverage them to engage all stakeholders

Develop components of a project management plan appropriate for any type or size of the project

Select the best practices for a project and apply them appropriately to benefit the project and organization

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for anyone looking to enhance or reinforce their understanding of project management foundational concepts and techniques, including new both new and experienced project managers.

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Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Agenda

1 - Project Context

Projects, Products, and Processes
Project Management Challenges
Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
Organizational Context
Definition of Project Success
Notes: Workshop Activities with Breakout Group Exercises Integrated Throughout Course Outline

2 - Project Approach

Predictive and Adaptive Approaches
Review of Agile
Applying What Works to Your Environment

3 - Partnering with Stakeholders

Identifying Stakeholders
Roles and Responsibilities
Key Project Roles
RACI Diagrams Exercise

4 - Starting a Project

Project Prioritization and Selection Process
Project Charters
Developing a Charter Exercise

5 - Planning a Project

Plan a Project Exercise
The PM Plan Components
The Triple+ Constraints

6 - Defining Project Scope

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Creating a WBS Example

7 - Defining and Estimating Activities

Getting to Activities from the WBS
Defining Activities Exercise
Effort and Duration
Estimating Techniques
Estimating Resources
Roll Wave Planning
Estimating Activities Exercise

8 - Developing the Project Schedule

Sequencing Activities
Dependencies, Leads, and Lags
The Critical Path and Float
Schedule Compression
Schedule Formats
Developing a Budget
Creating a Partial Schedule and Budget Exercise

9 - Planning Project Communications

Project Communication Challenges and Best Practices
Analyzing Stakeholder Communication Needs
Tailoring Stakeholder Communications
Communications Matrix
Creating a Project Communications Plan Exercise

10 - Planning Project Risk Management

Roles and Responsibilities in Risk Management
Risk Identification Challenges
Identifying Risks: Knowns and Unknowns
Contingency Reserves
Risk Analysis
Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
Risk Triggers
Risk Registers
Planning Risk Responses
Creating Risk Register Exercise

11 - Executing a Project

Leading and Managing Projects
Team Development – Tuckman Model
Building Trust
Sustaining Stakeholder Engagement

12 - Overseeing and Controlling the Project

Risks of Scope Creep and Gold Plating
Changing Control Approaches
Tracking and Reporting
Monitoring Various Aspects of the Project
Project Monitoring and Controlling Top 10
Identifying Project Tracking Requirements Exercise

13 - Closing a Project

Checklist for Closing
Lessons Learned
Celebrating

14 - Wrap-Up

Parking Lot Review
New Ideas, Confirmations, and Takeaways