PRMG 0015 - Project Management Foundations
Course Description
Success in project management demands a structured, systematic approach to projects. Develop the core tools and techniques for each phase: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing. Gain a working foundation to better plan and control a variety of projects in your organization.
This is a required class for those pursuing the Project Management Certificate and a recommended first class.
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Course Outline/Topics
The ability to manage projects to meet corporate goals, sponsor expectations and customer need is expected by every project stakeholder. In today’s demanding workplace, it is no longer enough to carry out the fundamentals of project management. You also need to become skilled at rapidly and effectively recognizing, diagnosing and responding to these situations – and in creating an environment where they no longer occur. In this workshop, you work through a series of real-world business problems using a proven process to build and leverage your critical- thinking skills that you can easily take back to your workplace and apply.
Outline
I: INTRODUCTION
II: SETTING UP THE TEAM FOR SUCCESS
• Creating a team environment
• Talk the talk – Speaking a common language
III: CREATING A SCOPE OF WORK
• Defining the role of the project stakeholders
• Review scoping techniques
• Review creating a workable scope statement
• Communicating the scope to the stakeholders
• Create a scope statement
• Develop a communication strategy to communicate the project scope to a sponsor
IV: CONNECTING THE SCOPE OF WORK TO THE SCHEDULE CREATING THE
WBS
• Review the role of the project stakeholders
• Review the scope statement
• Identify project deliverables where you have historical information
• Select a deliverable from the scope statement activity
• Using brainstorming, creating a WBS
CREATING TIME-BASED ESTIMATES
• Types of estimating
• Adding level of confidence to estimates
• Select an estimating technique
• Estimate the tasks in the WBS
ASSIGNING RESOURCES
• Types of resources
• Review the capacity of the resources
• Identify resources used on your projects
• Assign the resources to the tasks in the WBS
• Calculate the resource costs – using blended rates
V: DEVELOPING A SCHEDULE
• Analyzing the schedule
• Analyzing the impact of constraints
• Create/review a schedule
• Assess the scheduled completion date
• Recommend strategies to shorten the schedule (what is needed day 1?)
VI: DEALING WITH PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS AND THE IMPACT OF ISSUES, CHANGES AND RISK
• Ensuring work is authorized
• Communicating project results
• Ensuring the right communication to the team
• Developing a standard reporting package
• Providing transparency to management
• Managing change/issues/risks
• Managing communications
VII: CONCLUSION
• Closing a project/phase
• Transitioning to the owners
• 30-60-90 days
• What to transition
• When to transition
• Post-implementation review – “lessons learned”
• Next steps
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
Value to the Organization
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Collaborative approach to delivery of projects to meet stakeholder needs and expectations
- Communicate the importance of a common language when managing projects
- Consistent approach to project delivery, regardless of the product, service or outcome
- Techniques and tools that can be applied immediately
Value to the Participant
- Understand the importance of leveraging the Foundation 6 of Project Management — Scope, Schedule, Budget, Tracking, Change and Risk (Issues will be included)
- Learn to leverage a consistent approach to managing and delivering project results
- Understand the importance of communicating and managing team workloads
- Understand the importance of sustainable relationships between stakeholders
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for those individuals interested in learning specific techniques and principles associated with project planning and performance tracking: Project Team Members, Project Stakeholders, Team Leads, Project Leaders, Project Managers, Business Managers, and PMP's (Certified Project Management Professionals) who need to take training/education seminars for re-certification. A basic understanding of project management is useful for this course.
Testimonials
"Course content and the new knowledge I gained highly met my expectations!"
-Brittany Mogg, Miniature Precision Components
"Excellent, knowledgeable instructor! Was very beneficial to have an instructor with her experience."
-Alex Gunderson, Bluetree Network
Partners & Professional Credits
- Project Management Institute 14.0 PDUs
Applies Towards the Following Credentials
- Business Analysis Certificate : Elective
- Engineering Leadership Certificate : Core
- Facility Management Certificate : Elective
- Project Management Certificate : Core