Foundation in Project Management

    

Summary:
This course delivers practical, training in essential project management concepts and techniques that every project manager must know. While based on PMBOK concepts, all topics are supplemented with field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. The format is truly multimodal, with a mixture of exercises, simulations, group discussions, individual discovery and lecture. Every student receives a set of useful Project Management templates. Whether new to Project Management or building on existing skills, participants will return to their workplace better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course will be of enormous value to newly assigned project managers and team leads, project managers who are looking for a refresher on basic concepts and techniques, managers of project mangers, functional managers with project responsibility, and Project Management Office staff.

Topics:

• Project lifecycle and project environment
• Getting a project off to a good start
• Knowing who your stakeholders are
• Providing estimates you can live with
• Defining and managing scope, schedule and budget
• Establishing effective communication
• Procurement; Resource Planning
• Putting quality into the product
• Managing Project Risk
• Status Reports, Project Metrics and Earned Value
• Change Control; working with baselines
• Managing stakeholders and vendors
• Controlling cost
• Product delivery
• Lessons Learned

Prerequisites:
This course assumes minimal experience with project work.

Last Update: May 21, 2012