Day One: Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components
- Understanding what project management is
- Defining project and product life cycles
- Understanding Best Practice Project Management
- How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
- Managing the project selection process
- Writing SMART objectives and business cases
Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises
Day Two: Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements
- Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
- Defining the project management
- Understand how to collect requirements
- Defining the full project scope
- Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement
Day Three: Creating and Managing the Project Schedule and Budget
- Understanding what a realistic schedule is
- Defining and managing dependencies
- How to estimate project durations and costs
- Creating and optimising the project schedule
- Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
- How to control the cost, schedule and resources
Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating
Day Four: Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement
- Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
- Presenting and defining the project resource plan
- Developing a communication plan
- Managing Virtual Teams
- Understanding and reviewing project risk
- Managing the project contract against project constraints
Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise
Day Five: Working, Controlling and Closing the Project
- Using project software to track projects
- Dealing with project management problems
- Project case reviews and discussion
- Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
- Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
- Lessons learned, why, when and what
Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned