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Course Overview This course will teach you how to effectively manage all phases of a project. You'll learn the project management framework of initiation, planning, execution, control, and formal closing, and discover what it takes to ensure project success. In this skills-building course, you'll focus on practical tools and techniques as you spend 75% of the course working on a project-from initiation to close. You'll work individually and in teams to write objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan for a case study project. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Prerequisites - There are no prerequisites for this course.
Audience Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project team members, stakeholders, and senior managers who want to master project management. Skills Gained - Define basic terminology of project management
- Identify the project management life cycle
- Understand the project management knowledge areas
- Build a business case for project initiation
- Define project scope and stakeholder expectations
- Define roles and responsibilities for project stakeholders
- Build an effective WBS and project schedule
- Ensure buy-in from your team and sponsors
- Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
- Create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and stakeholder management
- Manage project change through formal change control processes
- Close a project
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Hands-On Exercises - Project Management Terminology
- Establish the Project Background and Develop the Project Mini Charter
- Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
- Communications Planning
- Risk Planning
- Change Management Planning
- Develop the WBS
- Activity Definition
- Estimate Activity Duration
- Calculate the Critical Path
- Develop the Project Schedule
- Project Controls
- Manage Expectations
- Plan for Closure
- Evaluate PM Competencies
- Content
1. Project Management Framework - The Project Management Institute
- PMI Framework
Five Process Groups Life Cycles Nine Knowledge Areas - What is a Project?
- Project Management Terminology
2. Initiating - Five Steps of Project Initiation
Build a Business Case Establish Project Scope Analyze Stakeholder Needs Identify Constraints Build a Communication Plan Initiating Questions Objectives The Project Charter Constraints Assumptions Scope Prioritization Grid Five Stakeholder Groups - Project Roles and Responsibilities
Responsibility Assignment Matrix 3. Planning - Seven Steps of Successful Planning
- Communications Planning
- Risk Management
- Identify, Assess, Quantify, and Manage
- Risk Management Life Cycle
- Risk Response Strategies
- Sources of Change
- Formal Change Control Process
- Managing Organizational Change
- Developing the WBS
- Diagramming a Project
- Identifying the Critical Path
- Creating the Schedule
- Producing Effective Estimates
4. Controlling and Closing - Project Controls
- Challenges
Activity Analysis Stakeholder Expectations Project Environment Expectation Control Elements Project Manager vs. Expectation Gap - Organizational Style
- Why Do Projects Fail?
5. Closing Processes 6. Case Studies - Managing Cross Functional Teams
- Dealing with Conflicting Expectations
- Handling Organizational Impacts
- Certification
- PRINCE2 - P2F4 & P4P
- PMI - PMPBC
- Trouble shooting and recovery of difficult Projects TRDP
- IT Risk Management - ITRISK
- ITIL Foundation SMEV3
- ITIL LIFECYCLE
- ITIL CAPABILITY
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