Project Management Skills for Success Course

Grand Cayman.  We also provide it on an on-site basis anywhere in the world.

Project Management Skills Course Details

• Length: 40 hours.
• Style: Instructor-led, using PowerPoint presentations, facilitated discussions, individual and group exercises.
• Texts: Participants receive a copy of Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® Guide, and a course participant’s manual/binder.
• Format: Classroom.  No computers required.
• Prerequisites:  None.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand the language and structure of the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge.
• Discuss the advantages of different life cycle approaches.
• Understand the value of project charter documents.
• Identify and engage stakeholders more effectively.
• Consider the impact of the environment or context in which your projects occur on your planning processes.
• Develop work breakdown structures to better define your project and reduce the likelihood of missed scope.
• Develop network diagrams that model how your project will be executed.
• Schedule your project and identify the critical path.
• Use various tools and reports to improve project communications.
• Add resource and cost information to your plans.
• Run better project status meetings.
• Better estimate your project costs and durations.
• Identify, prioritize, respond to, and manage, project risks.
• Track issues and action items in a more systematic manner.
• Update your project plans on a regular basis.
• Measure how your project is progressing.
• Document procurement options and contract types.
• Work with schedule delays and modify your project plan appropriately to minimize their impact.

Course Content – Day One

• Approach to Course
• The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide®)
• What is a Project?
• Project Creation
• What is Project Management?
• Collections of Projects
• What’s Driving the Need for Project Management?
• The Project Management Institute
• Predictive Project Life Cycles
• Phase Gates
• Iterative/Incremental Life Cycles
• Adaptive Life Cycles
• Project Management Process Groups
• Progressive Elaboration
• PM Knowledge Areas
• Tailoring
• Governance
• The Project Manager
• Organization Structures
• Project Management Office (PMO)
• Project Sponsors
• A Basic Approach the Project Management
• Why Some Organizations Struggle to Implement Project Management
• Business Cases
• Project Benefits Management Plan
• Project Charter

Course Content – Day Two

• Organizational Process Assets
• Enterprise Environmental Factors
• Project Stakeholders
• Project Team
• Project Management Team
• Program Manager
• Portfolio Manager
• Project Manager Competencies
• Strategic/Business Management
• Leadership and Management
• Politics and Power
• Project Integration Management
• Assumption Log
• Baselines
• Project Management Plan
• Performance Measurement Baseline
• Develop Project Management Plan
• Project Documents
• Deliverables
• Issue Log
• Manage Project Knowledge
• Explicit Knowledge
• Lessons Learned
• Tacit Knowledge
• Knowledge Management
• Information Management
• Monitor & Control Project Work
• Variance Analysis
• Change Management Plan
• Four Types of Change Requests
• Configuration Management Plan
• Perform Integrated Change Control
• Change Management Process
• Change Control Boards
• Close Project or Phase
• Final Report
• Project Stakeholder Management
• Identify Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Register
• Stakeholder Stake
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Power/Interest Grid
• Stakeholder Cube
• Salience Model
• Plan Stakeholder Engagement
• Stakeholder Engagement Plan
• Active Listening

Course Content – Day Three

• Project Scope Management
• Product/Project Scope
• Plan Scope Management
• Collect Requirements
• Requirements Documentation
• Traceability Matrix
• Define Scope
• Project Scope Statement
• Create WBS
• WBS: Rolling Wave Planning
• WBS: Checklist
• WBS: The 100% Rule
• WBS: Control Accounts
• WBS: Planning Packages
• WBS Dictionary
• WBS Templates
• Scope Baseline
• Control Scope
• Variance Analysis
• Validate Scope
• Adaptive/Agile Lifecycles
• Project Schedule Management
• Plan Schedule Management
• Releases
• Time-Boxed Period
• Kanban Board
• Sequence Activities
• Precedence Networks
• Schedule Network Templates
• Internal versus External
• Mandatory versus Discretionary
• Leads and Lags
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Resource Requirements
• Project Management
• Information System (PMIS)
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Common Estimating Themes
• Parkinson’s Law
• Voting
• Analogous Estimating
• Parametric Estimating
• Three-Point Estimating
• Reserve Analysis
• Contingency Reserves
• Management Reserves
• Develop Schedule
• CPM Scheduling
• The Importance of Total Float
• Schedule Constraints
• Positive Total Float
• Negative Total Float
• CPM: Different Kinds of Float
• CPM: Near Critical
• Resource Optimization
• Resource Leveling
• Schedule Compression
• Crashing
• Agile Release Planning
• Schedule Baseline
• Project Schedule
• Milestone Charts
• Bar Charts
• Control Schedule
• Control Schedule: Agile
• Work Performance Data
• Collecting Actuals
• Progress Collection Considerations
• “Actuals” Collection Strategies
• 50/50 Progress Reporting Rule
• Keys to a Successful Status Meeting
• Status Meeting Agenda
• Typical Status Meeting Topics
• Meeting Notes

Course Content – Day Four

• Earned Value Management
• Planned Value (PV)
• Earned Value (EV)
• Actual Cost (AC)
• Variances
• Performance Indices
• Project Cost Management
• Plan Cost Management
• Estimate Costs
• Analogous Estimating
• Parametric Estimating
• Reserve Analysis
• Cost Estimating Software
• Activity Cost Estimates
• Determine Budget
• Project Funding Requirements
• Common Budgeting Problems
• Control Costs
• Cost Tracking
• Project Quality Management
• Customer Satisfaction
• Prevention over Inspection
• Continuous Improvement
• Management Responsibility
• Cost of Quality (COQ)
• Mutually Beneficial Partnerships
• Quality versus Grade
• Precision versus Accuracy
• Quality and the 12 Agile Principles
• Gold Plating
• Plan Quality Management
• Quality Metrics
• Manage Quality
• Quality Checklists
• Process Analysis
• Cause and Effect Diagrams
• Audits
• Control Quality
• Inspection
• Project Resource Management
• Agile/Adaptive Teams
• Plan Resource Management
• Recognition Plan
• Team Charter
• Organization Breakdown Structure
• Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
• Assignment Matrix
• Acquire Resources
• Negotiation
• Virtual Teams
• Develop Team
• Team Development Stages
• Conflict Resolution Techniques
• Motivational Theories
• Team Building
• Personnel Assessment Tools
• Training
• Team Performance Assessments
• Manage Team
• Control Resources
• Plan Communications Management
• Communication Technology
• Communication Blockers
• Communication Methods
• Communications and Agile
• Manage Communications
• Nonverbal Communications
• Project Reporting
• Monitor Communications

Course Content – Day Five

• Project Risk Management
• Overall Project Risk
• Stakeholders and Risk
• Risk and Agile
• Plan Risk Management
• Risk Categories
• Risk Breakdown Structure
• Identify Risks
• Checklists
• Assumption and Constraints Analysis
• SWOT Analysis
• Document Analysis
• Prompt Lists
• Risk Register and Risk Report
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Probability and Impact Assessment
• Impact Rating Table
• Assessment of Other Risk Parameters
• Plan Risk Responses
• Contingent Response Strategies
• Strategies for Overall Project Risk
• Contingency Reserve Calculation
• Implement Risk Responses
• Monitor Risks
• Risk Reviews
• Project Procurement Management
• Contract Life Cycles
• Buyers and Sellers
• Organizational Influences
• Contracts and Contracting Terms
• Agreements and Risk
• The Procurement Process
• Procurement and Agile
• Plan Procurement Management
• Fixed Price Contracts
• Cost Reimbursable
• Time and Material (T&M)
• Contract Types and Risk
• Make-or-Buy Analysis
• Source Selection Analysis
• Procurement Management Plan
• Procurement Strategy
• Delivery Methods
• Bid Documents
• Statements of Work (SOW)
• Terms of Reference (TOR)
• Contractual Terms and Conditions
• Independent Cost Estimates
• Conduct Procurements
• Bidder Conferences
• Selected Sellers
• Screening System
• Control Procurements
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
• Closed Procurements
• Payments
• Early Contract Termination
• Seller Performance Evaluation Documentation
• Next Steps

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