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Project Management Basics for Non-Project Managers

SS Course: 3000357

Course Overview

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Scheduled Classes

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What You'll Learn

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Participants will understand the following terms and definitions: project, program, portfolio, scope, schedule, and quality; understand the following project management skills: leadership and communication; understand the following project management frameworks: lifecycles, processes, documentation, tools, and techniques; and understand the following organizational structures: project management office, project team, matrix vs. functional; and understand the following knowledge areas: scope management, cost management, risk management, communication management, and team management.

Outline

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1.0 — Introduction

  • Seminar member introduction and overview of course material

2.0 — Project Management Overview

  • Define PM terminology
  • Define project charter
  • Define project stakeholders
  • Project management overview exercise

3.0 — Defining the Project

  • Project management process groups
  • Why do projects get initiated?
  • What are stakeholders?
  • Definition of a team
  • What is a project charter?
  • Lesson summary

4.0 — Project Charter

  • Define project charter and when it is used
  • Define who prepares the project charter
  • Project charter example
  • Project charter exercise

5.0 — Managing Project Stakeholder

  • Identify stakeholders
  • Define stakeholder register
  • Example of stakeholder register
  • Stakeholder exercise

6.0 — Communicating with the Project Stakeholder

  • Communicating with the project stakeholders
  • Example of newsletter communication plan
  • Guidelines for meetings
  • Communicating with the project stakeholder exercise

7.0 — Team Building

  • Translate responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
  • Discuss conflict resolution
  • Discuss ways to motivate team
  • Conflict and RAM exercise

8.0 — Collect Requirements

  • Collect requirements
  • Requirements relationships
  • Requirements exercise

9.0 — Define Scope Statement

  • Define scope
  • Scope statement to produce newsletter
  • Scope exercise

10.0 — Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

  • Create WBS
  • Sample WBS — new home construction
  • Newsletter WBS example
  • WBS exercise

11.0 — Project Schedule

  • Project scheduling
  • Scheduling terminology
  • Approaches to scheduling
  • Scheduling techniques
  • Sample newsletter schedule
  • Twelve steps to entering and managing a project in MS Project
  • Project do’s and don’ts
  • Schedule exercise

12.0 — Project Budgeting

  • Project management process group
  • What is a project budget?
  • The spend plan
  • Balancing scope and cost
  • Lesson summary

13.0 — Planning for Risk

  • Project management process group
  • Why plan to manage risk?
  • What is a risk management plan?
  • Risk management process
  • Lesson summary

14.0 — Approving the Project Management Plan

  • Project management process group
  • Control gate reviews
  • Performance measurement baseline
  • Lesson summary

15.0 — Monitoring, Controlling, and Executing the Project

  • What does managing include?
  • The managing cycle
  • Managing scope and quality
  • Managing schedule
  • Managing cost
  • Managing risk
  • Managing change
  • When do you revise the PMB?
  • Reporting status
  • Communicating project status
  • Lesson summary

16.0 — Closing the Project

  • Project management process groups
  • Why close projects?
  • Make projects a learning experience
  • Final project activities
  • Lesson summary

Prerequisites

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    Who Should Attend

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