Course Overview
TOPOrganizations with strong project management complete projects on time and on budget more often. This hands-on, discussion-oriented workshop builds foundational knowledge of project management best practices and lets students apply concepts to real-world scenarios.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 08/31/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 09/28/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 10/19/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/09/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/30/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 12/14/26 - EVT - Virtual Classroom - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPCovering predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches, it emphasizes current practices, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), to fit your organization. Through individual and group exercises, participants practice tools, techniques, and frameworks for immediate application to ongoing projects.
Outline
TOP- Project Context
- Projects, Products, and Processes
- Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
- Factors Impacting the Project Environment
- Definition of Project Success
- Project Approach
- Waterfall vs. Agile
- Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Introduction to Scrum and Kanban
- Embracing Change
- Partnering with Stakeholders
- Key Project Roles and Responsibilities
- Understanding the Stakeholder Register
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) - RACI Diagrams Exercise
- Initiating the Project
- Predictive Project Life Cycles
- Project Charters
- Developing a Charter Exercise
- Planning the Project
- Project Management Plan Best Practices
- The PM Plan Components
- Balancing Constraints
- Defining Project Scope
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Creating a WBS Example
- Defining and Estimating Activities
- Breaking Down Activities
- Defining Activities Exercise
- Effort vs. Duration
- Estimating Techniques
- Estimating Resources
- Rolling Wave Planning
- Estimating Activities Exercise
- Developing the Project Schedule
- Sequencing Activities
- Dependencies, Leads, and Lags
- The Critical Path and Float
- Schedule Compression
- Schedule Formats
- Developing a Budget
- Creating a Schedule and Budget Exercise
- Planning Project Communications
- Project Communication Challenges and Best Practices
- Analyzing Stakeholder Communication Needs
- Tailoring Stakeholder Communications
- Communications Matrix
- Creating a Project Communications Plan Exercise
- Planning Project Risk Management
- Roles and Responsibilities in Risk Management
- Risk Identification Challenges
- Identifying Risks: Knowns and Unknowns
- Contingency Reserves
- Risk Analysis
- Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
- Risk Triggers
- Risk Registers
- Planning Risk Responses
- Creating Risk Register Exercise
- Other Planning Considerations
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI (GenAI) vs. Artificial General Intelligence
- How to Use AI in Project Management
- Risk of Using GenAI
- Executing a Project
- Leading and Managing Projects
- Developing the Team and Trust
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Power Skills and Emotional Intelligence
- Overseeing and Controlling the Project
- Monitoring vs. Controlling the Project
- Change Management
- Tracking and Reporting
- Controlling the Project Schedule
- Monitoring Communications, Risk, and Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Monitoring and Controlling Top 10
- Identifying Project Tracking Requirements Exercise
- Closing a Project
- Closing Projects, Phases, or Milestones
- Lessons Learned
- Celebrating Project Successes
- Wrap-Up
- Parking Lot Review
- New Ideas, Confirmations, and Takeaways
Prerequisites
TOPWho Should Attend
TOPThis course is ideal for anyone seeking to enhance or reinforce foundational project management concepts and techniques. It benefits new and experienced project managers, project coordinators, team leads, and professionals involved in projects who want practical experience with predictive, agile, or hybrid approaches and modern tools, including AI.
