PROJECT MANAGEMENT SHORT COURSES

Duration

6 Hours.

Who Should Attend

Students enrolling in this course should be planning to lead a project (primary audience) or serve on a project team (secondary audience).

Prerequisites

None.

Course Content

1. The Project Life Cycle

• What is a project
• Differentiating between projects and non-projects
• Project life cycle
• Listing the steps and deliverables in a project
• The role of the project manager
• Understanding the role of the project manager
• Apply your knowledge 1-1

2. What Makes a Project Successful

• Project definition and scope
• Defining project purpose
• Defining project goals and objectives
• Defining project scope and scale
• Defining project deliverables
• Identifying stakeholders
• Defining sign-off and review hierarchies
• Defining a reporting plan
• Apply your knowledge 2-1
• Statement of work
• Putting the elements together
• Apply your knowledge 2-2

3. The Project Team

• How do you select the right people for your team
• Evaluating criteria for team member selection
• Creating a team skills roster
• Apply your knowledge
• Evaluating team rules and procedures
• Defining elements of a team charter
• Setting up internal reporting procedures
• Apply your knowledge 3-2

4. Project Plans

• Risk and how to control it
• Identifying sources of risk and approaches for controlling it
• Check your skills 4-1
• The deliverables breakdown structure (DBS)
• Creating the DBS
• Apply your knowledge 4-1
• The work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Creating the WBS
• Apply your knowledge 4-2

5. Team Schedules

• Including team members in scheduling
• Discussing the reasons for including team members in scheduling
• The Gantt Chart
• Reading the Gantt Chart
• Check your skills 5-1
• The Network Diagram
• Reading the Network Diagram
• Check your skills 5-2
• The Critical Path
• Defining dependencies
• Identifying the Critical Path
• Float
• Calculating float
• Apply your knowledge 5-1

6. Project Activity Plans

• Activity planning
• Creating an activity Plan
• Estimating time and duration of activities
• Apply your knowledge 6-1

7. Project Budgets

• What is a budget
• Listing elements of a budget
• The draft budget
• Discussing estimating techniques
• Apply your knowledge 7-1
• Budget and schedule balancing
• Discussing bringing budgets and schedules into line with reality
• Apply your knowledge 7-2

8. Project Operations and Control

• Is the project moving forward
• Discussing issues in maintaining project momentum
• Is the project on target
• Monitoring project progress
• Check your skills 8-1
• Earned value analysis
• Checking for deviation from schedules and budgets
• Check your skills 8-2
• Getting back on track
• Discussing ways to manage trade-offs
• Apply Your Knowledge 8-1

9. Project Reporting

• Types of reports
• Identifying elements of a reporting system
• Apply your knowledge 9-1
• The project status report
• Discussing a project status report template
• Apply your knowledge 9-2
• The change request
• Discussing a change request template
• Apply your knowledge 9-3

10 Project Close-Out

• Elements of close-out
• Discussing the close-out punch list
• Project hand-off
• Discussing the hand-off checklist
• Evaluation of success
• Learning from project experiences
• Discussing reporting criteria for project outcomes
• Apply your knowledge 10-1
• The people side of project close-out
• Helping the team to deal with change
• Discussing criteria for team member evaluation
• Apply your knowledge 10-2

The Secret to Success

Short courses are an easy and effective way to upskill your people. This enables them to apply their new knowledge in your workplace immediately.