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Provided by: Last Minute Training Project Management EssentialsProject Management |
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Training
Provided by Last Minute Training
This fundamental level 3-day course is designed to give new project managers and project team members the essential tools they need to deliver successful projects.
This course covers the complete project lifecycle, from initial project proposal and definition, through project implementation, and finally to the often neglected project completion phase.
This is our most popular course, it is particularly suited for a jump-startinga an entire project team about to embark on a medium to large-scale project.
Related Jobs or Careers: The Project Management Essentials course is appropriate for individuals who are:
* Responsible for managing projects.
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Project Management Essentials
Basic Concepts of a Project
* What is a project?
* What makes a successful project?
* Why do some projects fail?
What is Project Management
* Skills required: technical & people
* Comparison of project management with traditional approaches to management
PM in Different Environments
* Why use PM?
* The use of project management when dealing with:
* Repetitive versus unique projects
* Long versus short projects
* Single resources vs. large teams
* Types of project organizations/ teams
Common PM Terminology
* Project workshop scenario
Putting Together A Project Team
* Roles and responsibilities
Developing a Scope Statement
* Key deliverables/ objectives
* Measurable success indicators
* Identifying key project risk areas
* Workshop: Develop project scope statement & managing changes to scope
Detailing the Project Scope - Work Breakdown Structure
* WBS definition
* Why use a WBS approach
* Elements of an efective WBSWorkshop: develop a WBS
* Costs & time - how to estimate the impossible
* Assigning resources to activities
* Duration- and effort-driven activities
* Activity descriptions and measurable deliverables lead to project quality
* Workshop: define activity descriptions complete with measurable deliverables for specified activities
Project Activity Dependencies
* The use of activity dependencies in determining project timing
* Types of dependency relationships
* Types of activity constraints
* Developing a network diagram
* Determining the critical path and float time for a project
* Exercise: determine early start, late start, early finish, late finish, total float and critical path
* Workshop: develop network diagram for the project scenario, indicate critical path activities and float
Producing A Gantt Chart
* Using the WBS and logic diagram to determine project timing
* Producing a schedule
* Workshop: develop detailed Gantt chart
Resource Management
* Identifying and avoiding resource conflicts
* Workshop: create resource histogram; identify resource conflicts and possible solutions
Finalizing the Project Plan
* Setting the project baseline
* Obtaining approval to proceed
* Human resources management
* Project management roles
* Project status and updating
Project Wrap-up
* Project sign-off and final packaging
* Project maintenance considerations
* Redistribution of resources
* What is a project?
* What makes a successful project?
* Why do some projects fail?
What is Project Management
* Skills required: technical & people
* Comparison of project management with traditional approaches to management
PM in Different Environments
* Why use PM?
* The use of project management when dealing with:
* Repetitive versus unique projects
* Long versus short projects
* Single resources vs. large teams
* Types of project organizations/ teams
Common PM Terminology
* Project workshop scenario
Putting Together A Project Team
* Roles and responsibilities
Developing a Scope Statement
* Key deliverables/ objectives
* Measurable success indicators
* Identifying key project risk areas
* Workshop: Develop project scope statement & managing changes to scope
Detailing the Project Scope - Work Breakdown Structure
* WBS definition
* Why use a WBS approach
* Elements of an efective WBSWorkshop: develop a WBS
* Costs & time - how to estimate the impossible
* Assigning resources to activities
* Duration- and effort-driven activities
* Activity descriptions and measurable deliverables lead to project quality
* Workshop: define activity descriptions complete with measurable deliverables for specified activities
Project Activity Dependencies
* The use of activity dependencies in determining project timing
* Types of dependency relationships
* Types of activity constraints
* Developing a network diagram
* Determining the critical path and float time for a project
* Exercise: determine early start, late start, early finish, late finish, total float and critical path
* Workshop: develop network diagram for the project scenario, indicate critical path activities and float
Producing A Gantt Chart
* Using the WBS and logic diagram to determine project timing
* Producing a schedule
* Workshop: develop detailed Gantt chart
Resource Management
* Identifying and avoiding resource conflicts
* Workshop: create resource histogram; identify resource conflicts and possible solutions
Finalizing the Project Plan
* Setting the project baseline
* Obtaining approval to proceed
* Human resources management
* Project management roles
* Project status and updating
Project Wrap-up
* Project sign-off and final packaging
* Project maintenance considerations
* Redistribution of resources
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