The Project Management Fundamentals course is a primer on the basics of Project Management. Participants learn how to use a range of project management techniques to manage the project life cycle and associated phases of a project. You will gain skills to plan, organise, control, document and close out their projects successfully. You will also examine strategies around budgets and risk minimisation.
- What is a Project?
- The Project Management Life Cycle
- The Role of the Project Manager
- Project Life Cycle Overview
- List the Project Phases
- The Project Environment
- Project Constraining Factors
- Project Concept Definition
- The Statement of Work
- Team Building Basics
- The Project Charter
- The Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Packaging Sequences
- Tasks Relationships Types
- The Scheduling Basics
- Task Time Vs Duration of Effort
- Scheduling Methods
- The Budgeting Process
- Budgeting Problems
- Creating a Preliminary Budget
- What is a Project Team?
- Methods used to select Team Members
- The Team Charter
- Definition of Risks
- Sources of Risks
- Risk Ranking and Assessing
- Risks Management Approaches
- The Implementation Phase Elements
- Project Baselining
- Schedule Variances
- Project Communication Plan
- Evaluation of People and Projects
- Close Out Phase Elements
- Final Report
Key Business Benefits
- Decreases costs through greater productivity and effective scope management
- Helps foster accountability for project subordinates through better people management
- Mitigates risk through better scope and risk management
- Appeases internal and/or external customers through timeliness
- Saves potential cost of rehiring, retraining and lost productivity by better people management
Key Participants Benefit
- Builds confidence by ‘knowing’ best techniques and templates/steps to follow
- Make it easier to manage the people equation by better people management skills
- Increases time effectiveness by more adept handling of all aspects of the project
- Lessens stress by better planning and having direct reports take on more accountability
- Increases productivity and the potential of a favourable reputation by better scope and people management
- Identify key stakeholders and their roles
- Collect actual work performed on projects
- Update plan components
- Manage project risk and maintain a schedule and budget with consistent predictive power
- Manage cost, scope, time, risk, quality, and project change according to a set of processes
- Analyse projects and the project management process continually
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