Applied Project Management Boot Camp Training Class

1. Laying the Foundation

You will explore the Project Management Institute's (PMI) framework for project
management including the life cycle processes and knowledge areas.

2. Defining a Project

Understand the difference between projects, programs, and reoccurring
activities. Build a business case for your project, understand the significance
of the triple constraints, develop your project scope through the use of a
project charter, and identify and start to manage stakeholder expectations.

3. Creating the Schedule

You will learn the seven steps of successful planning and practice developing a
work breakdown structure, effective estimates, diagramming a project, and
identifying the critical path.

4. Planning for Quality

Be sure that what you deliver is what your customers expect. Learn how to
develop quality plans and methods for quality assurance and control.

5. Managing the Risks

You will learn how to identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks through
mitigation strategies and contingency planning.

6. Dealing with Vendors

A project typically involves working with vendors for software, hardware,
services, or staff. Learn procurement planning and how to solicit, select, and
manage vendors.

7. Managing the Project

Learn why base lining your project schedule can help as well as effective
techniques to track and report progress. In addition, discover the importance of
formal change control processes and managing organizational change as part of
the project life cycle.

8. Closing the Project

Getting the final deliverable to the customer is not the end of the project.
Learn the best practices for formal signoff, conducting lessons learned, and why
archiving project documents is such an important step for you and your
organization.

9. Case Studies

You will be given a realistic case study that will serve as the context for most
of the exercises in the course. The case study project provides a basis for
practicing new tools and techniques for managing the competing demands of a
cross-functional project team, conflicting expectations among stakeholders, and
significant, visible organizational impacts.

10. Exercises

Work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct stakeholder
analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan for
the case study project. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency
analysis, and network diagramming. Use available progress information to
determine the project's earned value. Consider various and competing
expectations from stakeholders, including the customer, sponsor and team, as you
develop and present plans to address expectations in ways that benefit the
project.

Hands-On Activities - Practice Creating the Following:

• Project charter
  
• Work breakdown structure
  
• Network diagram and identifying the critical path
  
• Resource assignment matrix
  
• Communication, quality, risk, cost, procurement, and change control plans
  
• Budget
  
• Status report for schedule and budget
  

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