Introduction to Project Management Training Class

1. Project Management Framework

Explore the Project Management Institute's (PMI) framework for project
management including the life cycle processes and knowledge areas, and identify
core and facilitating processes. You will become familiar with the project
management vocabulary during this section.

• The Project Management Institute
  
  
  
  • Five Process Groups
  
  
  • Life Cycles
  
  
  • Nine Knowledge Areas
  
  
  
  


• What is a Project?


• Project Management Terminology

2. Initiating

Develop an understanding of how to build a business case to support the start of
a new project, establish the project scope, analyze stakeholder needs, identify
constraints and assumptions, and build a communication plan.

• Five Steps of Project Initiation


• BOSSCARD Framework
  
  
  
  • Initiating Questions
  
  
  • Objectives
  
  
  • The Project Charter
  
  
  • Constraints
  
  
  • Assumptions
  
  
  • Scope
  
  
  
  


• Stakeholder Analysis
  
  
  
  • Prioritization Grid
  
  
  • Five Stakeholder Groups
  
  
  
  


• Project Roles and Responsibilities
  
  
  
  • The Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  
  
  
  


• Sign-Off Process

3. Planning

Learn the seven steps of successful planning and practice developing a work
breakdown structure, effective estimates, diagramming a project, and identifying
the critical path. Identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks through
mitigation strategies and contingency planning. In addition, discover the
importance of formal change control processes and managing organizational change
as part of the project life cycle.

• Communications Planning


• Risk Management
  
  
  
  • Risk Management Life Cycle
  
  
  • Risk Management Workshop
  
  
  • Risk Response Strategies
  
  
  
  


• Sources of Change
  
  
  
  • Scope Creep
  
  
  • Change Control Processes
  
  
  • Change Management Plan
  
  
  • Change Control Log
  
  
  • Responding to Approved Change
  
  
  
  


• Developing the WBS
  
  
  
  • Decomposition
  
  
  • The Sticky Note Technique
  
  
  • Estimating Methods
  
  
  • Compensation Considerations
  
  
  • Dependency
  
  
  • Precedence Relationships
  
  
  • Network Diagramming
  
  
  • Critical Path Analysis
  
  
  • Using the Network Diagram\
  
  
  
  


• Creating the Schedule
  
  
  
  • Resource Allocation
  
  
  • Resource Leveling
  
  
  • Schedule Compression
  
  
  
  

4. Controlling and Closing

Explore the relationship between planning, execution, and control, and learn a
structured approach to project control. Understand how to use earned value as a
powerful tool for assessing and reporting current and predicted future
conditions of the project.

• Project Controls
  
  
  
  • The Constraints Quartet
  
  
  • Focus on Past and Future
  
  
  • Project Meeting Tips
  
  
  • Key Principles for Control
  
  
  
  


• Challenges
  
  
  
  • Activity Analysis
  
  
  
  


• Expectations
  
  
  
  • Stakeholder Expectations
  
  
  • Project Environment
  
  
  • Expectation Control Elements
  
  
  • Project Manager vs. Expectation Gap
  
  
  
  


• Organizational Style
  
  
  
  • Why do Projects Fail?
  
  
  
  

5. Closing Processes

Investigate the best practices in conducting administrative closure on a
project.

• Administrative Closure

6. 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.

7. 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. 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.

• Exercise 1: Project Management Terminology


• Exercise 2: Establishing the Project Background and Developing the
  Project Mini Charter
  
  
  
  • Complete the mini charter template
  
  
  • Identify assumptions and constraints
  
  
  • Identify triple constraints paired comparison importance
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 3: Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
  
  
  
  • Develop roles and responsibilities
  
  
  • Conduct stakeholder analysis
  
  
  • Document stakeholder expectations
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 4: Communications Planning
  
  
  
  • Document communications plan
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 5: Risk Planning
  
  
  
  • Create a risk management matrix
  
  
  • Assess risks and formulate a response plan
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 6: Change Management Planning
  
  
  
  • Create a change management plan
  
  
  • Use a change request form
  
  
  • Document changes in a change control log
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 7: Developing the WBS


• Exercise 8: Activity Definition


• Exercise 9: Estimating Activity Duration


• Exercise 10: Calculating the Critical Path


• Exercise 11: Developing the Project Schedule


• Exercise 12: Project Controls
  
  
  
  • Deliverable acceptance
  
  
  • Kickoff meeting agenda
  
  
  • Meeting agenda and meeting minutes
  
  
  • Executive status report
  
  
  • Schedule and budget status report
  
  
  • Team member status report
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 13: Managing Expectations


• Exercise 14: Planning for Closure
  
  
  
  • Closure survey
  
  
  • Closure report
  
  
  
  


• Exercise 15: Evaluating PM Competencies

Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project
coordinators, project