Course Description
Summary
The 5-day Project Management Boot Camp covers all aspects of project management; organizational, team building, conflict management, project planning, project execution and closeout. The PM Boot Camp bundles three courses into one, 5-day program; Managing People and Projects (1 day), Project Planning for Success (3 days), and Project Execution and Control (1 day). Project managers, project related staff and members of a project management office will benefit from this seminar.
Description
The Project Management Boot Camp is intended for project managers and other essential project resources that need to understand to how to organize project teams, manage conflict, as well as perform the traditional project management functions of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out. Practical learning will be promoted through group workshops that will draw upon project oriented cases. All materials taught are compliant with the guidelines established in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK®, 5th Edition, from the Project Management Institute.
Duration: 5 days
PDUs: 35 Professional Development Units directly through PMI
Compliance: PMBOK™ V5 (latest version)
Materials Provided
- Course Manual
- Case study handouts
- Exercise materials
- CD of templates in Word and Excel.
Prerequisites
Learning Approach
- A combination of lecture, discussions, and practical case workshops.
Learning Objectives
By the completion of the seminar, participants will:
- Understand the 5 key steps to project planning
- Direct answers to real world planning needs
- Understand the planning competencies as defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge of the Project Management Institute
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of key project personnel, including the project manager
- Examine and apply various project team organizational structures
- Learn how to develop a project charter
- Discover how to scope a project with emphasis on the criticality of the work breakdown structure
- Learn how to estimate project deliverables
- Learn how to schedule and budget a project
- Learn how to optimize the project plan and establish the project baseline
- Learn how to manage scope changes, issues and assumptions, earned value and project performance trends
- Learn how to manage risk, communications, quality and team performance
- Learn how to track and manage time and cost variances during project execution
- Understand how to closeout the project – including team, administrative and client processes
Seminar Outline
Introduction
Key concepts and definitions –Benefits of Project Management –Leadership-Project Organizations- Project life cycle concepts – The matrix approach – Project planning and control process – Corporate planning considerations
Projects and People Management
Leadership of the team – Team building – Communications –Conflict management – Running project meetings – Project organizations – Corporate project organization issues
Scope Definition
Developing the project charter – Developing the work breakdown structure – Developing the responsibility list
Work Package Planning (Project Deliverables)
Defining the work package – Estimating human resources and other requirements – Work package schedule – Work package budget
Schedule Planning
Steps to develop the schedule – Selection of a scheduling technique – CPM barcharting – Traditional and time critical scheduling – Schedule and resource analysis – Shortening the schedule
Budget Planning
Determining budget requirements – Developing a performance budget
Facilitating Processes
Risk management in the planning phase – Communications management in the planning phase – Quality management in the planning phase – Procurement management in the planning phase – Human resource management in the planning phase
Completing the Plan
Negotiating differences – Updating the project charter and obtain project plan approval – Preparing to implement the project plan – Team presentations: the project plan
Implementing the Plan for Execution
Optimizing the project plan – Optimization dashboard – Establishing the project baseline – Metrics for project control – Transition from planning to execution: project kick-off and team mobilization – Administering the project: Project workbook, project repository, issues management, project update process
Project Execution and Control
Project scope control: change management objectives, change process model – Time and cost control: Time keeping, earned value analysis, updating process and work package and project levels, trend analysis – Performance reporting – Execution and control of facilitating processes
Project Closure
Administrative closeout –Project close out process – Project assessment/evaluation – Project close-out report
Conclusions