The Complete Course in Project Management

Introduction:

Project Management has gone beyond being merely a personal skill set. It is now considered a vital organizational competency. So whether you are charged with increasing your organization's total project management capability or you are playing a role in a project, you will find this course offering a complete guide for managing any type of project. The course is designed to help you master the science of project management and to provide you with a solid foundation for the art of project management and leadership.

Targeted Groups:

• Experienced Project Managers
• New Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Project Sponsors
• PMO staff
• Employees who want to extend their experience to Project Management Area

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Understand project selection decisions in a better way
• Improve the ability to plan, schedule and control a project
• Master inter-personal skills needed to effectively manage project teams
• Improve the ability to develop appropriate performance measures
• Gain A wider choice of project planning techniques
• Gain practical tips, advice, and insight from an experienced project manager
• Examine simple and advanced project planning techniques
• Improve understanding of incorporating risk in project planning
• Review best practice in project planning and control

Targeted Competencies:

• Planning theory and application
• Risk analysis & management
• Cost estimating
• Budgeting
• Performance management
• Project progress reporting

Course Content:

Unit 1: The World of Project Management:

• Project lifecycle model
• Classic and modern project constraints and parameters
• The concept of project management maturity
• Selecting projects to meet organizational goals
• Aggregating projects into programs and portfolios
• Establishing a project support office
• Considering and confronting uncertainty in project selection decisions
• Project data, information and knowledge management
• The art, science and practice of project management

Unit 2: Project Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting:

• Project plan vs. Project planning
• Strategic, tactical and operational planning
• The contents of a project plan
• Level of detail in scheduling
• Network logic and dependency analysis
• Project uncertainty and risk management
• Introducing uncertainty in planning
• Fundamentals of budgeting & cost control
• Methods of budgeting
• Improving cost estimates
• Best practices of project planning, scheduling, and budgeting

Unit 3: Project Resourcing, Monitoring, and Control:

• Resource allocation
• Expediting a project
• Allocating scarce resources to projects
• The Critical Chain approach
• Designing the monitoring cycle
• Performance indicators and feedback mechanisms
• Earned value management
• Designing the change-control system
• Proactive management and plan updating

Unit 4: The Project Manager’s Roles and Responsibilities:

• Selection of the Project Manager
• Project Team-building and empowerment
• Team management challenges
• Delegating with confidence
• Communication within the project team
• Project team leadership
• Multidisciplinary teams
• Conflict handling
• Best practices of people-based project management

Unit 5: Project Evaluation, Reporting, Closure, and Hand-over:

• Evaluation criteria
• Project auditing
• Project review meetings
• Analyzing project performance
• Progress reports and records
• Determinants of project success
• Successful project hand-over
• Lessons learned and creating a learning culture
• Best practices of project evaluation, reporting, and closure