Fast Start in Project Management (PMG110)
This Fast Start in Project Management course is designed to equip you with a foundational understanding of project management within a business environment. Whether you're part of a team or an individual seeking to enhance your skills, this workshop will provide valuable insights into managing projects effectively within your organization. You will explore project management principles, essential methodologies, and practices that make significant contributions to successful project outcomes.
We kick off with an Introduction that covers logistics and materials, guiding you on maximizing your experience throughout the workshop. You'll learn the objectives and contents to set clear expectations from the start. Following this, the course delves into Project Management Concepts, discussing how project management fits into enterprise environments. Understand the roles of programs, portfolios, and PMOs, and gain clarity on project phases, life cycles, and key success factors essential to mastering the art of project management.
As you progress, you'll navigate through The People Side of Project Management, where you'll learn to work effectively with different social styles and their corresponding strengths and challenges. Mastering communications, both virtual and in-person, becomes a focal point, ensuring collaboration and versatility are at the forefront of your skillset.
Moving on to Initiating the Project, we emphasize defining needs and feasibility, managing stakeholder engagement, and finalizing a project charter. These foundational steps set the tone for planning and executing projects with precision. Following this module, you'll dive into Planning the Project, which highlights the importance of creating an effective project management plan, including defining scope, constraints, and deliverables.
A pivotal part of the course is Decomposition Using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Learn to deconstruct projects into manageable sections, enhancing clarity and organization to improve execution and tracking. Combined with Estimating techniques, you'll acquire skills in analyzing effort and cost, ensuring robust planning and budgeting for all projects.
The course then focuses on Sequencing and Scheduling, helping you determine project timelines, critical paths, and dependencies through comprehensive scheduling techniques and tools. Additionally, dive into resource management with Organizing and Acquiring Staff, where you will plan and acquire your project team efficiently.
Another important aspect covered is Control Plans. Develop quality management and communication plans to effectively monitor projects and manage change confidently. The Risk Management section prepares you to identify and address potential risks, ensuring you proactively safeguard project objectives.
Subsequently, the focus shifts to Executing the Project. Acquire guidelines and tools essential for implementing project plans and keeping track of progress, ensuring successful project phases. This naturally leads to Monitoring and Controlling the Project, where you will learn how to measure performance, interpret trends, and enforce controls to keep projects on track and within scope.
Finally, the course wraps up with Closing the Project. You'll cover administrative closure activities and lessons learned to ensure a comprehensive debriefing process, setting the stage for future success. By the end of this course, you will possess a strong foundation in project management practices, enabling you to confidently support or lead projects within your organization.
- Learn core Project Management Concepts
- Learn how Social Styles impact Project Management
- Learn to define and initiate a project
- Learn to define a project plan, scope statement and identify deliverables
- Learn to use a Work Breakdown Structure
- Learn to estimate task duration and costs
- Learn to schedule tasks and estimate resource requirements
- Learn to acquire and assign resources to the project plan
- Learn to implement quality and change control mechanisms
- Learn to manage and respond to risk
- Learn to execute the project plan and track progress
- Learn to monitor and control project progress
- Learn how to close a project successfully
- Introduction
- Workshop Logistics
- Workshop Materials
- How to Get the Most Out of This Workshop
- Workshop Objectives
- Workshop Contents
- Project Management Concepts
- Project Management in the Enterprise Environment
- Programs
- Projects and Sub-Projects
- Portfolios
- Project Management Offices (PMOs)
- So What is Project Management?
- Project Management Activities
- The Project Management Process
- Project Phases in Project Management
- Project Life Cycle (PLC)
- Rolling Wave Planning
- What Defines a Successful Project?
- The Project Management Triangle
- Critical Success Factors
- The Project Manager's Skills and Knowledge
- The Project Manager's Role
- The Project Participants
- The Project Sponsor
- The Stakeholders
- The Project Team
- The Project Environment
- Culture and Style
- Structure
- Project Management System
- The People Side of Project Management
- The People Side of Project Management
- The People Side
- The Social Style Model™
- Behavioral Dimensions
- Assertiveness
- Responsiveness
- The Social Style
- Social Style Characteristics
- Social Style Strengths and Challenges
- Social Style and Backup Behavior
- Versatility
- Working with Others
- Analytical Social Style
- Driving Social Style
- Expressive Social Style
- Amiable Social Style
- Building on Your Strengths
- Classification Ethics
- The Communication Process
- Virtual Communications
- Initiating the Project
- Project Initiation
- Defining Need
- Defining Feasibility
- Demonstrating Need and Feasibility
- Project Stakeholder Management
- Identify Stakeholders
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Plan Stakeholder Engagement
- Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Charter
- Project Description
- Project Purpose
- Project Objectives
- Project Requirements
- Triangle Flexibility
- Planning the Project
- Planning the Project
- Why Do You Plan?
- Developing the Project Management Plan
- Components of the Project Management Plan
- Project Scope
- Project Scope Statement
- Project Deliverables
- Exclusions
- Constraints
- Assumptions
- Approach
- Plan Procurement Management
- Characteristics of an Effective Project Plan
- The Investment of Planning
- Decomposition Using a Work Breakdown Structure
- Project Decomposition
- Benefits of Decomposition
- Decomposition Using a Work Breakdown Structure
- Benefits of the Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure Hierarchy
- Work Breakdown Structure Format
- Work Package
- Work Breakdown Structure Template
- Work Breakdown Structure Graphic Conventions
- Work Breakdown Structure Diagramming Rules
- Demonstration: Work Breakdown Structure
- Work Breakdown Structure List Conventions
- Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary
- Activity Definition
- Activities
- Skills Matrix
- Scope Baseline
- Estimating
- Estimating Accuracy
- Effort, Duration, and Cost
- Effort vs Duration
- Methods for Estimating Effort
- Weighted Average
- Expert Judgment, Delphi, and Parametric Estimating
- Analogous and Computerized Tools
- Analogous Estimating
- Computerized Tools
- Function Point Estimating
- Function Point Analysis
- Estimating Variables
- Estimating Cost
- Cost Budgeting
- Cost Baseline
- Sequencing and Scheduling
- Sequencing and Scheduling
- Determining Sequence and Schedule
- Project Schedule Network Diagram
- Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
- Precedence Diagramming
- Dependencies
- Milestones
- Producing the Network Diagram
- Precedence Logic
- Estimating Activity Resources
- Estimating Activity Duration
- Lag
- Lead
- Apply the Calendar
- Critical Path Method
- Critical Path
- Determine the Critical Path — Forward Pass
- Calculating Float — Backward Pass
- Gantt and Bar Charts
- Time/Cost Trade-Off
- Organizing and Acquiring Staff
- Resource Planning
- Acquire the Project Team
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- Constraints
- Resource Histograms
- Resource Leveling
- Develop the Project Team
- Team Website
- Control Plans
- Planning for Control
- Quality Management Plan
- Quality Planning
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Communications Management Plan
- Developing the Communication Plan
- Examples of Communication Plans
- Change Control
- Reasons for Change
- A Typical Change Control Procedure
- Example of a Change Request Form
- Risk Management
- Risk Management
- What is Risk?
- Elements of Risk Management
- Risk Management Planning
- Risk Identification
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Risk Response Planning
- Responses for Negative Risk; ie Threats
- Responses for Positive Risk; ie Opportunities
- The Risk Register
- Contingencies and Reserves
- Risk Management Method
- Executing the Project
- Project Execution
- Guidelines for Executing a Project Phase
- Tools and Techniques for Executing the Project Plan
- Project Kickoff
- Work Results
- Tracking Progress via Status Reports
- Assessing Project Status via Status Meetings
- Pitfalls of Project Execution
- Monitoring and Controlling the Project
- Project Control
- Key Control Activities
- Planning Versus Monitoring and Controlling
- Prerequisites for Effective Monitoring and Controlling
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting
- Performance Reports
- Current State Report
- Original Baseline Report
- Trend Report
- Narrative Overview Report
- Trend Analysis
- Interpreting Trends
- Example of Trend Analysis
- Questions to Ask Yourself
- Taking Corrective Action
- To Control Quality
- To Shorten the Project Duration (Time)
- To Reduce Costs
- To Accommodate Increasing Scope
- To Monitor Risks
- Tracking and Logging Changes
- Requested Modifications
- Corrective Actions
- Example Change Log Report
- Guidelines for Monitoring and Controlling a Project Phase
- Pitfalls to Project Control
- Closing the Project
- Closing
- Administrative Closure Activities
- Lessons Learned
- Example Closeout Report
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Live Private Class
- Private Class for your Team
- Live training
- Online or On-location
- Customizable
- Expert Instructors