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Project Management Fundamentals (PMF100)

3 days
Project Management

Learn practical project management skills for planning scope, schedules, budgets, communications, risk, execution, and successful project delivery and closure.

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Course Overview

Build a practical foundation in managing projects from initiation through closure. This course introduces core project management concepts, processes, and constraints while showing participants how to develop key project documents, manage stakeholders, gather requirements, define scope, and create work breakdown structures.

Participants also learn to develop schedules and budgets, manage risk and change, measure progress, report project status, and complete closure activities. Exercises, scenarios, simulations, and quizzes reinforce the techniques covered throughout the course.

Course Benefits

  • Explain foundational project management concepts, processes, phases, and knowledge areas.
  • Balance project scope, schedule, and cost constraints.
  • Develop core project documents, including a business case, project charter, and project management plan.
  • Identify stakeholders and create an effective stakeholder communication plan.
  • Gather and manage requirements throughout their life cycle.
  • Define project scope and create a work breakdown structure.
  • Build a project schedule, construct a network diagram, and determine the critical path.
  • Develop a project budget and establish cost and contingency baselines.
  • Identify, analyze, and plan responses to project risks.
  • Manage teams and change while measuring and reporting project progress.
  • Complete project closure activities and document lessons learned.

Course Outline

  1. Overview of Project Management
    1. Projects and project management
    2. The triple constraint
    3. The role of the project manager
    4. The project environment
    5. Triple constraint scenarios and review
    6. Knowledge check
  2. Overview of Project Management Processes
    1. Project life cycle characteristics
    2. Project phases
    3. Project management processes
    4. Knowledge areas
    5. Project management processes in action
    6. Knowledge check
  3. Starting the Project
    1. Developing the business case
    2. Using a statement of work
    3. Developing the project charter
    4. Defining the project management plan
    5. Defining the change management process
    6. Project planning exercise and review
    7. Knowledge check
  4. Communications Management
    1. Identifying project stakeholders
    2. Managing stakeholder expectations
    3. Stakeholder communication plan exercise and review
    4. Knowledge check
  5. Collecting Requirements
    1. The cost of changes
    2. Impediments to good planning
    3. Reasons for planning
    4. The requirements life cycle
    5. Managing requirements
    6. Requirements-gathering role play and review
    7. Knowledge check
  6. Defining Scope and Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
    1. Creating a work breakdown structure
    2. Work breakdown structure exercise and review
    3. Knowledge check
  7. Developing the Project Schedule
    1. Documenting scheduling assumptions and constraints
    2. Gathering activity estimates
    3. Constructing a network diagram
    4. Determining the critical path
    5. Determining calendar dates and creating the ideal schedule
    6. Assigning resources
    7. Publishing the schedule for final review
    8. Gaining final approval
    9. Project schedule creation exercise and review
    10. Knowledge check
  8. Developing the Project Budget
    1. Project costs and cost management
    2. Documenting budgeting assumptions and constraints
    3. Gathering activity estimates
    4. Aggregating activity costs
    5. Aligning the budget with funding schedules
    6. Establishing the cost baseline
    7. Determining a contingency reserve budget
    8. Publishing the budget for final review
    9. Gaining final approval
    10. Budget calculation scenario and review
    11. Knowledge check
  9. Managing Project Risk
    1. Defining risk
    2. Understanding risk tolerance
    3. The project manager's role in risk management
    4. Developing a risk management plan
    5. Risk identification and analysis exercise and review
    6. Knowledge check
  10. Executing the Project
    1. Managing the team
    2. Managing change
    3. Measuring progress
    4. Status reporting
    5. Project execution simulation and review
    6. Knowledge check
  11. Closing the Project
    1. Performing process reviews
    2. Assessing stakeholder satisfaction
    3. Documenting lessons learned
    4. Completing administrative closure
    5. Project closure exercise and review
    6. Knowledge check

Delivery Methods

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Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following would be useful for this Project Management class:

  • Basic familiarity with business concepts and organizational structures.
  • Experience communicating and collaborating with teams.
  • Basic time-management skills.
  • Comfort using standard word-processing and spreadsheet software.

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