I/S Resource Group: Project Management for Project Professionals, Training, Core Curriculum, Project, Project Management, PMBOK, PMBOK Guide, Project Management Fundamentals, Project Vital Signs, Project Charter, Business Case, Scope and Objectives, Work Breakdown Structure, WBS, Project Roles and Responsibilities, Project Delegation, Project Prioritization, Effort Estimating, Duration Estimating, Calendar Scheduling, Gantt Scheduling, Precedence Analysis, Resource Analysis, Quality Reviews, Change Control, Issues, Issue Logs, Project Tracking, Status Reports, Project Closure, Project Evaluation

Core Curriculum: Project Management for Project Professionals

Why This Course?

Faster, cheaper, better. Projects can be more successful: better planned, higher quality, and more responsive than ever before. The effective project manager must be able to develop better strategies, work plans, estimates and schedules. And, simply planning a successful project is merely half the job. You also need attentive tracking, status reporting and change management to assure success.

This 3-day workshop blends five modules from our Modular Project Management program. It provides practical tools and techniques for planning and managing the vital signs of project success, using content discussion, a series of exercises and case study application. Participants gain classroom experience with today's best approaches for planning, estimating, scheduling and tracking projects, in order to bring them in on time, within budget and with high quality.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the vital signs a Project Manager manages; begin a project successfully, defining the business problem or opportunity, performing early estimates, setting resource requirements and a preliminary schedule.
Use the Work Breakdown Structure in a teambuilding process to organize and define a phase's delegatable work packages; describe the needed roles in a project, and their impact on quality.
Discuss the characteristics of a really good activity-level estimate; identify the unique benefits of Assumptions Based Estimating; use different levels of effort and duration estimating methods to improve communication of the factors that affect estimates.
Produce more reliable and useful project schedules, using PERT and Gantt charts to show ways to get any project done faster and improve the use of available staff.
Apply a tracking method that produces useful reports and provides advance notice of problems; control change while retaining responsiveness to your customer; bring projects to successful closure and identify ways to evaluate the results.

Audience

This workshop meets the needs of project managers and leaders of medium to large projects: those lasting three months to two years in duration. The content is similar to our 4-day workshop, but omits the topics in that course that deal with management style, leadership, teambuilding and interpersonal skills.

Course Outline
(3 Days)

1. Initial Planning

Today's Challenges; The Vital Signs of Successful Projects; The Document of Understanding
Defining the Problem or Opportunity; Setting Project Scope and Objectives
Early Project Estimating; Project Type Analysis; Project Life Cycle Phases and Deliverables
Establishing Project Duration and Milestones

2. Phase Structuring

A Phased Planning Approach; Identify Activities For Project Phases
Organize Using Work Breakdown Structures; Roles and Responsibilities in the Team
Project Organization & Support; Project Manager Role; Planning Project Management Activities
Delegation and Ownership;Quality and Customer Involvement; Quality Reviews

3. Activity-Level Estimating

Attributes of Good Estimates; The Factors That Make Estimates Wrong
Levels of Estimating Rigor; Assumptions Based Effort Estimating
Developing Duration Estimates; Guidelines For Estimating Project Management Time

4. Phase Scheduling

Precedence Analysis: How To Get Any Phase Done Faster; Evaluating the Trade-Offs
Gantt Charts For Resource Analysis and Refined Project Scheduling; Other Charting Tools
Today's Project Management Software Support; Improved Scheduling Summary

5. Project Control & Closure

Tracking the Vital Signs; Components of an Ideal Project Tracking System
Minimum-Effort Project Tracking Methods: Quality, Duration, Effort and Assumptions
Project Progress and Status Reporting
Controlling Change and Managing Customer Satisfaction
Six Different Ways to Successfully End A Project; Project Closure; Criteria for Post-Project Evaluation
Evaluating Project Success; The Final Exam

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