Project Management Overview

$595.00


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Duration: 1 Day

In this course, you will be introduced to the project management life cycle and key project management concepts of constraints, stakeholders, scope, risk, and communication.

Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment. .

What You Will Learn

  • Roles and responsibilities of a project manager
  • Project management terminology as you apply basic project management concepts
  • Essential management skills and techniques of project management
  • Common project challenges
  • How you can play a more active role in supporting a project

Audience

  • Project team members who want to perform basic project management tasks on their projects or teams
  • Business analysts who are working toward their Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) certification
  • Anyone interested in becoming a project manager or exploring it as a career
  • Anyone who works with project managers, such as IT staff, functional managers and team members, sales representatives, and administrative personnel.

Prerequistes

Course Outline

1. Role of the Project Manager

  • Project Management Life Cycle
  • Project Manager Role
  • Triple Constraints

2. Stakeholders

  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Stakeholders Analysis

3. Decomposing and Estimating Work Effort

  • Project Charter
  • Scope Statement
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Estimating

4. Risk Management

  • Defining and Documenting Risks
  • Prioritizing Risks
  • Response Planning

5. Executing, Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing

  • PDCA
  • Scope Creep
  • Change Management
  • Lessons Learned

6. Wrap Up

  • Stakeholder Communication and Engagement
  • Key Points
  • Final Reflections
  • Quiz

Exercises:

  • Identifying key stakeholders on your project
  • Estimating work effort by creating a work breakdown structure and decomposing deliverables into sub-deliverables and activities
  • Estimating time to complete activities
  • Creating a team responsibility assignment matrix and determining when and how to communicate to key stakeholders
  • Identifying and analyzing risks and developing a response plan
  • Reflection prompts to solidify the learning

Course Labs