Project Management Academy

Project Management Academy

Duration: 4 Days

Overview

Our 4-day, Project Management Academy course provides a solid understanding and extensive hands-on experience in the tools and techniques of project management. Students will learn how to initiate, plan, monitor, control and close projects more effectively. Students will work in teams to select a project and take the project through the entire project management lifecycle with in-depth team exercises. This training course provides practical skills, concepts, and principles that students can take back to the job and implement right away.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the concept of project management and basic project management terminology.
• Define the project management life cycle and the key project management processes.
• Recognize the characteristics, skills, roles and responsibilities of a project manager.
• Identify the key steps of project initiation and authorization, recognizing the key elements needed for documentation to carry forward to the scope definition process.
• Understand the importance of proper project work scope definition and planning, and its impact on the future of the project, along with creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Perform detailed planning including defining the elements of a project model, creating a project model, and understanding the Critical Path Method (CPM).
• Understand resource management inputs, results and options for issue resolution.
• Describe the importance of project communication and create a Communication Management Plan.
• Define elements of project costs, the information needed, methods of estimating, and results when integrated with project schedule details.
• Recognize the elements and process of risk management, including basic definitions, the resource management plan, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning and monitoring.
• Create and manage the project scope, schedule and cost baselines, including understanding the importance of change management.
• Track the status of a project during project execution.
• Use Earned Value Method (EVM) to analyze performance.
• Close out a project by collecting pertinent project data, closing out contracts, and collecting lessons learned.

Course Contents

Module 1 – Introduction

1. Introductions
2. Course Objectives and Agenda
3. Project Environment
4. Project Manager – Roles and Responsibilities
5. Project Constraints
6. Elements of a Project Management System
7. Benefits of Project Management
8. Project Management Processes
9. Enterprise Project Management and Strategic Alignment

Simulation Project

• Select Project
• Identify Stakeholders
• Select Project Manager
• Identify Critical Constraint Driver

Module 2 – Project Initiation

1. Importance of Project Initiation
2. Project Objectives
3. Project Deliverables
4. Project Charter

Simulation Project

• Identify Project Objectives
• Create a Project Charter

Module 3 – Project Planning – Work Scope, Detail Planning and Project Modeling

1. Scope Statement
2. Project Work Scope
   • Scope Definition
   • Work Decomposition
   • Scope Management
   • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
3. Responsibility Chart RAM/RACI
4. Detail Planning and Modeling
   • Model Elements
   • Activity Definition
   • Relationship Definition
   • Events/Milestones
   • Network Paths

Simulation Project

• Create a Scope Statement – Identify Constraints, Exclusions and Assumptions
• Define the WBS to Level 3
• Define Activities
• Define Task Dependencies

Module 4 – Project Planning continued – CPM and Resource Management

1. Critical Path Method (CPM)
   • Forward Pass
   • Backward Pass
   • Total Float Calculations
2. Total Float Analysis
3. Total Float Management
4. Resource Management
   • Resource types
   • Resource pools
   • Resource planning process
   • Resource planning benefits

Simulation Project

• Calculate Forward Pass, Backward Pass and Critical Path
• Resource Planning

Module 5 – Project Planning continued – Communications, Costs and Risk Planning and Management

1. Communications Management
2. Project Costs
   • Elements of project cost
3. Risk Management
   • Risk process
   • Risk Register
   • Outputs of risk analysis
   • Risk response planning
   • Risk monitoring

Simulation Project

• Create a Communication Plan
• Identify Costs for Tasks
• Create a Risk Register

Module 6 – Project Execution

1. Project Baselines
   • Scope
   • Schedule
   • Cost
2. Change management
   • Change control process
   • Change Request

Simulation Project

• Change Management exercise

Module 7 – Project Monitoring and Control, and Project Closeout

1. Performance measurement
   • Technical
   • Cost
   • Schedule
2. Status
3. Impact analysis
4. Project Reviews
5. Project Closeout

Simulation Project

• Status exercise
• Earned Value exercise
• Problem Resolution exercise
• Project Closeout exercises

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