Project Management Fundamentals Training

Project Management Fundamentals Training Class

Duration: 2 Days

Overview

Our 2-day, hands-on Project Management Fundamentals course provides an introduction to the project management lifecycle and practical experience with the tools and techniques of project management. Students learn how to initiate, plan, monitor, control, and closeout projects more effectively. This training provides practical skills, concepts, and principles that can be taken back to the job and implemented 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, and create 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.
• Recognize the elements and process of risk management, including basic definitions, the resource management plan, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning and monitoring and create a Risk Register.
• 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 and measure performance impacts.
• 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

• Review Case Study
• Identify Stakeholders
• Select Project Manager

Module 2 – Project

Schedule Management Plan

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

Simulation Project

• Identify Critical Constraint Driver
• Identify Project Objectives
• Entering Activities and Durations
• Entering Links

Module 3 – Project Planning – Work Scope and Project Modeling

Critical Path Method

1. Scope Statement
2. Project Work Scope
   • Scope Definition
   • Work Decomposition
   • Scope Management
   • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
3. Detail Planning and Modeling
   • Model Elements
   • Activity Definition
   • Milestones
   • Dependency Definition
   • Schedule Model Paths

Simulation Project

• Review Project Scope Statement
• Review WBS
• 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 and Risk Planning and Management

1. Communications Management
2. Risk Management
   • Risk process
   • Risk Register
   • Outputs of risk analysis
   • Risk response planning
   • Risk monitoring

Simulation Project

• Create a Communication Plan
• 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
• Project Closeout exercises

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