Course Description
Delays, cost overruns, or quality problems can wreck your project. Keep it on course with this 5-day overview of project management.
Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK®, this project management workshop helps you master the entire PM process. You’ll earn 35 professional development units (PDUs) pre-approved by PMI, and you’ll gain skills and in-depth knowledge that prepare you for the next level: the Project Management Professional certification.
You Will Learn How To:
- Manage projects with confidence
- Avoid dangerous shortcuts and omissions
- Monitor risks and correct trouble spots
- Put together a solid team and effective documentation
- Pave the way for achieving PMP® status
You’ll Also Receive:
- A complimentary copy of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 6th Edition, by PMI®—a $65.95 value
- Learn all aspects of project management from the perspective of the PMBOK Guide
- Acquire necessary prerequisite knowledge to enter a PMP Exam Prep training program
- Achieve competence in the 10 project management knowledge areas and five process groups
- Master the 47 competencies outlined in the PMBOK Guide
- Learn the techniques of documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints
- Become skilled at identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
- Learn how to develop a WBS and create a project charter
- Get skills to determine the critical path of a project
- Learn how to staff your project for optimum results
- Become skilled in executing, monitoring and controlling the tasks defined in your project plan
Online Accreditation
3 CEU, 35 PDU
What you will learn
DAY 1
Examining the Project Management Framework
- Exploring characteristics of projects
- Reviewing project management terminology
- Considering environmental influences
Reviewing the Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Describing the project management process groups
- The project management knowledge areas
- Project management competency standards
Initiating the Project
- Using project selection methods
- Defining project scope
- Documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints
- Identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
- Evaluating the project charter
DAY 2
Planning the Project
- Defining and recording requirements, constraints and assumptions
- Identifying project team members and defining roles and responsibilities
- Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Developing the change management plan
- Identifying risks and defining risk strategies
- Obtaining plan approval
- Conducting the kickoff meeting
DAY 3
Executing the Project Plan
- Executing the tasks defined in the project plan
- Ensuring a common understanding and setting expectations
- Implementing a quality management plan
- Executing approved changes, actions and workarounds
- Improving team performance
DAY 4
Monitoring and Controlling the Project
- Measuring project performance
- Verifying and managing changes to the project
- Ensuring that project deliverables conform to quality standards
- Monitoring all project risks
DAY 5
Closing the Project
- Obtaining final acceptance for the project
- Getting financial, legal and administrative closure
- Releasing project resources
- Creating and distributing a final project report
- Archiving and retaining project records
- Measuring customer satisfaction
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Location: VA, Arlington
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Date & Time: May 06, 2024 09:00 AM ET
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Date & Time: May 06, 2024 11:00 AM ET
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Date & Time: Jun 03, 2024 09:00 AM ET
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Cancelation Policy
If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.
