Course Description

This introduction to project management training course provides you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to successfully lead a project from beginning to end. Through a simulated case study you will learn to leverage key project management concepts, implement effective project management processes, and develop leadership skills needed for successfully planning, managing, and delivering projects of any size and scope.

Benefit from this introduction to project management training in one of three formats — live instructor-led, adaptive on-demand, or enjoy a full access to both versions for an immersive, blended learning experience.

What you will learn

You Will Learn How To
  • Plan a project to ensure successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction
  • Apply best practices to plan and run projects using a 6-step project management process
  • Implement risk management techniques and mitigation strategies
  • Estimate and schedule task work and duration with confidence
  • Implement monitoring tools and controls to keep you fully in command of the project
  • Recognize and practice the leadership skills needed to run a motivated team

Course 296 Content

Introduction

  • Managing the project processes and issues
  • Creating a realistic and achievable project plan
  • Working within project constraints

Launching Your Project

Applying a project framework for success

  • Identifying the project life cycle stages and the key inputs and outputs
  • Balancing typical challenges of project management
  • Selecting and applying best practices

Core project leadership skills

  • Identifying stages of team development
  • Building and managing team effectiveness

Building a project charter

  • Defining clear project objectives
  • Determining and clarifying the goals
  • Defining key project deliverables
  • Running the objective-setting meeting
  • Gaining buy-in from stakeholders

The 6-Step Planning Method

Defining the project workload

  • Determining project scope with work breakdown structures (WBS)
  • Driving the plan down to task level
  • Calculating a first cut of project costs

Building high-confidence estimates

  • Effective ways to produce better estimates
  • Differentiating between work, duration and resources
  • Leveraging three-point estimating to refine accuracy
  • Managing the estimating process

Scheduling the project

  • Converting WBS to precedence networks
  • Determining the critical path tasks
  • Creating dependency diagrams
  • Calculating the project duration

Creating the project timeline

  • Building clear and readable Gantt charts
  • Using slack effectively in the schedule
  • Setting key milestones to track and control the project

Developing a risk management process

  • Identifying the project risks and assumptions
  • Evaluating risk impacts
  • Strategies for managing risks
  • Managing key risks with the Risk Register
  • Reducing risks through contingency plans

Effectively matching resources to work

  • Identifying the resources your project needs
  • Assigning resources to tasks
  • Analyzing resource use and costs in the schedule
  • Optimizing the use of resources
  • Preparing and agreeing on task contracts

Running the Project

Establishing an effective control process

  • Establishing change control procedures
  • Presenting the project plan for approval
  • Setting the baseline schedule

Implementing the plan

  • Monitoring actual task progress
  • Analyzing progress against the baseline
  • Correcting the project plan to achieve the objectives
  • Picking up warnings of trouble ahead
  • Engaging team members to maximize productivity

Tracking and reporting pr
RealityPlus
Through a multimedia-enhanced four-day simulation, you manage a comprehensive project from beginning to end. You use real-world PC- and paper-based tools and templates to actively present plans, control progress and close the project. Experiential activities include:
  • Defining and agreeing on clear project goals and measurable deliverables
  • Brainstorming the work breakdown structure
  • Estimating task duration and work
  • Determining task dependencies and the project schedule
  • Assigning and optimizing resources
  • Developing risk management plans
  • Producing the implementation plan
  • Managing and responding to changes
  • Evaluating motivation and team-building issues


Course: Introduction to Project Management Training

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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.

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