Project Management Essentials is designed for business professionals faced with getting projects done on-time, within budget and to the customer’s satisfaction.  It provides interactive training that will benefit both first-time and experienced project leaders and team members. Participants will develop skills  through hands-on exercises that allow them to practice the processes to organize, define, plan, track, and manage any project successfully.

Anyone involved with projects – both experienced and new project managers and their team members will benefit greatly from this course – as will supervisors, managers, directors, bankers, health professionals, scientists, project engineers, program staffers and anyone else who works on or with projects.

The common terminology and tools from the Project Management Institute, Inc. and the PMBOK® Guide will set a course for success when everyone knows the terms, and use the tools that progress a project to successful completion.

• An overview of the knowledge areas and process groups in the PMBOK^® Guide
• Roles and expectations for project managers, sponsors and team members
• How competing projects demands may require trade-offs
• The importance of a change control process
• How to create a project charter
• The process for stakeholder analysis
• How to create a Work Breakdown Structure
• How to create a network diagram
• How to use the Critical Path Technique to identify critical path and float
• The importance of a resource assignment matrix
• How to create and analyze a project schedule
• How to create a time-phased budget
• Earned Value Management terms and formulas 
• Quality principles and tools related to project management
• Risk identification & analysis and contingency reserves
• Procurement processes and risks
• Project meeting guidelines
• Developing and managing the project team

Overview and framework

• What is project management and why do it?
• Projects and strategic planning
• Roles and expectations
• Accountability
• Project Management Institute, Inc., project management process groups & knowledge areas

 

Getting started

• Managing competing demands of project requirements
• Creating a project charter
• Stakeholder engagement

 

Managing scope

• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Managing scope creep

 

Managing schedule

• Sequencing tasks with a network diagram
• Estimating resources and durations
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Schedule development

 

Managing cost

• Creating a time-phased budget
• Earned Value Management

 

Managing quality

• Standards/performance criteria

 

Managing risk

• Risk identification
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Risk response planning
• Risk register

 

Procurement management

• Planning and executing
• Impact on the competing demands

 

Project communications

• Project reporting
• Meeting guidelines

 

Project resource management

• Team development
• Conflict management
• Influence without authority

 

Integration

• Putting it all together
• What to put in the project plan
• Executing, monitoring and controlling
• Managing changes

 

Closing a project

• Post project review
• Lessons learned

Substitutions are free and must be done prior to the start of the class or certificate program.

Cancellations or rescheduling must be received in writing and full refunds will be given up to four business days prior to the start of class.

Any cancellation or reschedule submitted with three or less business days notice is subject to a $35 charge on 1 or 2 day classes and a $75 charge on certificate programs.  

No refunds after the first day of the class or certificate program.