Project Management Essentials

Course overview

Course outline

1. 1Day One: Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components

   • Understanding what project management is
   • Defining project and product life cycles
   • Understanding Best Practice Project Management
   • How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
   • Managing the project selection process
   • Writing SMART objectives and business cases
   • Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
   • Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises
2. 2Day Two: Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements

   • Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
   • Defining the project management
   • Understand how to collect requirements
   • Defining the full project scope
   • Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
   • Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
   • Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
   • Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
   • Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement
3. 3Day Three: Creating and Managing the Project Schedule and Budget

   • Understanding what a realistic schedule is
   • Defining and managing dependencies
   • How to estimate project durations and costs
   • Creating and optimising the project schedule
   • Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
   • How to control the cost, schedule and resources
   • Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
   • Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
   • Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating
4. 4Day Four: Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement

   • Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
   • Presenting and defining the project resource plan
   • Developing a communication plan
   • Managing Virtual Teams
   • Understanding and reviewing project risk
   • Managing the project contract against project constraints
   • Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
   • Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
   • Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise
5. 5Day Five: Working, Controlling and Closing the Project

   • Using project software to track projects
   • Dealing with project management problems
   • Project case reviews and discussion
   • Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
   • Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
   • Lessons learned, why, when and what
   • Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned