Description
This course combines Management and Project Management concepts that will help your group to put a structure in your organizational projects.
Course Content
- Defining Management
- Understanding Management Functions (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling)
- Identifying Managerial Roles (Interpersonal, Informational, and Decisional)
- Reviewing project successes and their inherent characteristic
- Understanding the factors that contribute to project failure and how project management disciplines and processes target these areas to ensure repeatable delivery success
- Defining a project and project management
- Exploring project management parameters
- Critical skills for successful project management
- Examining life cycles and their significance within a project environment
- Examining phase activities, milestones and gates
- Identifying phase deliverables and their importance for ultimate project success
- Developing the project charter
- Identifying and analyzing key stakeholders
- Scoping the project – understanding and defining the scope, and obtaining key stakeholder signoff
- Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scheduling
- Understanding the Critical Path and how a Project Manager utilizes it for greater project control
- Establishing a project baseline, against which to track progress
- Identifying risks and planning risk responses
- Conducting/contributing to quality planning
- Tracking and controlling the project
- Using earned value to report progress
- Applying a disciplined change control management method
- Managing risks and issues
- Managing project quality
- Reporting and communication
- Conducting formal project closure
- Reviewing post implementation – gathering, documenting and assimilating lessons learned