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Project Management Fundamentals

Many projects are performed by highly competent and effective people who have little or no project management training. They perform projects like process improvement, marketing campaign development, new product development, event planning and production, and other 'tasks' which are projects. Project Management Fundamentals (PMF) is designed to support those people who need a solid foundation in project management, without being unnecessarily burdened to learn it while on the job.

The course offers practical skills, concepts, and principles that can be taken back to the workplace, along with insights needed to adapt them to specific project environments. In today's environment, that means possibly adapting to Agile / Iterative methods. So, we have recently added key Agile concepts to provide a basic understanding of shifting towards agility.

Since PMF's course goal is to achieve quality performance by learning effective planning and control, the focus is on a process orientation and an analytical, systems-oriented approach. Together, these frameworks promote project-related problem solving and decision-making skills necessary for real world projects. They honor project needs for collaboration, clear communications among people, and interpersonal and relationship skills. Recognition of these needs are woven throughout PMF, but are highlighted in two specific areas:

Module 2 - People and Projects

Module 8 - Executing, Communicating, and Developing the Team

What You Will Learn

At the end of this program, you will be able to:

Describe the value of strong project management

Identify characteristics of a successful project and project manager

Recognize how current agile / adaptive practices fit within project management

Explore project management processes, including Initiating, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing

Utilize project management processes and tools, based on case studies and real-world situations

Create an initial project plan

Use standard project management terminology

Foundation Concepts

Project management and definitions

Value and focus of PM

Competing constraints and project success

Project life cycles

People and Projects

People and projects overview

The project manager

The project team

People and projects in organizations

Initiating and Defining Requirements

Initiating the project

Developing the project charter

Conducting stakeholder assessments

Defining requirements

Using the Work Breakdown Structure

Defining the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Developing a usable WBS

Using the WBS

Managing Project Risk

Making the case for risk management

Overview to planning for risk

Identifying risks

Analyzing risks

Planning responses to risks

Implementing response and monitoring risks

Considerations for adaptive environments

Estimating

Defining an estimate

Estimating approaches

Estimating practices

Estimating cost

Validating an estimate

Scheduling

Defining the scheduling process and related terminology

Sequencing and defining dependencies

Determining the critical path

Considering schedule risks and optimizing the schedule

Executing, Communicating, and Developing the Team

From baseline to execution

Project communications and stakeholder relationships

High-performing teams

Monitoring and Controlling

Defining monitoring and controlling

Viewing control through the competing demands lens

Variance Analysis and corrective action (Earned Value)

Considerations in adaptive environments

Closing the Project

Closing projects

Focusing on project transition

Focusing on post-project evaluations

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Project Management Fundamentals

By IIL Europe Ltd

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