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£1,250
+ VAT£1,250
+ VATOn-Demand course
16 hours
All levels
The course provides practical skills, concepts and principles that can be brought back to the workplace, as well as the insights needed to adapt them to specific project contexts.
Many projects are managed by competent and efficient project managers who have not received professional project management training. The work of these project managers includes optimizing processes, planning marketing, developing new products, event planning and implementation, and other project work. Project Management Fundamentals (PMF) is a project management course specially designed for such people, aiming to help such managers build a solid project management knowledge base without affecting their own work too much. The course covers practical skills, theoretical foundations, working principles required in real work situations, and how to flexibly apply the acquired knowledge to special project situations.
The goal of this lesson is to improve the quality of work by learning how to plan, manage and control projects effectively. Based on this, the course will focus on a process-oriented, analytically-oriented and systems-oriented approach. These frameworks will help students improve their problem-solving and decision-making skills in real-world projects, with particular emphasis on the collaborative, effective communication, and interpersonal skills needed to manage projects. These contents will run through the entire PMF course, and will be explained in the following two units:
People and Projects
Execution , Communication , and Building Project Teams
At the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe the value of strong project management
Identify the characteristics of successful projects and project managers
Recognize how current agile/adaptive practices fit into project management
Explore the project management process, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
Use project management processes and tools based on case studies and real-world contexts
Create a preliminary project plan
Use standard project management terminology
Project Management and Related Definitions
The Value and Emphasis of Project Management
Competitive Constraints and Project Success
project life cycle
Overview of people and projects
project manager
project team
people and projects in the organization
Startup project
Create a project charter
Conduct stakeholder assessments
define requirements
Define the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Create a working WBS
use WBS
Rationale for risk management
Risk Planning Overview
identify risks
analyze risk
Planning Risk Responses
Implement response and monitor risks
Adaptive Environmental Considerations
Define estimates
Estimation method
Estimation practice
estimated cost
Verify estimates
Define the scheduling process and related terminology
Sorting and defining dependencies
Determine the critical path
Consider Schedule Risk vs Optimizing Schedule
From Baseline to Execution
Project Communications and Stakeholder Relations
efficient team
Define Monitoring and Control
Observing how to control from the perspective of competitive constraints
Variance Analysis and Corrective Action (Earned Value)
Adaptive Environmental Considerations
finishing project
Focus on Project Transition
Focus on post-project evaluation