Duration: 1 Day
PDUs: 7
CEUs: .7
Audience:
- Project Managers
- Team Members
Classroom Delivery
Virtual Delivery
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Description
This one-day course takes a light hearted approach to presenting project team members with a “big-picture” view of project management. It stresses the essential goals of project management and how project management works based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 6th Edition process groups and knowledge areas. The course uses hands-on exercises focused on a project case study designed to bring the theories and practices to life. A series of interactive exercises, utilizing tools and templates, provides an understanding of how the training relates to real-life project work.
Objectives
- Define the goals of project management
- Define key project management terminology
- Build a work breakdown structure
- Build a network diagram
- Identify project risk and complete a qualitative risk analysis
Topics
Project Management Basics
- What is project management?
- What is the PMBOK® Guide?
- Key terms and concepts
- What are the basic elements of project management?
Initiation
- High level purpose and outputs
- What is a project charter?
Planning
- High level purpose and outputs
- What is a project management plan?
- Describe elements
- What is the team member’s role in planning a project?
- Essential planning techniques
- Work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Network diagram
- Risk identification introduction and exercise
- Risk response planning introduction and exercise
- Critical path introduction and exercise
- Required skills and gap planning exercise
Executing
- What is project execution?
- High level outputs
- Project management activities
- Team member characteristics
Monitoring and Controlling
- High level purpose and outputs
- Integrated change control exercise
- Schedule compression exercise
Closing Process
- What is closing?
- Final course exercise
- Course wrap-up
PMBOK® Guide is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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