Project Management Fundamentals

Course Description

In this 3-day Project Management training course, you will learn not only the fundamentals, but also best practices of project management through hands-on, real-world exercises. Understand how to deliver business value by assessing a project’s business case, by identifying stakeholders and their relationship to your project, capturing product requirements, and establishing quality metrics to guide the development of your product and reassess the business case.

Define product scope to provide clarity for project delivery and create a work breakdown structure to define project scope for the team. Manage your project within the planned budget and schedule by managing change and identifying and managing risks, assumptions, and constraints. Track the delivery of business value and close projects out cleanly.

By the end of this Project Management training course, you will have gained a good understanding and experience of the core competencies that make a successful project manager.

Objectives
Upon successful completion of the Project Management Fundamentals Training Course, you will be able to:

• Articulate the relevance of core project management competences.

• Identify key project goals and assumptions and set the stage for value delivery.

• Understand how to identify stakeholders and assess how to engage with them during the project.

• Meet stakeholder informational needs by creating an actionable communication plan.

• Articulate product scope as part of the charter.

• Become familiar with the process of eliciting and capturing requirements.

• Create the WBS and dictionary that would deliver the scope in the project charter.

• Perform a more detailed and systematic assessment of risk.

• Articulate guiding quality characteristics for the project.

• Sequence activities, create schedule, and estimate the cost of the project.

• Manage change in projects.

• Track value delivery in projects.

• Understand the basics of a project retrospective.

What you will learn

1. Match competence to scenario

2. Evaluate a project business case

3. Identify and assess stakeholders

· Stakeholders

· Resource management

· Teams

4. Develop a communication plan

5. Define product scope · Project charter · Product and project scope

6. Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements · Requirements

7. Create WBS and dictionary

· Work

· Work breakdown structure

8. Create risk register

· Risk identification and management

9. Establish quality metrics

10. Create an initial schedule and budget

· Effort and duration

· Estimating effort

· Level of accuracy in estimates

· Team-based estimation

· Scheduling

· Estimating cost

11. Review and disposition a change request

· Change management

12. Use metrics to reassess the business case

· Delivering business value

13. Close out a project

Course: Project Management Fundamentals

$2,385.00

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If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.