The Complete Course on Project Management

Day One

The World of Project Management

• Project lifecycle model
• Classic and modern project constraints and parameters
• The concept of project management maturity
• Selecting projects to meet organizational goals
• Aggregating projects into programs and portfolios
• Establishing a project support office
• Considering and confronting uncertainty in project selection decisions
• Project data, information and knowledge management
• The art, science, and practice of project management
• Case Studies and Group Exercises

Day Two

Project Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting

• Project plan vs. Project planning
• Strategic, tactical and operational planning
• The contents of a project plan
• Level of detail in scheduling
• Network logic and dependency analysis
• Project uncertainty and risk management
• Introducing uncertainty in planning
• Fundamentals of budgeting & cost control
• Methods of budgeting
• Improving cost estimates
• Best practices of project planning, scheduling, and budgeting
• Case Studies and Group Exercises

Day Three

Project Resourcing, Monitoring, and Control

• Resource allocation
• Expediting a project
• Allocating scarce resources to projects
• The Critical Chain approach
• Designing the monitoring cycle
• Performance indicators and feedback mechanisms
• Earned value management
• Designing the change-control system
• Proactive management and plan updating
• Case Studies and Group Exercises

Day Four

The Project Manager’s Roles and Responsibilities

• Selection of the Project Manager
• Project Team-building and empowerment
• Team management challenges
• Delegating with confidence
• Communication within the project team
• Project team leadership
• Multidisciplinary teams
• Conflict handling
• Best practices of people-based project management
• Case Studies and Group Exercises

Day Five

Project Evaluation, Reporting, Closure, and Hand-over

• Evaluation criteria
• Project auditing
• Project review meetings
• Analyzing project performance
• Progress reports and records
• Determinants of project success
• Successful project hand-over
• Lessons learned and creating a learning culture
• Best practices of project evaluation, reporting, and closure