PPM-102 - Principles of Project Management Workshop

Course PPM-102

The Principles of Project Management customized to your terminology, methodology and control documents

Integrate proven techniques with your own project management practices.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline

Introduction

Many companies have their own terms, methodology, and documentation for managing projects. To leverage these standards, Versatile will customize our Principles of Project Management class to teach your employees to manage projects your way. This 3-day course integrates the proven techniques of project management and your project management standards in a hands-on workshop.

The presentation is company-specific. Participants will learn course concepts then immediately apply them to projects for which they are currently responsible. They’ll walk out of class with a draft of that project’s statement of work and a detailed action plan that includes tasks, a network schedule, and a preliminary resource plan.

Benefit from experienced instructors while solving the project problems you struggle with everyday. Learn the power of a work breakdown structure, network diagram, critical path analysis, and resource leveling. Understand how the project lifecycle relates to your development lifecycle.

The course is not a traditional leadership course. But, because anyone in a project management role is in a leadership role, the leadership aspect of each technique is emphasized. Participants learn how the project management tool set enables them to satisfy all their stakeholders — sponsors, management, customers and the project team.

Benefits

• Apply proven project management techniques to your projects.
• Create realistic project schedules.
• Get the most from project management software using the 5 steps of project planning.
• Create effective project plans with clear responsibilities and milestones.
• Identify problems when they are still small enough to solve.
• Transform ambiguous projects into focused, productive projects with tangible results.

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Audience

Anyone associated with projects, from sponsors to team members, benefits from understanding the tools of project management. Project managers and team leaders, managers with multiple projects, and team members with special assignments will get the greatest benefit from this course.

Anyone who needs to use project management software should attend this course prior to attending software training because it will provide a theoretical foundation for any project management software application.

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At Course Completion

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand how project management can increase your productivity, improve communication and cut development costs.
• Systematically apply the proven techniques of project management as defined in your organization to define, plan and control a project.
• Create a project plan using your project management techniques.
• Use the project plan to manage the team, customers, management and project sponsor.
• Understand the relationship between the science of project management and the art of leadership.

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Prerequisites

No prerequisites provided.

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Certified Professional Exams

No exam currently exists for this course.

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Student Materials

The student kit includes a copy of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management and other necessary materials for this class.

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Course Outline

1. Why Project Management?

• Success factors
• What is project management?
• Project life cycle and product life cycle
• Workshop: Selecting projects for the workshop

2. Project Definition

• Identify the project stakeholders
• Write a statement of work
• Project charter
• Workshop: Develop a statement of work

3. Project Planning

• The purpose of planning
• Work breakdown structure
• Workshop: Developing the WBS
• Network diagrams
• Workshop: Creating the network diagram
• Work package estimates
• Critical path analysis
• Workshop: Estimating the work packages
• Scheduling and Gantt Charts
• Resource leveling
• Workshop: Resource leveling the project Project management software
• Accurate estimating
• Workshop: Completion of the project plan

4. Project Control

• Monitoring
• Communication
• Corrective action

5. Project Leadership

• Project manager skills
• Art based on science

6. Lessons Learned from Lectures and Workshop

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