Project Management for Professionals

Overview

This course is specifically designed for Middle and Senior Managers, Program and Project Directors, writing to acquire practical techniques aligned with global best practices to meet their corporate goals and enhance the visibility of their projects.

Project Management is based on lead, innovate and build theme, where participants will interact and hands-on their challenges and will create the solutions

  • Learn how to implement PMI concepts in your organization
  • Equip yourself with Project Templates
  • Understand the global Project Management Standard
  • Learn the Project Initiation activities
  • Hands on Project Planning Activities
  • Perform Project Execution Activities
  • Create Project Status Report

Learning Outcome

  • Learn how to achieve your business goals through project management practices
  • Differentiate your strategic initiatives as projects or programs for effective implementation
  • Build your project lifecycle that fits your project environment
  • Draft your communication strategy with dashboards and scorecards
  • Shape your skills as effective Project Manager for Successful validation of project results
  • Learn how to implement PMI concepts in your organization
  • Equip yourself with Project Templates
  • Understand the global Project Management Standard
  • Learn the Project Initiation activities
  • Hands on Project Planning Activities
  • Perform Project Execution Activities
  • Create Project Status Report

COURSE OUTLINE

Defining the knowledge areas and process groups

  • Outlining process groups and knowledge areas
  • Evaluating the standard for managing projects

Investigating Project Integration and Scope

Integrating the PMBOK processes

  • Developing the project charter
  • Coordinating content of the project management plan
  • Performing project work
  • Controlling changes throughout the project

Defining and managing project scope

  • Defining and facilitating stakeholder requirements
  • Developing detailed project and product descriptions
  • Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Verifying and controlling the scope baseline

Managing Schedule and Budget  

Completing the project on time

  • Defining and sequencing activities
  • Estimating activity resources and durations
  • Developing and controlling the schedule

Planning and managing the project cost

  • Developing project budgets
  • Applying earned value management (EVM) basics
  • Managing changes to the cost baseline

Addressing Project Quality

 Quality planning

  • Identifying project quality standards and requirements
  • Determining project quality activities
  • Demonstrating compliance with quality approach

Quality assurance and control

  • Ensuring adherence to quality guidelines
  • Monitoring and measuring quality results

Human Resource, Communication and Procurement Processes

Identifying roles, responsibilities and skills

  • Utilizing hierarchical and matrix charts (RAM & RACI)
  • Enhancing project performance through team development and improved competencies
  • Tracking team member performance

Ensuring timely project communication

  • Determining stakeholder information needs
  • Distributing information and addressing issues
  • Collecting and distributing project performance data

Procurement management

  • Planning project procurement and identifying sellers
  • Obtaining seller responses and awarding contracts
  • Managing procurement relationships
  • Monitoring contract performance
  • Completing each project procurement

Risk and Stakeholder Management

Identifying project risks

  • Assessing and documenting risks
  • Performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
  • Planning appropriate risk responses

Monitoring and controlling risks

  • Tracking identified risks and risk triggers
  • Reevaluating existing risks and identifying new ones
  • Implementing risk response plans as required

Managing Stakeholders

  • Identifying internal and external project stakeholders
  • Managing stakeholder expectations