Project Management Fundamentals Training Class
Duration: 2 Days
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Overview:
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our 2-day, hands-on Project Management Fundamentals course provides an introduction to the project management lifecycle and practical experience with the tools and techniques of project management. Students learn how to initiate, plan, monitor, control, and closeout projects more effectively. This training provides practical skills, concepts, and principles that can be taken back to the job and implemented right away.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Understand the concept of project management and basic project management terminology.
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Define the project management life cycle and the key project management processes.
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Recognize the characteristics, skills, roles and responsibilities of a project manager.
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Identify the key steps of project initiation and authorization, recognizing the key elements needed for documentation to carry forward to the scope definition process.
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Understand the importance of proper project work scope definition and planning, and its impact on the future of the project, and create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
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Perform detailed planning including defining the elements of a project model, creating a project model, and understanding the Critical Path Method (CPM).
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Understand resource management inputs, results and options for issue resolution.
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Describe the importance of project communication and create a Communication Management Plan.
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Recognize the elements and process of risk management, including basic definitions, the resource management plan, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning and monitoring and create a Risk Register.
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Create and manage the project scope, schedule and cost baselines, including understanding the importance of change management.
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Track the status of a project during project execution and measure performance impacts.
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Close out a project by collecting pertinent project data, closing out contracts, and collecting lessons learned.