Outlines

 

 

 

Project Management and the Big Picture

 

• Defining what a project is – and is not

• Understanding Projects, Programs, Portfolios, and how they relate to Organizational Strategy

• Defining project management and the project lifecycle

• Types of organizational structures - Functional, Projectized, Weak, Balanced & Strong matrix

• Identifying, analyzing and engaging the project stakeholders

 

Project Integration Management

 

• Writing the project charter – Purpose, contents

• Developing the Project Management Plan

• The process of execution

• The process of monitoring and controlling

• Using Integrated change control

• Change requests - Corrective, preventive

• Closing out the project

• Administrative closure

• Organizational processes assets

• Lessons Learned

 

Planning the Project

 

• Collecting Project requirements

• Planning and defining the total project scope

• Creating the WBS - Scope decomposition, Work packages, WBS dictionary

• Identifying project activities

• Estimating activity durations and resources

• Analogous, Bottom Up, Parametric, Three-point estimates

• Developing the project schedule

• Network Diagrams (PDMs), Dependencies & relationships

• Estimating the project costs

• Activity costs, Project budget, Cash flow analysis

 

Monitoring and Controlling the Project

 

• Understanding Scope creep, Gold plating

• Controlling the project schedule

• Crashing, Fast tracking

• Controlling the project costs

• Earned Value analysis, communicating project performance

Who Should Attend

Duration

5 Days