Fundamentals of Managing Projects
Competency: Managing Projects
Duration: Three days
MAJOR COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course is designed to enable participants to:
Participants completing this workshop will gain or enhance their skills in:
Competency: Managing Projects
Duration: Three days
Fundamentals of Managing Projects is designed to introduce the processes and techniques of project management to better prepare for working in a project environment. This workshop takes participants step-by-step through the fundamentals of project management PLUS provides hands-on applications of the fundamentals through team exercises. After the two-day workshop, the participants choose a work-related project, complete a Project Charter, WBS and schedule which they bring to class on day three (3-4 weeks later). This provides the participants to put into practice the skills learned in the two-day workshop.
MAJOR COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course is designed to enable participants to:
- Determine project objectives and requirements from the scope of work
- Identify triple constraints and prioritize
- Develop a project charter from class scenario
- Create a WBS from class project scenario
- From WBS, generate a network diagram and Gantt chart
- Discuss various project management tools for creating Gantt charts
- Analyze all resource conflicts from project tasks and resource information
- Determine the risks in order to develop a risk matrix
- Participate in a forward and backward pass exercise
- Investigate various ways to communicate within an organization and analyze a Communication Matrix
- Analyze and discuss the necessity for roles, team building and motivation
- Produce a Project Charter on a work related project
Participants completing this workshop will gain or enhance their skills in:
- Having the ability to create a Project Charter based on a current work-related project
- Having the ability to create a WBS, the heart of project management
- Differentiate which project management practices are suitable for one’s organization’s need
- Striving to understand project management practices by participating in relevant exercises
- Creating a Communication Matrix essential for projects successes
- Understanding risks of a project and applying qualitative and quantitative measures for each risk