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Project Management Workshop: Essentials, Intermediate, Advanced
Course Number: CT0021-0024-0022
Category: Business Skills
Duration: 3.00 days
Description

This course combines material from the Project Management Essentials, Intermediate, and Advanced courses to create a comprehensive workshop on Project Management.

 

During the first day of training, students will learn to define projects, create a work breakdown structure, develop a project schedule, define a project change control system, estimate costs, and evaluate project performance.

 

During the second day of training, students will learn how to implement quality measures, handle project risks, acquire and motivate team members, and communicate effectively. Course activities cover identifying the characteristics and goals of quality management, create a quality management plan, conduct an audit, develop a quality control system, design a risk management plan, follow a qualitative risk analysis process, create a decision tree, and monitor and control project risks. Students will also discuss the characteristics of a good manager, build and maintain a productive team, and use analysis tools and reports to evaluate the performance of a project.

 

During the third day of training, students will learn about contracts, procurement, solicitation, integration, and the project management process. Course activities will cover discussing types of contracts, identifying the role of procurement planning, soliciting contractors, evaluating proposals, negotiating contracts, developing a project plan, and implementing a work authorization system. Students will also identify process groups and variables, write closeout reports, and identify different methods of project termination.

Prerequisites

None

Outline

Day 1 (Project Management Essentials)

 

  • Define the Project
    • Project Participants
      • Determining Influence of Stakeholders
    • Project Objectives and Planning
      • Identifying Benefits of Project Planning
      • Prioritizing Constraints in a Project
  • Activities and Dependencies
    • Project Activities
      • Creating a WBS
      • Refine Activities
      • Group Activities
    • Sequence Activities
      • Identifying Types of Project Activities
      • Creating a PERT Chart
    • Analyze Activities
      • Determining an Appropriate Level of Detail
      • Creating an Activity Analysis Form
      • Assigning Work
    • Estimate Activities
      • Estimating Project Activities
      • Identifying Problems and Opportunities
    • Sequence Dependencies
      • Sequencing Dependencies
      • Identifying the Effect of Slack
  • Project Scheduling
    • Develop the Project Schedule
      • Identifying Benefits of Schedule Development
      • Understanding Schedule Development Constraints
    • Techniques for Schedule Development
      • Identifying Mathematical Analysis Techniques
      • Understanding Network Diagrams
      • Identifying Arrow Charting Methods
      • Understanding Gantt Charts
    • The CPM and PERT
      • Understanding CPM Scheduling
      • CPM Calculations
      • Understanding Critical Path
      • Understanding Duration Compression
      • Calculating Float
  • Project Change Control
    • Define Project Change Control
      • Understanding Change Control System
      • Accommodating Change
      • Understanding Change Control Board
  • Financial Issues
    • Estimate Costs
      • Analyzing Historical Information
      • Identifying Financial Issues in an Organization
      • Estimating Cost
      • Identifying the Project Budget
      • Understanding Duration Effects On Cost
      • Estimates
      • Identifying Problems While Estimating Costs
  • Project Performance
    • Measure Project Performance
      • Determining Project Performance
      • Using Calculations in Earned Value Analysis
      • Controlling Project Cost
    • Report Project Performance
      • Understanding Project Reports
      • Understanding Progress Reports
      • Understanding Status Reports
      • Understanding Project Costs
      • Closing Projects
      • Understanding Final Project Report

 

Day 2 (Project Management: Intermediate)

 

  • Quality management
    • Fundamentals of quality management
    • Quality planning
  • Quality assurance and control
    • Quality assurance
    • Quality control
  • Risk identification and management
    • Fundamentals of risk management
    • Risk management planning
    • Risk identification
  • Risk analysis, response, and control
    • Qualitative analysis
    • Quantitative analysis
    • Risk response
    • Risk monitoring and control

  • Organizational planning

    • Project managers
    • Organizational planning
  • Staff acquisition and team building
    • Staff acquisition
    • Team building
  • Planning and distributing information
    • Communications planning
    • Distributing information
  • Project performance and conclusion
    • Performance reporting
    • Concluding a project

 

 Day 3 (Project Management: Advanced)

 

  • Procurement planning
    • Fundamentals of contracts
    • Procurement planning
  • Planning, soliciting, and selecting
    • Solicitation planning
    • Selection
  • Contract administration and closeout
    • Contract administration
    • Elements of contract administration
  • Project integration and plan development
    • Integration
    • Project planning
  • Implementing plans and controlling change
    • Topic A: Implementing the plan
    • Topic B: Controlling change
  • Unit 6: The project management process
    • The process
    • Initiation and planning
  • Execution, control, and project closeout
    • Project execution
    • Controlling a project
    • Closing a project