DAY ONE
The Project Management Framework:
- Purpose of the PMBOK Guide
- What is a Project?
- What is Project Management?
- Relationship to Other Management Disciplines
- Project Management Context
Project Life Cycle and Organization:
- Project Phases and the Project Life Cycle
- Project Stakeholders
- Organizational Structures and Influences
- Key General Management Skills
The Standard for Project Management of a Project
The Project Management Processes for a Project:
- Project Management Processes
- Project Management Process Groups
- Process Interactions
- Project Management Process Mapping
- Initiating Process Group
- Planning Process Group
- Executing Process Group
- Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
- Closing Process Group
The Project Management Nine (9) Knowledge Areas
- Process Flow Diagram
- Major Project Documents
Module 1: Project Integration Management
This section addresses the critical project management functions that ensure co-ordination of the various elements of a project. The Project Integration Management knowledge area includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups. The integrative project management processes include:
- Develop Project Charter
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Direct and Manage Project Execution
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Perform Integrated Change Control
- Close Project or Phase
DAY TWO
Module 2: Project Scope Management
This section covers a diverse, yet fundamental set of project management topics including collect requirements, define scope, create WBS, verify scope, and the control scope. Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
- Collect requirements
- Define scope
- Create WBS
- Verify scope
- Control scope
Module 3: Project Time Management
This section is focused on the CPM, PERT, critical path and precedence diagramming methods of planning, the differences between these techniques and the appropriate circumstances for the use of each. Project Time Management includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project. It includes the following processes:
- Define Activities
- Sequence Activities
- Estimate Activity Resources
- Estimate Activity Durations
- Develop Schedule
- Control Schedule
DAY THREE
Module 4: Project Cost Management
This section addresses cost management from a project manager’s perspective. The cost module addresses a broad range of cost issues for example: S curves, cost estimating and capital budgeting. Project Cost Management includes the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
- Estimate Costs
- Determine Budget
- Control Costs
Module 5: Project Quality Management
This section focuses heavily on customer satisfaction and the continuous improvement through the use of quality tools. Project Quality Management processes include all the activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
- Plan Quality
- Perform Quality Assurance
- Perform Quality Control
DAY FOUR
Module 6: Project Human Resource Management
This section focuses heavily on organizational structures, roles and responsibilities of the project manager, team building and conflict resolution. Project Human Resource Management includes the processes that organize and manage the project team. The project team is comprised of the people who have assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project. The type and number of project team members can often change as the project progresses. Project team members can be referred to as the project’s staff.
- Develop Human Resource Plan
- Acquire Project Team
- Develop Project Team
- Manage Project Team
Module 7: Project Communications Management
This section focuses on both the formal and the informal communication that occurs on projects, verbal versus written communication, conflict resolution and management styles. Project Communication Management is the knowledge area that employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. The processes provide the critical links among people and information that are necessary for successful communications.
- Identify Stakeholders
- Plan Communications
- Distribute Information
- Manage Stakeholder Expectations
- Report Performance
DAY FIVE
Module 8: Project Risk Management
Project Risk Management includes the processes concerned with plan risk management, identify risks, perform qualitative risk analysis, perform quantitative risk analysis, plan risk responses. The objectives of Project Risk Management are to increase the probability and impact of positive events, and decrease the probability and impact of events adverse to the project.
- Plan Risk Management
- Identify Risks
- Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Plan Risk Responses
- Monitor and Control Risks
Module 9: Project Procurement Management
This section deals with categories of contracts and the risks inherent in specific contract types for both the buyer and the seller. Project Procurement Management includes the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services, or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work.
- Plan Procurements
- Conduct Procurements
- Administer Procurements
- Close Procurements
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