Course Outline

1 – Project Context

• Projects, Products, and Processes
• Project Management Challenges
• Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
• Organizational Context
• Definition of Project Success
• Notes: Workshop Activities with Breakout Group Exercises Integrated Throughout Course Outline

2 – Project Approach

• Predictive and Adaptive Approaches
• Review of Agile
• Applying What Works to Your Environment

3 – Partnering with Stakeholders

• Identifying Stakeholders
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Key Project Roles
• RACI Diagrams Exercise

4 – Starting a Project

• Project Prioritization and Selection Process
• Project Charters
• Developing a Charter Exercise

5 – Planning a Project

• Plan a Project Exercise
• The PM Plan Components
• The Triple+ Constraints

6 – Defining Project Scope

• The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Creating a WBS Example

7 – Defining and Estimating Activities

• Getting to Activities from the WBS
• Defining Activities Exercise
• Effort and Duration
• Estimating Techniques
• Estimating Resources
• Roll Wave Planning
• Estimating Activities Exercise

8 – Developing the Project Schedule

• Sequencing Activities
• Dependencies, Leads, and Lags
• The Critical Path and Float
• Schedule Compression
• Schedule Formats
• Developing a Budget
• Creating a Partial Schedule and Budget Exercise

9 – Planning Project Communications

• Project Communication Challenges and Best Practices
• Analyzing Stakeholder Communication Needs
• Tailoring Stakeholder Communications
• Communications Matrix
• Creating a Project Communications Plan Exercise

10 – Planning Project Risk Management

• Roles and Responsibilities in Risk Management
• Risk Identification Challenges
• Identifying Risks: Knowns and Unknowns
• Contingency Reserves
• Risk Analysis
• Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
• Risk Triggers
• Risk Registers
• Planning Risk Responses
• Creating Risk Register Exercise

11 – Executing a Project

• Leading and Managing Projects
• Team Development – Tuckman Model
• Building Trust
• Sustaining Stakeholder Engagement

12 – Overseeing and Controlling the Project

• Risks of Scope Creep and Gold Plating
• Changing Control Approaches
• Tracking and Reporting
• Monitoring Various Aspects of the Project
• Project Monitoring and Controlling Top 10
• Identifying Project Tracking Requirements Exercise

13 – Closing a Project

• Checklist for Closing
• Lessons Learned
• Celebrating

14 – Wrap-Up

• Parking Lot Review
• New Ideas, Confirmations, and Takeaways