Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components

• Understanding what project management is
• Defining project and product life cycles
• Understanding Best Practice Project Management
• How to Initiate a Project: - How to do it
• Managing the project selection process
• Writing SMART objectives and business cases

Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements

• Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs,
• Defining the project management
• Understand how to collect requirements
• Defining the full project scope
• Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures

Creating and Managing the Project Schedule and Budget

• Understanding what a realistic schedule is
• Defining and managing dependencies
• How to estimate project durations and costs
• Creating and optimizing the project schedule
• Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
• How to control the cost, schedule and resources

Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement

• Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
• Presenting and defining the project resource plan
• Developing a communication plan
• Managing Virtual Teams
• Understanding and reviewing project risk
• Managing the project contract against project constraints

Working, controlling and closing the project

• Using project software to track projects
• Dealing with project management problems
• Project case reviews and discussion
• Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
• Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
• Lessons learned, why, when and what