Description

Effective project management is essential for ensuring clarity, minimizing risks, controlling costs, and delivering significant value to the organization. In this 3 day course, you will gain hands-on experience with core project management principles, developing a deep understanding of best practices. You’ll learn how to assess a project’s business case, identify key stakeholders and their roles, gather product+ project requirements, and establish quality standards to lead the project to successful completion. Focus on defining project scope to enhance clarity, and use methodologies to break down project deliverables.

Learn to manage projects within the defined budget and timeline by addressing changes, handling risks, and managing assumptions and constraints. Continuously track project progress to ensure business value delivery, and master the techniques to close a project effectively.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand impact of core project management competencies and on project success.
• Explore the different approaches to implementing projects (predictive versus adaptive)
• Define project goals and assumptions, laying the foundation for value driven outcomes.
• Build a project charter that includes clearly defined product scope.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to support the scope and delivery.
• Understand the requirements elicitation process and support required.
• Learn how to identify stakeholders and develop strategies for effective engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform risk analysis using a structured approach.
• Design a practical communication plan that addresses stakeholder informational needs.
• Address change management requests and activities.
• Track value and outcomes of project delivery.
• Understand the benefits and application of project retrospectives and lessons learned.

Modules:

1. Evaluate a project business case
   1. Determine goals, outcomes and scope
2. Stakeholder management
   1. Identify and assess stakeholders
   2. Build a stakeholder registry
3. Develop a communication plan
4. Define product scope
   1. Product versus project scope
   2. In scope / out of scope
   3. High level requirements
5. Project charter
   1. Define criteria of the project
   2. Establish working agreements
6. Create WBS
7. Risk identification and management
   1. Create a risk register
   2. Determine mitigation and contingency plans
8. Budgeting
   1. Estimation Approaches
   2. Cost Baselines

9. Change management
   1. Change management process
   2. Change Requests
   3. Change Control
10. Use metrics to evaluate project success
11. Lessons learned and close out of project

Audience:

• Team members leading or actively participating in projects or change management within an organization.
• Project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project team members, subject matter experts, analysts, stakeholders, and senior managers who want to get more out of their project teams
• Leaders who want to understand project management benefits, expectations, tools, and techniques.