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 requirements, and establish quality standards to steer the project to successful completion. Focus on defining project scope to enhance team clarity, and use a work breakdown structure to guide 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.

Upon completion of this course, you will be well-equipped with the essential skills and knowledge to become a proficient and successful project manager.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the importance of key project management competencies and their impact on project success.
• Define essential project objectives and assumptions, laying the foundation for value-driven outcomes.
• Learn how to identify stakeholders and develop strategies for effective engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Design a practical communication plan that addresses the informational needs of all stakeholders.
• Clearly define the product scope within the project charter.
• Gain hands-on experience in eliciting and documenting project requirements.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and dictionary to support the scope outlined in the project charter

Outline:

1: Match competence to scenario
2: Evaluate a project business case
3: Identify and assess stakeholders

• Stakeholders
• Resource management
• Teams

4: Develop a communication plan
5: Define product scope

• Project charter
• Product and project scope

6: Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements

• Requirements

7: Create WBS and dictionary

• Work
• Work breakdown structure

8: Create risk register

• Risk identification and management

9: Establish quality metrics
10: Create an initial schedule and budget

• Effort and duration
• Estimating effort
• Level of accuracy in estimates
• Team-based estimation
• Scheduling
• Estimating cost

11: Review and disposition a change request

• Change management

12: Use metrics to reassess the business case

• Delivering business value

13: Close out a project