Course description
The Project Management Boot Camp covers all aspects of project management: project planning, project execution, close out, organizational structures, team building, and conflict management. The Project Management Boot Camp bundles three courses into one, 5-day program: Project Planning for Success (3 days), Project Execution and Control (1 day), and Managing People and Projects (1 day).
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Training content
Introduction
- Corporate Positioning for Project Management
- Key Concepts and Definitions
- Benefits
- Project Management & People
- Project Lifecycle Concepts
- The Matrix Approach
- Project Planning & Control Process
- Corporate Planning Considerations
- Project Management Methodology
Project Level Risk analysis
- Risk Management Components
- Risk Planning
- Identification
- Qualitative Assessment
- Risk Response
- Quantitative Assessment
- Workshop Discussion: Risk
Project Initiation
- Initiative Identification
- Project Definition
- Initial Project Charter
- Charter Workshop
- Key Stakeholder Analysis
- Discussion Workshop
- Business Case/Feasibility Study
Scope Definition
- Developing the Project Charter
- Workshop: Project Charter
- Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
- Developing the Responsibility List
- Workshop: Work Breakdown Structure
Work Package Planning (Project Deliverables)
- Defining the Work Package
- Estimating Human Resources and Other
- Requirements
- Work Package Schedule
- Work Package Budget
- Workshops: Work Package Planning
Schedule Planning
- Steps to Develop the Schedule
- Selection of a Scheduling Technique
- CPM Barcharting
- Scheduling Exercises
- Workshop: Scheduling
- Traditional and Time Critical Scheduling
- Schedule and Resource Analysis
- Shortening the Schedule
Budget Planning
- Determining Budget Requirements
- Developing a Performance Budget
- Workshop: Budgeting
Facilitating Processes
- Risk Management in the Planning Phase
- Communications Management in the Planning Phase
- Quality Management in the Planning Phase
- Procurement Management in the Planning Phase
- Human Resource Management in the Planning Phase
Completing the Plan
- Negotiating Differences
- Updating the Project Charter and Obtain
- Project Plan Approval
- Preparing to Implement the Project Plan
- Workshop: Completing the Plan
- Team Presentations: The Project Plan
Implementing the Plan for Execution
- Optimizing the Project Plan
- Optimization Dashboard
- Establishing the Project Baseline
- Metrics for Project Control
- Transition from Planning to Execution
- Project Kick-Off
- Team Mobilization
- Administering the Project
- Project Workbook
- Project Repository
- Issues Management
- Project Update Process
Project Execution and Control
- Project Scope Control
- Change Process Model
- Time and Cost Control
- Earned Value Analysis
- Updating Process
- Work Package Level
- Project Level
- Trend Analysis
- Performance Reporting
- Execution and Control of Facilitating Processes
- Transition from planning to execution
- Project kick-off and team mobilization
- Administering the project
- Project Workbook, Project Repository, Issues Management, Project Update Process
Project closure
- Project Close Out Process
- Project Assessment/Evaluation
- Administrative Closeout
- Project Close Out Report
Project organizations
- Project Personnel Titles
- The Basic Project Organization
- Types of Project Organizational Structures
- Comparison of Approaches
- Full Team
- Matrix Team
- The Project Office
- Workshop: Project Organization
Leadership of the team
- Leadership Principles
- Managing Multi-Cultural, Multi-Language
- Team Members
- Workshop: Group Discussion on Leadership
Communications
- Communications Audiences
- Communications Media
- Communications Impact
Conflict Management
- Impacts of Conflict
- Modes of Conflict Management
- Workshop: Group Discussion on Conflict
Running Project Meetings
Corporate Project organization Issues
- Project Steering Committees
- The Project Management Office
Portfolio Management
Team Building
- Definition of a Team
- Barriers to Team Building
Conclusion & Wrap Up
Course delivery details
Course objectives
By the completion of the seminar, participants will:
- Understand the 5 key steps to project planning.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of key project personnel, including the project manager.
- Learn how to develop a project charter.
- Discover how to scope a project with emphasis on the work breakdown structure.
- Learn how to schedule and budget a project.
- Understand how to optimize the project plan and establish the project baseline.
- Discover how to manage scope changes, issues, assumptions, earned value and project performance trends.
- Learn how to manage risk, communications, quality, and team performance.
- Understand how to close out the project.
- Identify the best project team structure, given the needs and priorities of the sponsoring organization.
- Appreciate the importance of communications, team building and conflict management.
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