Project Management Course Modules
Delivered through lectures, group discussions, and individual and group exercises, this comprehensive course covers every aspect of project management – initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and finally closing the project. With new projects often representing significant expense and high risk, project owners seek the assurance that practitioners have the knowledge, experience, and skills to bring high performing projects to successful completion.
1. Introduction & Project Fundamentals
What to expect from the course and how it will be graded. Define a project, programme, and portfolio. Understand project lifecycles.
- Introductions
- Walkthrough of the course
- Project and exam requirements
- Definitions: project, programme, and portfolio
- Project lifecycles
2. Project Environment & the Role of the Project Manager
Understand the different environments in which projects operate and the impact they have on project success. Define the role of the project manager and understand their sphere of influence.
- Operations vs. projects
- Project lifecycles and processes
- Project phases and phase gates
- Organisation structures and roles
- Sphere of influence and competencies
- Leadership vs. management
3. Project Integration
Introduction to project processes and how we identify and co-ordinate these processes and project management activities into process groups. Learn to identify interdependencies between project management knowledge areas.
- Developing a project charter
- Initial development of project plans
- Directing and managing project work
- Monitoring and controlling project work
- Performing integrated change control
- Closing a project or phase
4. Scope Management
Define project and product scope and their differences. Identify how scope interacts with areas such as cost and schedule. Understand how to collect requirements to create a work breakdown structure.
- Product scope vs. project scope
- Scope interactions
- Scope planning
- Collecting requirements
- The work breakdown structure
- Validating and controlling scope
5. Schedule Management
Define project schedules and differentiate them from project plans. Identify and sequence activities and estimate their duration. Discover scheduling tools and learn how to control and remediate a schedule.
- Schedule planning
- Defining and sequencing activities
- Estimating activity durations
- Developing a schedule using tools
- Controlling a schedule
6. Cost Management
Differentiate between cost and schedule management. Learn to estimate and forecast costs and measure and correct variance. Understand contingency and management reserves, earned and planned value, and preventing cost variance.
- Cost vs. schedule management
- Planning cost management
- Estimating and forecasting costs
- Contingency vs. management reserves
- Earned and planned value management
- Measuring and interpreting cost variance
7. Resource Management
Define and plan project resource management. Discover activity estimation techniques. Understand the project manager’s responsibility for acquiring, developing, managing, and controlling resources.
- Planning resource management
- Estimating activities
- Acquiring resources
- Developing, managing, and controlling resources
8. Communication Management
Develop a project communication plan. Identify and manage communication channels. Understand how to manage and control project communications.
- Communication plan management
- Communication channels
- Managing and controlling communications
9. Risk Management
Understand the relationship between risk, opportunity, and threats. Identify risk factors and attitudes. Plan for risk through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. Document risk responses and monitor and control risks.
- Risk, opportunity, and threats
- Risk factors and attitudes
- Risk planning and identification
- Qualitative vs quantitative risk analysis
- Risk responses
- Monitoring and controlling risk
10. Stakeholder Management
Understand how to identify all project stakeholders. Plan stakeholder engagement using a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. Create a stakeholder register.
- Identifying stakeholders
- Planning stakeholder engagement
- Stakeholder register
- Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix
11. Introduction to Agile Project Management Practices
The history of agile project management, including the Agile Manifesto. Contrast definable work with high uncertainty work. Understand iterative, predictive, incremental, and agile lifecycles. Face delivery challenges in an agile environment.
- The Agile Manifesto
- Definable and high uncertainty work
- Iterative, predictive, incremental, and agile lifecycles
- Creating an agile environment
- Delivering in an agile environment
12. Agile Practices Part 2 & Revision
Measuring progress in an agile environment. Organisation considerations when working in an agile environment. Revision for final exam.
- Delivering in an agile environment (cont.)
- Revision for final exam
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Is this course right for me?
Our industry-focused project management course is ideal for career-minded professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who wish to apply project management skills and methodology to their role.
You are likely to already have some project management experience. You may be:
A business executive
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A team leader
A business owner
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If you'd like to learn more about being a project manager, read our article: What is Project Management?
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