Basic Project Management

The course “Basic Project Management”, introduces the participants to the “Art of Project Management”. It provides the participants with the necessary vocabulary, definitions and terms and terminology. The course guides the participants through a project in 10 easy to implement steps combining theory and practical applications. After completing the course, the participants will be able to apply their freshly obtained knowledge in their day-to-day jobs.

Project Management has become a need for any company to survive in these fast changing times. Successful projects drive companies and determine their success over other companies.

This course follows the PMI standards and terminology. It is a practical application of how project should be run to be successful. Training has been defined as a major contributor towards project success of projects. This training will provide you all you have to do in a logical and step by step approach.

The Basic Project Management course starts with evaluating where projects come from and how projects are selected. This is followed by definitions of important terminology every project manager should know about and after the introduction of the project management process and life cycle, the projects is divided in 10 logical steps that will help you to make your projects a success.

Projects and the Project Management environment change constantly. Project Managers have to adjust to these changes constantly. Since the industry went "lean", the lean revolution also influenced projects and project management. Lean principles have changed the way projects are done today. Project Management was typically done in a deterministic way, using waterfall, and that lead to problems in many projects. A deterministic approach is NOT flexible and changes are discouraged, complex and even avoided even when they would be necessary. The deterministic approach has lead to project disasters in a specific type of projects. In an adaptive approach, lean approach, projects are managed differently, there is more freedom to manage changes.

Content

-       Introducing Project Management Definitions, Terms and Terminologies

-       The Project Management Process and Life cycle

-       Define the project

-       Generate Tasks

-       Determine Resources, Roles and Responsibilities and Develop estimates

-       Define Task Interdependencies and Analyze Critical Path

-       Develop Schedule

-       Perform Resource Loading and Leveling

-       Generate Project Budget

-       Uncertainty and Risks in Projects

-       Develop Risk Management Plan

-       Project Execution, Follow up and Reporting

-       Project Close-Out Phase and lessons learned

-       Case studies/Exercises

-       Final Test

-       Certificate of Completion

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Define and describe what a project is and what the major steps are to define, plan, execute, monitor & control and close out a project

• Paraphrase the main terminology related to projects according to the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition, 2017

• List the main steps in the project life cycle: define, plan, execute, monitor and control and close out

• Decompose a project and create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and identify tasks to complete

• Create a project schedule using the Precedence Diagramming Method, calculate and interpret the critical path

• Allocate resources to Activities and calculate duration and cost of individual tasks

• Calculate the time phased and cumulative budget and S-curve

• Determine the critical path position of the project

• Identify, Qualify and Quantify Project Risks

• Create a risk management plan

• List advantages and disadvantages of projects

• Apply the tools and techniques on an in-class project and projects in their company