Project Management is a proven strategy for success, no matter the industry. Project management methodology breaks down complex projects into manageable pieces of work, allowing for efficient and effective management of small and large-scale projects, conserving time, money and resources. This dynamic session takes you through project scheduling and reporting, communication planning, selecting and managing resources, and managing changes in project scope. 

Build an awareness and understanding of the principal components of project management concepts, processes and best practices. Receive tips, tools and techniques to implement at the workplace. Learn how to effective plan, start and finish a project on track, on time and within budget.

Certificate: This course is part of a Certificate Series, should you choose to enroll in the series and receive 15% discount.  Click HERE for details

Learning Objectives:

• Understand project management methodology
• Learn to accurately track and prioritize project components
• Confidently estimate costs and schedules
• Effectively communicate with project team members
• Define the Project Manager stages and standard deliverables
• Draft a project Plan for a small project containing: goals, deliverables, acceptance criteria, risks, work plans and schedule
• Identify standards and procedures used to manage project issues, changes in scope and project communication planning

Course Outline:

Introductions

• Determine participants’ learning objectives
• Set expectations for the course

Project Management Overview

• Define the common components of Project Management
• A definition:
  • Success characteristics – challenges to success
  • What Project Management can and cannot do
• Standard phase of the Project Management life cycle:
  • A high-level overview of each stage
  • Project Management deliverables for each stage
  • The overlapping of each stage
• Interdependencies between time, cost, deliverable quality and resources

 Project Planning

• Project goals-linking project goals with the organizational strategies and developing Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic and Time-bound goals.
• Scope – the boundaries of what is included and excluded in a project
• Goals
• Deliverables
• Acceptance Criteria
• Risks – identification, assessment and risk management
• Milestones – determining when the major milestones of the project should occur to keep the project on track including: identifying project dependencies
• Roles & Responsibilities

Standards & Procedures – (common agreements on how the team will work together)

• Issues Management – definition of issues, criteria for determining what is an issue, roles and responsibilities in issue management and the use of an issue log
• Change Management – definition of a change (and scope creep), the difference between issues and changes, roles and responsibilities in change management, the use of a change log and the change lifecycle
• Communication Plan - determining who needs project information, why when, and how they need it

Action Planning – turning training into action, identifying specific key actions that each individual can take to implement the learning (this is done throughout the course and finalized here)

Target Audience: New project managers working in any industry; individuals interested in project management general knowledge.

Additional Resources:

• Project Management Institute^®
• Project Management Institute^® Northeast Ohio Chapter
• Project Management Professional (PMP)^®

The Project Management Institute and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.