Foundation in Project Management

• Use a project charter to build a strong project foundation
• Identify and manage key stakeholders
• Develop a well-defined scope and requirements
• Build a comprehensive schedule and budget
• Maintain the integrity of project baselines with change control and proactive risk management
• Manage the project team
• Deliver meaningful status reports
• Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations
• Forecast project outcomes
• Engineer a successful deployment
• Manage the entire project to optimize realization of post-project business value

• Sources of project success and failure
• Impact of the project environment
• Essential PM Concepts
• Project and product lifecycles
• Project roles
• Optimizing project value

• Value of viewing the project as an investment
• The project selection process
• The Business Case and Project Charter
• Defining project and business objectives
• Importance of establishing preliminary scope boundaries
• Keeping scope, time, and cost in balance
• Identifying, analyzing and managing stakeholders
• Importance of stakeholder participation
• Creating useful estimates of time and cost
• Building a strong project foundation

• Defining Scope: WBS and the Scope Statement
• The requirements engagement: Developing correct and complete requirements
• Scheduling and the Critical Path
• Resource planning: choosing the right team; ensuring stakeholder engagement
• Developing and tracking an effective, time-phased budget
• Procurement and contracts; avoiding procurement pitfalls
• Quality planning; the test plan; quality audits
• The Communication Plan; effective meetings
• Proactive management of Threats and Opportunities
• Recognizing when Organizational Adoption is needed
• Setting project baselines
• Planning for long-term project value

• Building deliverables; monitoring project work
• Managing the team; team building; team success factors
• Managing stakeholder engagement and expectations
• Testing project deliverables
• Delivering useful status reports
• Forecasting with Earned Value Management
• Preventing scope creep: Tools and methods of change control
• Managing project baselines
• Transition planning: preparing for deployment to the customer
• Executing the Transition Plan

• Executing the Business Value plan
• Ensuring effective utilization of deliverables
• Measuring project success
• Contract and administrative closure
• Lessons Learned and continual improvement
• Celebration

• A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
• You have the option of using your own, ongoing project as the focus of class exercises. As a result, not only do you gain experience with the tools, but you also learn more about your project.
• We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future projects.
• If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
• You will receive a Participant Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.

• This course confirms the importance of keeping focus on the realization of Business Value throughout the project.
• You have the option of using your own, ongoing project as the focus of class exercises. As a result, not only do you gain experience with the tools, but you also learn more about your project.
• If you are new to project management, the exercises in this course will give you hands on experience with all of the primary techniques required to manage a project.
• Experienced project managers will obtain a vocabulary and framework that lends structure and perspective to the wealth of experience they already have.
• All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.
• Take this course and learn how to avoid the problems that project managers most often encounter.

• Controlling Project Risk: Managing Threats and Promoting Opportunities
• Controlling Change to Scope and Requirements
• Building and Managing Project Budgets

• Instructor slides
• Instructor manual with timing guide
• Printed participant guide
• Train the Trainer instruction
• Written for classroom or virtual delivery