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Project Management for Teams

The Challenge
The project team is the engine that makes the project move. Every team gathers requirements, designs and builds the product and executes delivery to the customer. But truly effective teams do much more. They fine tune estimates to ensure that project budget and schedule are realistic. They help the customer to define quality and then build that quality into the product. They are intent on delivering accurate status reports. They understand the need to control scope, ensuring that all proposed changes get adequate review. They are the face of the project to the customer and carry the load of ensuring customer satisfaction. It is essential that all members of the project team understand the basic project management procedures at work in their project so that they can fully support them.

The Solution
This course helps project team members focus on the specific steps they can take to make their projects successful. Through a one day series of lectures and short exercises Project Management for Teams gives participants a much better understanding of why projects are structured and managed the way they are, and what they can do to have the greatest positive impact. Learning Objectives include:

What a project plan is and why it is important
How to provide meaningful estimates
Why it is important to manage customer expectations
How quality creates customer value
The importance of scope control and how to do it
Techniques for management of requirements
How to make communication within the project more effective
The importance of accurate status reports
How Lessons Learned can help the project team

Who should attend
This PM course is especially useful for project team members, managers and supervisors of business staff involved in projects and anyone involved in choosing, managing and mentoring project team members.

Prerequisites
This course assumes only a minimum of experience in project work.

Course Outline

Section 1: Introduction

What is the source of project failure?
What is the source of project success?
Course blueprint

Section 2: Defining Project and Project Management

What is a project?
What is project management?
Other PM terminology
IPECC
PM methodology
Stakeholders
Impact of change

Section 3: The Project Initiation Phase

The Project Charter
Stakeholder analysis
Triple Constraint
Effective estimation

Section 4: Managing Scope

Product versus Project Scope
Work Breakdown Structure
Requirements process, types & tools

Section 5: Schedule and Budget

Schedule
Budget
Project Performance Baselines

Section 6: Quality

Quality Control (QC)
Quality Tools
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Quality Assurance (QA)
Seven Steps to Project Quality

Section 7: Managing Project Risk

Risk definition
Work of risk management
Sources of risk
Risk Register
Evaluating Risk
Risk Response Planning
Controlling Risk

Section 8: Communication

Communication Planning
Communication Tools
Good Meeting Practice
Document Control

Section 9: Project Execution

Work of project execution
Status reports
Change control
Business Value
Project Transition

Section 10: Project Close

Contract closure
Administrative closure
Lessons learned

Learning Approach

A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, group discussions and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future organizational change engagements.
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.

Why should I take this course?

This course explains the larger role of the project team and shows you how to take action that will help any project be more successful.
You will take home a whole new set of tools and techniques that will make you more effective in your work.
Take this course and learn what you can do to ensure that you stand out as a key contributor in every project you work on.
This Project Management course demonstrates how to avoid many of the problems that project teams most often encounter.
Project Management Training provides a variety of tools and techniques that you can use in almost any work that you do.

Every course and workshop in our Project Training program is fully customizable. We offer virtual delivery of the training program you need. Call us: +1.919.495.7371.

All of our courses are fully compliant with the latest release of each relevant standards document such as the PMBOK® Guide, Standard for Portfolio Management, BABOK® Guide, and others.

Course Information

Course ID: 2045
Duration: 1 day
Class size: 6 - 24
Includes:
· PMP® certified instruction
· Comprehensive Participant Guide
· Certificate of Participation
· 7 PDUs / Contact Hours in project management education

Download this course description as a printable PDF document.

Pricing Information
On-site discounts are available.

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