Project Management Foundations    

Seminar Outline

Overview of Project Management
Defining what is a project and what is project management
Project management lifecycle
What is a project manager?

Prerequisites
Prerequisites to project initiation
Identifying stakeholders and understanding their needs and issues
Types of project managers and reporting relationships

Initiating the Project
Elements of initiating a project
Creating a project notebook
Establishing the core team
Holding a kick-off meeting
Beginning initial status reporting

Planning the Project
Identifying and formulating the project strategy
Creating a project estimate and schedule
Summary tasks and work packages
Creating baseline time estimates
Identifying resources
Developing a budget
Identifying and addressing task interdependencies
Converting the work breakdown structure into a Gantt chart
Creating the risk management plan
Assembling the project plan and having it reviewed and approved
Steps in the change management process
Areas of project variance and how variance are tracked and reported
Managing issues
Considerations in managing quality
What to do in crisis management
Summarizing the elements of the project planning process

Execution and Control
Assembling the full team
Establishing metrics and data to be gathered
Managing communications: status reports

Closing the Project
Activities for closing out a project
A final project report and how to produce it

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