Fundamentals in Project Management

Duration

• 12 hours in Classroom format
• Two weeks
• 3 times a week
• Days of the week
  • to be defined

Time

• to be defined

Topics

Introduction

• Understand what a project is
• Distinguish projects from operations
• Context of starting a project
• Relationship management of projects, programs, portfolio and operations
• What is organizational project management GPO
• Project lifecycle vs development lifecycle
• Understanding of Organizational Process Assets and
• Company Environmental Factors
• Types of Organizational Structures
• Difference between Project Expeditor
• Project Coordinator The Project
• Project Coordinator The Project
• Competencies of a Project Manager
• • Understanding product and project scope
  • Scope/Scope Management Process
  • Scope management plan
  • Requirements management plan
  • Data collection techniques
  • Project Breakdown Structure and Project Breakdown Structure Dictionary
  • Project scope specification
  • Scope Baseline
  • Group decision making
  • Data Representation – Affinity Diagram and Mind Maps

Schedule Management

• Scope/Scope Management Process
• Schedule management plan
• Requirements management plan
• schedule baseline
• Schedule Compression (Compression and Parallelism)
• List of activities
• Network diagram
• Activity dependencies
• Precedence Diagram Method
• Critical Path
• total clearance; Free Slack and Project Slack
• Schedule Template
• Successive Wave Planning

Costs management

• Cost management process
• Cost Management Plan
• life cycle cost
• value analysis
• Cost baseline
• Comparison of the “estimate in schedule and cost management” processes
• types of costs
• Estimate ranges.

Quality management

• Quality Management Process
• Quality Management Plan
• Quality Concepts
• Grade vs Quality
• Unsolicited benefit (Gold plating);
• cost benefit analysis
• Cost of Prevention, Assessment, Failure (internal / external);
• Cost of Compliance and Non-compliance

• Diagrams:

  • Affinity
  • Cause and effect
  • Histogram
  • Flowchart

• Risk management

  • Risk management process

  Definition of risk management

  • Threats
  • Opportunities
  • Risk response strategy
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Register
  • Decision tree
  • types of risks
  • Probability and impact matrix
  • Risk Category
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Residual risks
  • Contingency and alternative plans

• Resource management

  • Resource management process
  • Resource management plan
  • team development
  • Responsibility Matrix and RACI Matrix
  • Resource Breakdown Structure
  • Resource naming term
  • Pre-designate
  • Theory of motivations

• Procurement Management

  • Centralized and Decentralized Hiring
  • Main types of contracts
  • Process of conducting the Acquisitions
  • Acquisition Control Process
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Basic concepts
  • Difference between effectiveness and efficiency
  • Identification of Interested Parties
  • Registration of Interested Parties
  • Power/interests matrix, power/influence matrix or impact/influence matrix
  • Planning, management and monitoring of Stakeholder Engagement

• Communications Management

  • Communications concept from the perspective of project management
  • Communications management projects in projects

  • communication model

    • Interactive Communication
    • Passive communication (push)
    • pull communication
  • communication barriers

• Integration Management

  • Project Management Process Group
  • Development of the Project Opening Term (TAP)
  • Structure of a TAP
  • Project Management Plan
  • project documents
  • Project plan preparation process
  • Project Work Management and Guidance
  • Explicit vs Tacit knowledge
  • Role of lessons learned in projects
  • Integrated Change Control
  • corrective actions
  • preventive actions
  • defect repair
  • Project Closing Process

• Recipients

  • University student, Graduates, Business managers, professionals from different areas of organizational business (accountant, jurist, doctor, environmentalist, military, business manager, engineer, entrepreneur, PMO, project managers, aspiring PMP certification, etc.)
  • All people interested in starting or developing their skills in project management

• Minimum number of subscribers

  • 5 trainees
  • Classes are limited to a maximum number of 20 trainees.

• At the end of the course, trainees will be able to:
  – Identify the different phases of a project
  – Apply techniques and work tools to the different activities
  – Understand the strategic framework of the project in the organization
  – Know essential principles in leadership
  – Identify and manage risks
  – Configure the general structure of a project and corresponding plan
  – Structuring the planning according to the defined metrics; strategy, processes, tools and competencies, with examples of application, as well as how the transformation process is managed and how it is influenced by the organizational culture and the role of leaders.
• Grades:
  The course was designed to be taken by people with or without experience
  in project management and includes several practical examples to the dimension of
  reality of the trainees.