This introduction to project management training course provides you with the fundamental knowledge and skills to successfully lead a project from beginning to end.
- Through a simulated case study, you will learn how to:
- Leverage key project management concepts
- Lead a project from beginning to end
- Motivate and lead your project team
- Implement effective project management processes
- Develop the leadership skills needed for successfully planning, managing, and delivering projects of any size and scope
Introduction to Project Management Training Delivery Methods
In Person
Online
On Demand
Premium
Introduction to Project Management Training Course Benefits
Choose from adaptive on-demand and instructor-led blended learning options
Gain hands-on project experience through a simulated project case study
Test your knowledge in the end-of-course exam
Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching
Intro to Project Management Instructor-Led Course Outline
- Benefits and value of project management|
- Communication as the key to project success
- Defining a project
- Defining projects, programmes, and portfolio management
- The project management process
- The phases of project management
Activity: The Way Many Projects Start – Chaos
- Defining the initiation phase
- Linking strategic value to the project
- Business case overview
- Issue tracking
- Assumptions
- Defining the objective of a project
- Creating the objective statement (the Five “W” questions)
- Translating the statement into deliverables
Activity: Building an Objective Statement and Deliverables List
- Project Charters and other initiating activities
- Strategic considerations
What a project plan is
- The narrative planning document
- Outline of content
Stakeholders
- Defining stakeholders
- How they contribute to the development of a project plan
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder engagement plan
- Stakeholder communication plan
Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Defining the WBS
- How the WBS is developed
Activity: Build the WBS for Class Project
Creating the Project Schedule
- Identify activities
- Estimate activities
- Do Now Activity: Determine Duration of Project Activities
- Sequencing activities
Activity: Sequence Project Activities (create network diagramme)
- Resourcing the schedule (Identify, Allocate, Optimise)
- Finalise schedule (Determine project duration, Understand Critical Path, Refining the project to meet objectives and constraints)
- Define risk management
- Risk identification
- Analyse probability and impacts
- Risk registers
- Plan risk responses
Activity: Develop Risk Register for Class Project
- Contingency plans
- Early warning signs
Change control
- Process defined
- Scaling process to fit the project
Project team guidelines
- Status meetings
- Schedule updates
- Issue and risk tracking and reporting
Other considerations
- Quality management plan
- Project procurement plan
- Getting approval to execute a plan
Activity: Team Review of Completed Project Plan
- Defining executing/monitoring and controlling processes
- The management processes
- How to monitor and control key plan elements
- Project status reports
- Analysing data against a baseline to determine progress
- Taking corrective action to meet project constraints
Activity: Review Project Status Report and Schedule
- Determining if a project is ready to close
- Transfer of project deliverable(s) to operational control
- Determining if project objectives and business value have been attained
- Conducting lessons-learned review
- Appropriate celebrations
- Building project management capabilities in organisations
Activity: Course Review and Communication of Learnings
Project Management Adaptive On-Demand Training
- Initiating a Project
- Gathering Requirements
- Developing the Scope
- Developing the Schedule - Overview
- Developing the Schedule - Identifying Activities
- Developing the Schedule - Estimating Durations
- Developing the Schedule - Sequencing Activities
- Developing the Schedule - Scheduling the Project
- Optimising the Schedule
- Executing a Project
- Identifying and Managing Risks
- Analysing and Responding to Risks
- Leadership and Communication
- Development Models
Unlimited Access Project Management Premium Blended Training
The premium training bundle includes:
- Initiating a Project
- Gathering Requirements
- Developing the Scope
- Developing the Schedule - Overview
- Developing the Schedule - Identifying Activities
- Developing the Schedule - Estimating Durations
- Developing the Schedule - Sequencing Activities
- Developing the Schedule - Scheduling the Project
- Optimising the Schedule
- Executing a Project
- Identifying and Managing Risks
- Analysing and Responding to Risks
- Leadership and Communication
- Development Models
