Introduction to Project Management Training

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 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

Module 1: Introduction to Project Management

• Benefits and value of project management|
• Communication as the key to project success
• Defining a project
• Defining projects, programs, and portfolio management
• The project management process
• The phases of project management

Activity: The Way Many Projects Start – Chaos

Module 2: Initiating a Project

• 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

Module 3: Planning the Project

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 diagram)

• Resourcing the schedule (Identify, Allocate, Optimize)
• Finalize schedule (Determine project duration, Understand Critical Path, Refining the project to meet objectives and constraints)

Module 4: Project Risk Management

• Define risk management
• Risk identification
• Analyze probability and impacts
• Risk registers
• Plan risk responses

Activity: Develop Risk Register for Class Project

• Contingency plans
• Early warning signs

Module 5: Baselining the Plan

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

Module 6: Executing plan

• Defining executing/monitoring and controlling processes
• The management processes
• How to monitor and control key plan elements
• Project status reports
• Analyzing data against a baseline to determine progress
• Taking corrective action to meet project constraints

Activity: Review Project Status Report and Schedule

Module 7: Project Closure

• 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 organizations