Applied Project Management
Course Description
This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and
individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from
original concept to archiving the project documents. You'll walk through a
complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning,
executing, controlling, and closing. Discover and validate a full range of PMBOK®-specific
project management processes from project charter through project closure.
You will work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct
stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management
plan based on a case study provided by your instructor. Practice using
estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Use
available progress information to determine the project's earned value. Consider
various and competing expectations from stakeholders, including the customer,
sponsor and team, as you develop and present plans to address expectations in
ways that benefit the project.
Based on approval from the project sponsor (through role-play presentations
to the instructor), you will then manage the project in a simulated environment
through to completion, including the formation and management of the project
team, project tracking in MS Project, and regular project status reports to
management.
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| Duration |
| 5 days |
| Cost |
| S$4,000 |
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What You'll Learn
- Build a business case for a project
- Develop the project charter and scope
- Obtain sign-off from sponsors and buy-in from stakeholders
- Build a successful project team
- Learn estimating techniques
- Create a project schedule that is realistic and manageable
- Track your project using Microsoft Project
- Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
- Create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and
stakeholder management
- Develop an integrated change management plan
- Manage project change
- Close a project
Who Needs to Attend
Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, product managers, and program managers.
Pre-requisites
Familiarity with MS Project.
Course Outline
1. Laying the Foundation
- Project Management Institute (PMI's) Framework
- Life Cycle Processes
- Knowledge Areas
2. Defining a Project
- Difference Between Projects, Programs, and Reoccurring Activities
- Build a Business Case for Your Project
- Significance of the Triple Constraints
- Develop Your Project Scope by Using a Project Charter
- Identify and Manage Stakeholder Expectations
3. Creating the Schedule
- Seven Steps of Successful Planning
- Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Create Effective Estimates
- Diagram a Project
- Identify the Critical Path
4. Planning for Quality
- Customer Expectations
- Develop Quality Plans and Methods
- Quality Assurance and Control
5. Managing the Risks
- Identify, Assess, Quantify, and Manage Risks
- Mitigation Strategies
- Contingency Planning
6. Dealing with Vendors
- Procurement Planning
- Solicit, Select, and Manage Vendors
7. Managing the Project
- Baselining Your Project Schedule
- Effectively Track and Report Progress
- Formal Change Control Processes
- Managing Organizational Change
8. Closing the Project
- Best Practices for Formal Sign-off
- Conducting Lessons-Learned Reviews
- Archiving Project Documents
9. Case Studies
- Managing Cross-Functional Teams
- Dealing with Conflicting Expectations
Applied Project Management
| Start Date | End Date | Course Fees | Course Code |
| Monday, January 2, 2012 | Friday, January 6, 2012 | S$4,000 | APM |
| Monday, March 5, 2012 | Friday, March 9, 2012 | S$4,000 | APM |
| Monday, May 14, 2012 | Friday, May 18, 2012 | S$4,000 | APM |
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