Project Management Training Course

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to successfully meet predetermined project requirements. This 5-day project management Boot Camp combines lectures, hands-on activities, and computer exercises let you master fundamental techniques and concepts required to succeed as a project manager.

This course uses the structured project management framework of initiation, planning, execution, control, and formal closing. The course focuses on practical tools and techniques you can use immediately back on the job. This course focuses on technical/system dimension of the project management. Understanding of the technical dimension is essential to take other courses related to Project Management.

What you will learn in this class:

• Define basic terminology of project management
• Identify the project management life cycle
• Understand the project management knowledge areas
• Defining the project, build WBS
• Estimate project times and costs
• Developing project plan
• Risk management
• Resource management
• Time management
• Progress and performance measurement Evaluation
• Close a project

Rather than employing mere lecture sessions, we employ hands-on problem solving using case studies and computer exercises using Microsoft project. During the 5 days, you will spend bulk of your time working on hands-on problem solving using case studies and computer exercises. This hands-on approach gives you the best opportunity to acquire skills that otherwise would take months to master. The following three dimensions distinguish our teaching method:

Case studies: You will be given case studies that will serve as the context for most of the exercises in the course. The case study project provides a basis for practicing new tools and techniques.

Hands-on problem solving: Work individually and on a team to develop Work breakdown structure (WBS), constructing Network and Gantt models from the WBS model, developing project plan, Resource management, Time management, Risk management and Status report for project schedule and budget.

Microsoft Project exercises: The case study analysis is followed by building the MS Project models. This enhances the participants understanding of the techniques and concepts learnt in lecture & case study discussions by experiencing their application in PM systems environments.

Defining project management

• Definition of Project Management
• The project life cycle
• Integrative approach to Project Management
• The Project Management Process Groups
• Understanding the Project Management Body of Knowledge ®

Defining the project

• Defining project scope
• Establishing project priorities
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Definition
• Process Breakdown Structure (PBS)
• Responsibility Matrices
• Project communication plan

Estimating time, cost and resource Usage

• Understanding the Basis of the Estimate
• Basic Estimating Techniques
• Estimating guidelines

Developing a project Plan

• Constructing project network
• Project schedule and Critical Path
• Advance network techniques
• Gantt charts

Resource management

• Overview of Resource scheduling
• Types of resource constraints
• Resource allocation methods
• Develop project cost baseline based on resource schedule

Risk management

• Risk management process
• PERT techniques
• Contingency planning
• Developing funding and Time buffers
• Change control management

Time management

• Rationale for reducing project durations
• Options for accelerating project completion
• Time compression techniques
• Managing Project cost and time trade-offs

Project monitoring and controlling

• The project control process
• Monitoring time performance
• Development of an earned value cost/schedule system
• Method of variance analysis

Project closure

• Project audit process
• Project closure process