Effective Project Management

About this Course

This 2-day workshop is designed to completely cover the fundamentals of managing projects. It introduces participants to more complex topics in project management while it deepens their understanding of planning and controlling processes. Participants discover concepts, tools and ways to manage projects to achieve positive outcomes. They apply these principles and techniques to sample projects and create links to their own projects.

The workshop includes a detailed Participant Guide that has references to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the international ANSI standard of the Project Management Institute. The Participant Guide illustrates tools and techniques with a comprehensive project example and describes a simplified project planning process.

At Course Completion

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

• Define project requirements and scope.
• Develop a work breakdown structure and project activities.
• Build a network diagram to show activity sequence.
• Define resources required and create accountabilities across functions.
• Develop time and cost estimates.
• Generate project budgets and calendar-based schedules.
• Evaluate and plan for risk.
• Identify and analyze key stakeholders.
• Create a plan to meet communication needs.
• Track and manage project progress.
• Close out the project and conduct a post project review.

Audience Profile

The workshop is intended for project managers, project team members, business analysts, technical specialists, subject matter experts, and other project stakeholders who would like to refresh their skills, broaden their understanding, or learn some new approaches. It was created to help project participants reach the next level of proficiency and is appropriate for those with some project management experience and /or minimal project management training.

Prerequisites