Project Management Overview for Managers

    

Summary:
This course delivers a power-packed overview of the essential project management concepts and techniques that every business manager must know. All topics include field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Participants are shown how to structure a project, establish and manage scope, create an effective schedule, identify and manage risks, control costs; manage to the triple constraint and more. The format includes a mixture of group discussions, exercises and lecture. Whether new to Project Management or building on existing skills, participants will return to their business better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion.

Duration:
1 Day/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course will be of value to business owners, newly assigned project managers and team leads, managers of project managers, and business managers with project responsibility.

Topics:

• Defining Project and Project Management
• The Project Environment
• Sources of Project Success and Failure
• Roles in the Project
• Project Life Cycle
• The Project Charter
• Project objectives and Business Value
• Estimation
• Defining Scope - Requirements and the WBS
• Developing the Project Schedule
• The Communication Strategy
• Project Budget - controlling cost
• Importance of Quality
• Risk Management
• Change Control
• Transition Planning - Product Delivery
• Project closure - Lessons Learned
• Conclusion

Prerequisites:
This course assumes some experience with project work but no specific prior PM training.

Last Update: May 22, 2012