DAY 1 - PROJECT SCOPE PLANNING
- Project Development Plan outline
- Project Proposal/Project Charter
- Feasibility Study/Business Case
- The Work Breakdown Structure
- Milestones that are meaningful to others
- Planning for information rollup
- Using software such as Microsoft Project™
DAY 2 - PROJECT TIME AND COST PLANNING AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- Estimating Methods
- Accuracy of estimates at each stage of the plan
- Advanced scheduling methods: correlating multiple projects
- Resource assignment and leveling
- Individual time management
- Project Cost Planning: Cost sanity checks: is it realistic?
- Risk Identification, Quantification, Response, Control
- Risk as a monetary value: Pricing in the risk factors
DAY 3 - INTEGRATION AND REPORTING PROGRESS
- Integrating scope, quality, time, cost constraints
- Optimizing the plan: Speeding it up, making it cost less
- Monitoring: receiving truthful information about project progress
- Showing progress against the baseline: Realizing that the project is behind schedule or over budget
- Using Earned Value to report accomplishment
DAY 4 - MANAGING PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS, PROCUREMENT AND QUALITY
- Communication: who, what where, when, how, why: information needs of different stakeholders
- Effective status and review meetings
- Efficient progress reporting using short, meaningful status reports
- Other reports, based on: Deliverables, milestones, issues
- Information roll-up and project summary reporting
- Project Procurement Planning and Control
- RFP, Proposal, Contracting and Contract administration
- Quality management: standards, methods and literature
- Quality planning, Assurance and Control
DAY 5 - PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, PROJECT CONTROL AND ADVANCED TOPICS
- Project Manager skills required
- Building and managing the Project Teams: Motivation, demotivation, growth, burn-out and turnover
- Establishing a Project Management Office
- Critical Chain scheduling
- Project Risk Control
- Problems: detecting and solving
- Handling dependencies on other groups over whom you have no control
- Project Close-out: Post project Review and Report
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