The Core of Project Management: Scope, Time, Cost and Delivery

The Core of Project Management: Scope, Time, Cost and Delivery

Length: 2 days
PDUs: 14
PMI Activity ID#: 000415

Prerequisites
This course assumes that participants have participated in some projects and have some experience leading small projects or project teams. However, no prior PM training is required.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for Project Managers who want an in-depth look at crucial concepts and techniques, or new project managers looking for a jump start in their new profession. Newly assigned project managers and team leads, managers of project mangers, functional managers with project responsibility, and Project Management Office staff will also benefit from this course.

The Challenge
It takes more than abstract knowledge to be successful at the actual work at hand: managing projects. That means we need Project Management training that does more than just focus on passing an exam. What we need is PM training that focuses on those concepts, tools and techniques that actually help us to get the job done. When we leave the course we want to feel as though we can immediately use what we've just learned. Where can we find such training?

The Solution
The Core of Project Management provides two days of practical, hands-on training in essential project management concepts and techniques. This course extends PMBOKŽ concepts with supplemental, field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Students are shown how to establish project control through careful scope definition and management, led through development of a detail budget, shown how to build a resource-loaded schedule that supports accurate status and forecasting, and brought through an exercise in thorough planning for rollout and transition. The format is truly multimodal, with a mixture of exercises, group discussions, individual discovery and lecture. Every student receives a set of useful Project Management templates. All participants will return to their workplace better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion. Topics covered during this course include:

Project Scope: Defining and controlling the work of the project

Creating a budget that makes sense

Resource-loaded schedule and the performance baseline

Knowing where you are: Accurate status and forecasting with Earned Value

Going in for a safe landing: Planning for delivery and transition to operations

Course Outline

Project Essentials

Source of project success and failure - Project versus Product Life Cycle

Central importance of project and product scope

Interrelationships: scope, budget, schedule and project control

Scope Planning and Control

The project charter: preliminary scope

Project objectives and Business Value

Foundation for project planning; WBS

Project scope and scope control

Project Budget and cost control

Creating a resource-loaded schedule

The project performance baseline

Budget and Schedule

Project status and Earned Value

Forecasting project cost and schedule

Status Reports; working with baselines

Change control

Controlling costs

Delivery and Transition

Delivery as part of Transition

Transition planning

Smooth hand-off to the support organization

Lessons Learned

Review of Critical Success Factors

Why should I take this course?

Experienced project managers will discover how to leverage the interrelationships among scope, budget and schedule.
If you are new to project management, the exercises in this PM course will give insights into important techniques for managing the Triple Constraint.
All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.
This Project Management course demonstrates how to avoid many of the problems that project teams most often encounter.
Project Management Training provides a variety of tools and techniques that you can use in almost any work that you do.

Instructor Background:
A certified Project Management Professional, the instructor for this course is highly experienced in all aspects of project management. As a past member of the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Chapter of the Project Management Institute, he has presented numerous workshops and seminars at PMI events, most recently as the keynote speaker at the Palmetto Chapter Symposium in 2010. He brings that experience with him into the classroom, and uses an endless supply of stories to bring the concepts of project management alive for his students. Just in the past few years he has trained hundreds of students in both fundamental and advanced project management topics through delivery of courses and workshops. His unique take on the central importance of Business Value, human factors and implementation of best practice in project management influences his entire curriculum, which takes students far beyond standard Project Management instruction.

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