Course Description
Overview
Join other project managers from around the country for this lively, highly interactive, online event! You’ll explore today’s most popular, industry-accepted practices and get acquainted with the essential tools you’ll need to confidently approach every project with a plan for success.
Filled with innovative insights, current industry examples and engaging exercises, this drilled-down, instructor-led crash course introduces you to the fundamentals of initiating, managing and executing a project. It also provides the real-world practice you need to effectively guide project teams and manage stakeholders through successful project completion every time.
Agenda
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Program time: 3 hours
Session 1: Project Management Methodologies
Recognize the benefits of identifying a project management methodology
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of various project management processes
Discuss how to communicate a chosen methodology with a project team
Determine which project management process would best suit your organization
Session 2: Foundations of Planning
Discuss the importance of making a business case how to achieve buy-in
Learn how to identify contingencies to mitigate, retain and transfer risk
Describe how to identify and document project relationships among project tasks
Explain how to analyze tasks, requirements and constraints to develop a project schedule
Session 3: Executing and Monitoring Performance
Describe how each of the 3 change request options would impact a project
Discuss the performance advantages of written and verbal reporting
Relate project documents to communicating status and progress measurement
Participate in group activities to practice key project management skills