Project Management Fundamentals

1 day

Overview

Students will learn the basics of project management.

Prerequisites

Benefits

Students will become familiar with the basic techniques for planning and controlling a project.

Target student

Students should be new to project management and/or about to take on the management of a project.

What's next

This is an introduction to the basic principles of project management. After this course students will be ready to learn how to use Microsoft Project as a project management tool, and will have the pre-requisite skills which are needed for the Systematix courses Project 2002 creating a project, Project 2000creating a project or Project 98 creating a project.

The Project Management Life Cycle

What is a project?
The project management life cycle
The role of the project manager
Setting Up for Success

Setting Up for Success

The Meaning of Success
The Initiation Phase
Project Definition and Scope
Putting together a Statement of Work
The Project Charter

The Project Team

The Teamwork Challenge
Selecting Team Members
The Team Charter

Risk Management

Project Risk

Project Plans

The Work Breakdown Structure
Work Package Sequencing

The Project Schedule

The Scheduling Process
Time Estimates

The Project Budget

What is a Budget?
Creating a Preliminary Budget
Budget and Schedule Balancing

Project Tracking and Control

Moving the Project Forward
Monitoring for Project Progress
Earned Value Analysis
Getting Back on Track

Communications Overview

Project Performance Reports
Project Change Requests

Project Close-Out

Elements of Close-Out
Evaluation of people and projects