Course Description
This highly interactive workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools and techniques of formal project management.  While introductory in nature, this course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice.  Participants not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork.  The concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.

Features
Our facilitators bring real-world experience to every workshop.
You will be led, not lectured, through a hands-on
case study.
As a team, you will work through scenarios that provide an experimental environment where you can take risks and make adjustments based on your results before taking on big projects.
You will learn concepts and techniques applicable to any tool or methodology.
Our workshop is consistent with the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).

Discover How To
Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Use a network diagram to display a Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart.
Use the Critical Path Method (CPM) in the network diagram to ensure the correct project duration.
Estimate and schedule project tasks.
Apply resources to a project plan.
Explore different personality types and learn how they affect project management.

Outline Summary
An Overview of Project Management
The characteristics of a project.
Project management processes.
Project success and failure.
Critical success factors and components.
The effective project manager — skills and characteristics.
Roles and responsibilities.
The time, cost, and scope target.
The People Side of Project Management
Understanding people.
Learn the use style models.
Flexing your style.
Understanding differences.
Communicating.
Planning the Project
The components of the plan.
Introduction to the case study.
The project charter.
The work plan.
The control plans.
The functions of a good project plan.
Work Breakdown Structure
(Work Plans)
Defining the work to be done.
Creating the WBS — demonstration of technique.
The WBS task and the work package.
Methods of subdivision.
Uses of the WBS.

Estimating
Estimating accuracy.
Estimating concepts and methods.
Task-based estimation.
Effort, productivity factors, influence factors.
Scheduling
Schedule concepts and methods.
Network diagrams.
Precedence logic.
Estimate duration.
Create a network diagram — demonstration of technique
PERT/CPM.
Allocation of resources.
Gantt charts/histograms.
Risk Management
Evaluation of risk.
Identification, assessment, quantification, and contingency planning.
Risk consequences and contingencies.
A technique for planning for risk.
Cost/benefit/risk considerations.
Project Control
Measurement, evaluation, and quality control.
Prerequisites to effective control.
Key indicators.
Change management and control.
Progress reporting.
Project Completion
Management of project completion.
Post implementation.