Foundation in Project Management

• Project lifecycle and project environment
• Getting a project off to a good start
• Knowing who your stakeholders are
• Providing estimates you can live with
• Defining and managing scope, schedule and budget
• Establishing effective communication
• Procurement; Resource Planning
• Putting quality into the product
• Managing Project Risk
• Status Reports, Project Metrics and Earned Value
• Change Control; working with baselines
• Managing stakeholders and vendors
• Controlling cost
• Product delivery
• Lessons Learned

Project Structure

• Sources of Project Success and Failure
• Defining Project and Project Management
• The Project Environment
• Roles in the Project
• Project Life Cycle
• PM Methodologies
• The Business Case
• Estimation
• The Project Charter
• Project objectives and Business Value

Project Planning

• Defining Scope - Requirements and the WBS
• Developing the Project Schedule
• The Communication Strategy
• Organizational Adoption
• Project Budget
• Procurement; Resource Planning; Quality
• Managing Project Risk
• Baselines

Execution and Control

• Status Reports
• Project Metrics and Earned Value
• Change Control; Working with baselines
• Managing the team
• Managing stakeholders
• Vendor management
• Controlling cost

Successful Conclusion

• Testing the product
• Transition Planning
• Contract closure
• Administrative closure
• Lessons Learned
• Celebration
• Review of Critical Success Factors
• Conclusion

• A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, numerous hands-on exercises, team activities, group discussions, individual discovery and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material
• We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future projects.
• If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
• You will receive a Student Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.

• If you are new to project management, the exercises in this PM course will give you hands on experience with all of the primary techniques required to manage a project.
• Experienced project managers will obtain a vocabulary and framework that lends structure and perspective to the wealth of experience they already have.
• 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.

• "This class was fantastic. The instructor was both knowledgeable and skilled at teaching the material. A must-have course for any organization embarking on projects. You wil see ROI for your investment in this course."
• "Dr. Evans is a wonderful instructor. He spoke very clearly and had a fantastic understanding of the topic. I learned a great deal and see tremendous benefit to putting these tools to use."
• "Gary has done a terrific job in helping us to gain important fundamental knowledge of PM."