Program Management Concepts

3 Days

Course Description:

In today’s dynamically changing business environment projects are initiated under tighter budgetary, resource and time constraints than ever before. This seminar focuses on the core project management skills required to manage any project and will provide the attendees with proven "real life" tools and techniques applied to a case study.

Project Leaders, Team Leaders, Project Managers, Line of Business Coordinators, who are responsible for the delivery of projects in a cross-functional environment.

• Develop a foundation in core project management concepts.
• Apply core project management concepts to managing projects.
• Discover and apply project management tools and techniques applicable to each phase of a project’s Life Cycle.

Course Outline:

Unit 1 – Introduction
                Course Goals
                Student Introductions
                Class Objectives
                Class Materials
                Class Norms
               
Unit 2 – The Project Management Framework
                What is a Project?
                Project Objectives
                The Triple Constraint
                What is Project Management?
                Role of the Project Manager
                Program Management/Portfolio Management
                Role of the PMO
                Phases and Life Cycles
                What is a Process?
                PMBOK Processes, Process Groups and Knowledge Areas
               
Unit 3 – Concept Phase
                Building a Business Case
                Project Stakeholders
                Project Initiation
                The Project Charter
                The Project Scope Statement
                Key components of Charter/Scope Statement
                                Project Objectives
                                Project Approach
                                Product Scope Description
                                Project Requirements
                                Project Boundaries
                                Project Deliverables
                                Product Acceptance Criteria
                                Assumptions/Constraints
                                Summary Schedule
                                Summary Budget
                                Initial WBS
                                Initial Defined Risks
                                Approvals

Unit 4 – Development Phase
                Defining Project Scope
                The Work Breakdown Structure
                Developing the Schedule
                                Activity List
                                Activity Sequencing
                                Duration/Resource Estimating
                                Schedule Development
                                Schedule Compression
                Developing the Budget
                Project Quality Management
                Project Communications Planning
                Project Risk Management
                The Performance Measurement Baselines

Unit 5 – Construction Phase
                Executing Processes
                Perform Quality Assurance/Quality Control
                Team Development
                Monitoring Project Progress
                Controlling variance
                Risk Monitoring and Control
                Integrated Change Control

Unit 6 – Installation Phase
                Acceptance of project deliverables
                Transition of project’s product
                Transitioning the Project team
               
Unit 7 – Maintenance/Support Phase
                Post-Implementation Reviews
                Process Improvements
                Enhancements

Unit 8 – Project Closeout

Closing out a project
Contract closure
Administrative Closure
Project Archives
                Gathering Lessons Learned
                Course Closure