Project Management Fundamentals

Course Description:

Who Should Attend?

• Project Managers
• Project Leaders
• Project Teams
• VP of Projects
• Supervisors/Managers
• IT Managers
• Chief Information Officers
• System Developers
• Anyone who needs project skills

Curriculum:

• Define the six step project management process
• Understand the project’s life cycle
• Determine five ways to give proper leadership within culture
• Design an agenda for the first project team meeting
• Identify the triple constraints of every project
• Define the project drivers
• Demonstrate interviewing techniques that will assist in determining project specifics
• Review constraint red flags to watch
• Show how to set, control and monitor project scope
• Summarize major areas to brainstorm
• Classify who to place on your project team
• Label role descriptions and project responsibilities when you have no position power
• Facilitate brainstorming and planning meetings
• Create a modified code of conduct for running an empowered team
• Examine forms in scheduling a project and possible scheduling issues
• Formulate a Work Breakdown Structure
• Track multiple projects
• Evaluate a real time line
• Evaluate why time calculations are wrong
• Examine characteristics of a milestone
• Analyze strengths and weaknesses of a Gantt chart
• Define the critical path
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a critical path
• Explore how to handle delays
• Examine steps in creating a project budget and developing a master budget control process
• Discuss implementation of project plan
• Identify seven things which must be communicated in every project
• Assess how to crash a project
• Implement close down checklists and handoff procedures

Prerequisites:

Professional Development Units:

Instructors:

• Adjunct professor of business/management at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale
• PMP Certificate - 2006
• Certified Online Instructor
• Masters in Management/Business - 1992
• Ph.D. in Administration Management with an emphasis in Human Resources, Organizational Development and Behavior - 1994
• Book published - Dinosaur Tracks: Modern Leadership Strategies for Changing Employee Performance and Behavior