Project Management Foundations - 1-day Workshop
Cover the essentials of running a project in a single, fast-paced day.
About this course
Cover the essentials of running a project in a single, fast-paced day. You will define project success, map roles with a RACI matrix, write a charter, build a work breakdown structure, schedule with the critical path, plan communications and risk, and see where generative AI helps and where it adds risk, right through to control and closure.
What you'll learn
- Understand and use project management core terms
- Explain key project management concepts and their importance to project and organizational success
- Identify key stakeholder roles and leverage them to engage all stakeholders
- Develop components of a project management plan appropriate for any type or size of project
- Select the best practices for a project using Predictive, Agile, or Hybrid approaches and apply them appropriately to benefit the project and organization
Curriculum
- Projects, Products, and Processes
- Project Management and the Project Life Cycle
- Defining Project Success
- Waterfall vs Agile
- Key Project Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) - RACI Diagrams Exercise
- Predictive Project Life Cycle
- Project Charters
- Project Management Plan Best Practices
- The PM Plan Components
- Balancing Constraints
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Creating a WBS Example
- Breaking Down Activities
- Effort vs. Duration
- Defining Activities Exercise
- Dependencies, Leads, and Lags
- The Critical Path and Float
- Schedule Compression
- Schedule Formats
- Developing a Budget
- Creating a Schedule and Budget Exercise
- Tailoring Stakeholder Communications
- Project Communication Challenges and Best Practices
- Communications Matrix
- Creating a Project Communications Plan Exercise
- Risk Identification Challenges
- Identifying Risks: Knowns and Unknowns
- Risk Analysis
- Planning Risk Responses
- Creating Risk Register Exercise
- Generative AI vs. Artificial General Intelligence
- Opportunities & Risks
- Leading and Managing Projects
- Developing the Team and Trust
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Change Management
- Tracking and Reporting
- Controlling the Project Schedule
- Monitoring Communications, Risk, and Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Monitoring and Controlling Top 5
- Closing Projects, Phases, or Milestones
- Lessons Learned
- Celebrating Project Successes
- Parking Lot Review
- New Ideas, Confirmations, and Takeaways
Who it's for
New project managers, team members and professionals who run projects without formal training.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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