Applied Project Management (PM08)

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Who Needs to Attend

Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, product managers, and program managers.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with MS Project.

Follow-On Courses

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

CAPM® Certification

Master an enterprise project through simulated activities.

This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents. You'll walk through a complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Discover and validate a full range of PMBOK®-specific project management processes from project charter through project closure.

You will work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan based on a case study provided by your instructor. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Use available progress information to determine the project's earned value. Consider various and competing expectations from stakeholders, including the customer, sponsor and team, as you develop and present plans to address expectations in ways that benefit the project.

Based on approval from the project sponsor (through role-play presentations to the instructor), you will then manage the project in a simulated environment through to completion, including the formation and management of the project team, project tracking in MS Project, and regular project status reports to management.

At the conclusion of the course, you will provide a closing presentation to the project sponsor that includes a thorough review of the results, lessons learned, and recommendations for improvements.

What You'll Learn

Build a business case for a project
Develop the project charter and scope
Obtain sign-off from sponsors and buy-in from stakeholders
Build a successful project team
Learn estimating techniques
Create a project schedule that is realistic and manageable
Track your project using Microsoft Project
Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
Create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and stakeholder management
Develop an integrated change management plan
Manage project change
Close a project

Hands-On Exercises

Develop the Project Charter
Build the Work Breakdown Structure
Create a Network Diagram
Identify the Critical Path
Develop a Resource Assignment Matrix
Evaluate Project Quality
Assess Project Risk
Determine Project Cost
Plan Project Procurement
Create Change Control Plans
Estimate the Budget
Prepare a Status Report for Schedule and Budget

Course Outline

1. Laying the Foundation

Project Management Institute (PMI's) framework
Life cycle processes
Knowledge areas

2. Defining a Project

Difference between projects, programs, and reoccurring activities
Build a business case for your project
Understand the significance of the triple constraints
Develop your project scope by using a project charter
Identify and manage stakeholder expectations

3. Creating the Schedule

Seven steps of successful planning
Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS)
Create effective estimates
Diagram a project
Identify the critical path

4. Planning for Quality

Customer expectations
Develop quality plans and methods
Quality assurance and control

5. Managing the Risks

Identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks
Mitigation strategies
Contingency planning

6. Dealing with Vendors

Procurement planning
Solicit, select, and manage vendors

7. Managing the Project

Baselining your project schedule
Effectively track and report progress
Formal change control processes
Managing organizational change

8. Closing the Project

Best practices for formal sign-off
Conducting lessons-learned reviews
Archiving project documents

9. Case Studies

Managing cross-functional teams
Dealing with conflicting expectations

Classroom Dates and Locations

Date	Location Details
Feb 22 - 26, 2010	Raleigh, NC	Register
Mar 8 - 12, 2010	Atlanta, GA	Register
Mar 15 - 19, 2010	Dallas, TX	Register
Mar 22 - 26, 2010	Montreal, QC	Register
Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2010	San Jose, CA	Register
Apr 5 - 9, 2010	Mississauga, ON	Register
Apr 5 - 9, 2010	Vancouver, BC	Register
Apr 5 - 9, 2010	Winnipeg, MB	Register
Apr 12 - 16, 2010	Calgary, AB	Register
Apr 19 - 23, 2010	Ottawa, ON	Register
Apr 19 - 23, 2010	Chicago (Schaumburg), IL	Register
Apr 26 - 30, 2010	Washington, DC	Register
May 10 - 14, 2010	Toronto, ON	Register
May 31 - Jun 4, 2010	Victoria, BC	Register
Jun 14 - 18, 2010	Winnipeg, MB	Register
Jun 21 - 25, 2010	Halifax, NS	Register
Jun 28 - Jul 2, 2010	Atlanta, GA	Register
Jul 12 - 16, 2010	Washington, DC	Register
Jul 19 - 23, 2010	Dallas, TX	Register
Jul 26 - 30, 2010	San Jose, CA	Register
Aug 2 - 6, 2010	New York, NY	Register
Aug 9 - 13, 2010	Morristown, NJ	Register
Aug 23 - 27, 2010	Raleigh, NC	Register
Sep 13 - 17, 2010	Washington, DC	Register