Project Management - PMBOK ® Guide Foundations

Course details

This course introduces participants to the best practices of project management, as found in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Fifth Edition.

Course Outline

1 - Project Management Framework

• What is a Project?
• What is Project Management?
• Project, Program, and Portfolio Management
• Role of a Project Manager
• Strategy, Portfolio, Program, and Project Management
• Potential Project Drivers
• The Project Life Cycle Overview
• Case Study Selection

2 - Initiating

• Initiating Process Group Overview
• Develop Project Charter
• Identify Stakeholders

3 - Planning

• Planning Process Group Overview
• Collect Requirements
• Define Scope
• Create WBS
• Define Activities
• Sequence Activities
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Develop Schedule
• Critical Path Method
• Estimate Costs
• Plan Human Resource Management
• Plan Communications Management
• Plan Risk Management

4 - Executing

• Executing Process Group Overview
• Lessons Learned
• Perform Quality Assurance
• Develop Project Team
• Stages of Team Development
• Conflict Resolution
• Performance Reporting

5 - Monitoring and Controlling

• Monitoring and Controlling Process Group Overview
• Perform Integrated Change Control
• Monitoring and Controlling Processes: Control Scope, Schedule, Cost
• Monitoring and Controlling Processes: Quality, Verify Scope, Communications, Risk

6 - Closing

• Close the Contracts
• Close the Project
• Perform a Lessons Learned

Target Audience: This class is intended for the individual that is new to project management and needs a summary walk through of the PMBOK® Guide. This class is also intended for the experienced project manager that needs to compare their current project management processes to the PMBOK® Guide processes.