Introduction to Project Management Training

• Defining the initiation phase  
• Linking strategic value to the project  
• Business case overview  
• Issue tracking  
• Assumptions  
• Defining the objective of a project  
• Creating the objective statement (the Five “W” questions)  
• Translating the statement into deliverables  

Activity: Building an Objective Statement and Deliverables List  

• Project Charters and other initiating activities  
• Strategic considerations   

What a project plan is  

• The narrative planning document  
• Outline of content  

Stakeholders   

• Defining stakeholders  
• How they contribute to the development of a project plan  
• Stakeholder analysis  
• Stakeholder engagement plan  
• Stakeholder communication plan  

Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)   

• Defining the WBS  
• How the WBS is developed  

Activity: Build the WBS for Class Project  

Creating the Project Schedule  

• Identify activities  
• Estimate activities  
• Do Now Activity: Determine Duration of Project Activities  
• Sequencing activities  

Activity: Sequence Project Activities (create network diagram)  

• Resourcing the schedule (Identify, Allocate, Optimize)  
• Finalize schedule (Determine project duration, Understand Critical Path, Refining the project to meet objectives and constraints)  

• Define risk management  
• Risk identification  
• Analyze probability and impacts  
• Risk registers  
• Plan risk responses  

Activity: Develop Risk Register for Class Project  

• Contingency plans  
• Early warning signs  

Change control  

• Process defined  
• Scaling process to fit the project  

Project team guidelines  

• Status meetings  
• Schedule updates  
• Issue and risk tracking and reporting  

Other considerations  

• Quality management plan  
• Project procurement plan  
• Getting approval to execute a plan  

Activity: Team Review of Completed Project Plan  

• Defining executing/monitoring and controlling processes  
• The management processes  
• How to monitor and control key plan elements  
• Project status reports  
• Analyzing data against a baseline to determine progress  
• Taking corrective action to meet project constraints  

Activity: Review Project Status Report and Schedule  

• Determining if a project is ready to close  
• Transfer of project deliverable(s) to operational control  
• Determining if project objectives and business value have been attained  
• Conducting lessons-learned review  
• Appropriate celebrations  
• Building project management capabilities in organizations  

Activity: Course Review and Communication of Learnings