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Project Management Fundamentals

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This project management fundamentals course will give you a fundamental understanding of how to manage a project with proven concepts, tools, templates and best practices. In an environment of continuous change, organizations need to have efficient and effective management of the projects they undertake to improve their competitiveness. Project management is a vastly complex and complicated endeavour, and like any
other complex and complicated effort, it’s often hard to know just where to start. Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on series of courses gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget while giving the consumer the product they expect.

Starting from the beginning, you will first learn to properly define a project and then move into understanding the different project methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile and Iterative project management. This project management fundamentals course is designed for both people new to the project management role, as well as seasoned PMs, hands-on group exercises will encourage collaboration between these different experience levels furthering the learning experience through peer collaboration.

Course Objective(project management fundamentals)

  • Articulate the relevance of core project management competences.
  • Identify key project goals and assumptions and set the stage for value delivery.
  • Understand how to identify stakeholders and assess how to engage with them during the project.
  • Meet stakeholder informational needs by creating an actionable communication plan.
  • Articulate product scope as part of the charter.
  • Become familiar with the process of eliciting and capturing requirements.
  • Create the WBS and dictionary that would deliver the scope in the project charter.
  • Adequately monitor the development of the project
  • Successfully close a project
  • Anticipate the events and risks of a project
  • Confront new situations in a project
  • Be able to adapt management methods and procedures to different types of projects

Learning Outcome

  • Work with project management processes.
  • Initiate a project.
  • Plan a project.
  • Plan for project time management.
  • Plan project budget, quality, and communications.
  • Plan for risk, procurements, and stakeholder management.
  • Adequately monitor the development of the project
  • Successfully close a project
  • Anticipate the events and risks of a project
  • Confront new situations in a project
  • Be able to adapt management methods and procedures to different types of projects

 

What is the target audience?

This project management fundamentals course is designed for individuals who have on-the-job project management experience (whether or not project manager is their formal job role), who are not certified project management professionals, and who might or might not have received formal project management training. The course is appropriate for these persons if they wish to develop professionally, increase their project management skills, apply a formalized and standards-based approach to project management, and seek career

  • Anyone who is involved in, or affected by, projects or change management within an organization, including project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project team members, subject matter experts, analysts, stakeholders, and senior managers who want to get more out of their project teams
  • Anyone in a leadership role who will benefit from an introduction to the art and science of project management
  • You should not take this course if you have taken IT Project Management or Applied Project Management. The subjects covered are the same.
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Monday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Tuesday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Wednesday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Thursday 9:30 am - 6.00 pm
Friday 9:30 am - 5.00 pm
Saturday Closed
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