What you will learn in this Training Course?
1. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- What is project?
- Projects vs operations
- Projects, programme and portfolio
- Project stakeholders
- The project performance variables
[instead of triple constraint as that is replaced by six variables now] - The project life cycle and phases
- Organizational culture and influence (matrix team)
- The common project challenges
- Why manage projects?
- Project vs product management
- Using project management methodology
2. PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT [THE BEST PRACTICES]
- The proven practices
- Continued business justification
- Learn from experience
- Defined roles and responsibilities
- Manage by stages
- Manage by exception
- Focus on products
- Tailor to suit the project environment
- How to support and apply principles
[**additionally - some thoughts on agile and lean philosophy can be added like keeping things lean, reducing waste and delivering on time]
3. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION [WE CAN CALL IT PRE-INITIATION, PRE-PLANNING, PRE-PROJECT, FEASIBILITY, INVESTIGATION]
- The project drivers
- Appoint the Project Sponsor and Project Manager
- Prepare the Business Case
- Determine and analyze key stakeholders
- Define high level objectives
- Combine project initial information into a Project Charter
- Submit for review and approval to the portfolio team / project governance team
- Tollgate / Go/No go review
4. PROJECT INITIATION [WE CAN CALL IT PLANNING, FOUNDATION]
- Gather and analyze project requirements (can do facilitated workshops, interviews, prototyping etc)
- Define the project scope and prioritize requirements
- Develop the WBS
- Determine the resources and efforts (top down estimating, bottom up, pert, parametric, sizing)
- Prepare the project schedule (calendars, dependencies, constraints, resource availability)
- Fine tune and optimize the schedule [critical path, crashing, fast tracking, leveling etc)
- Set-up project documentation and dashboard (risk register, issue register, quality register, lessons log, CR log)
- Identify project risks and how we will deal with them
- Prepare the project team structure and RACI chart
- Plan how project changes and documentation will be controlled
- Create project communication plan
- Compile all project planning and control documents
- Present the plan and baseline targets
- Tollgate / go/no go review
5. PROJECT EXECUTION AND TRACKING [OR EXECUTION, MONITORING AND CONTROL]
- Essential people and soft skills of a PM smooth execution[leadership, conflict management, motivation, interpersonal, communication]
- Project managers day to day responsibility
- Assigning work to teams
- Reviewing team performance
- Updating and tracking plans
- Reviewing stage progress
- Reporting progress to stakeholders
- Managing stakeholder expectations
- Handling change requests and issues
- Problem solving and risk management
- Escalating issues to senior management
- What needs to be done at the end of each stage
- Inspect and adept cycle
- Reviewing the Business Case
- Conducting effective meetings and presentations
- Tollgate / go/no go review
6. CLOSING A PROJECT
- Stakeholder final review and acceptance
- List outstanding actions and plan how they will be addressed
- Evaluate the project performance
- Hand over products and knowledge
- Transfer responsibility
- Review useful lessons for future projects
- Plan how project benefits will be measured and confirmed
Course Duration : 3 Days
Who should attend the Course?
Experienced Project Managers, Team Leaders, Engagement Managers, Account Managers, Delivery Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Architects, Solution Architects, Functional Managers and anyone who are involved in doing projects and project management.
