Project Management: 8-Hour Intensive Course
Do you want to learn how to professionally manage projects to successfully achieve goals on time and on budget?
To develop a career as a project manager? Or increase the PM skills of your organization?
You are at the right place!
What does the training include?
Course Contents
TOPIC
CONTENTS
Project Management: Introduction
- Which endeavors qualify as a project (or What is a project?); A brief history of projects through the ages;
- What creates the need for starting a project;
- Basic concepts and terminology in project management;
- The role of a Project Manager: responsibilities and required skills.
The Project Lifecycle
- Introduction to the main phases and types of work that occur in any project.
The Initiation Phase
- Methods for project selection;
- Preparatory activities: defining objectives, resources available, risks and expectations;
- Summarizing project information. Exercise.
The Planning Phase
- Planning as a strategy for success;
- Defining and documenting scope and requirements. Exercise;
- Developing a project plan (timeline, buffers, dependencies). Exercise;
- Building the budget. Exercise;
- Defining the qualitative criteria;
- Risk assessment. Exercise;
- Determine roles and responsibilities.
The Execution Phase
- Kick-Off Meeting: importance and preparation;
- Management of project activities;
- Managing the project team;
- Register of activities and issues;
- Change Management/Controlling Change.
The Monitoring & Control Phase
- Reporting progress against time, budget and requirements. Exercise;
- Project Status Reporting: Definition and Communication. Exercise;
- Issue Management: Techniques for overcoming problems that impede project work. Exercise.
The Closure Phase
- Closure Activities;
- Providing Feedback;
- Documenting Lessons Learnt.
Agile Project Management
- Introduction, basic concepts and features;
- Areas of application;
- Overview of the “Scrum” methodology.
*The course can be conducted in both Bulgarian and English. The course materials are available only in English language.