Course: Project Management
Course Length: 16 hours
Course Outline:
I. Introduction
- An introduction to project management
- What is project management?
- What are the biggest project management challenges?
- What are the biggest project management complaints?
II. Defining the roles and responsibilities of a new project manager
- Leadership skills of the project manager
- Management skills of the project manager
- Communications skills of the project manager
- Project manager’s marketing role
- Project manager’s technical role
- Project manager’s business role
- Conflict resolution
III. Work planning and the project team
- What is a project work plan?
- What is involved in the work planning process?
- Planning is a process
- Defining the Tasks
- Estimating Task Time Requirement
- What forces influence good planning?
- A classroom project exercise
IV. Scheduling and the project team
- Each project has constraints that create scheduling roadblocks
- What are the benefits of good project scheduling?
- Understanding the different scheduling methods
- How to manage the scheduling process
- How to overcome schedule problems
- A classroom scheduling exercise
V. Budgeting and the project team
- Why do we need a budget?
- Budgeting is a project team effort
- What goes into a project budget?
- Research similar projects to establish a budget
- Understanding the different budgeting methods
- How to overcome budget problems
- A classroom project exercise
VI. Project management execution
- How does a project manager properly execute the work plan?
- Project administration and a good communications plan
- Calibration-based information method
- Client management
- Financial management
- How does managing a small project differ from a large one?
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