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PMBOK® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Project Management Institute (PMI)

PMBOK: PROJECT MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS™

Duration

2 Days

Introduction

Familiarise yourself with project management knowledge and skills that can be used for any project. You will examine how

project management impacts all levels of the organisation in terms of planning, delivery, scheduling, controlling, customer

service, interface knowledge, techniques, and skills.

Who Should Attend

Anyone (managers, technical specialists and project team members) who needs a solid foundation in understanding

professional project management techniques.

AT COURSE COMPLETION

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Get started with project management fundamentals.

Identify organizational influences and project life cycle.

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.

Execute a project.

Manage project work, scope, schedules, and cost.

Controlling and closing a project.

Course Outline

Getting Started with Project Management

• Understanding the components of project

management

Project Management and the Organization

• Identifying organizational influences, project

stakeholders and governance

• An overview of the project life cycle

Working with Project Management Processes

• Project management processes and knowledge

areas

• Identify project information

Initiating a Project

• Develop a project charter

• Identify project stakeholders

Planning a Project

• Develop a project management plan

• Plan scope management

• Collect project requirements

• Define project scope

Planning for Project Time Management

• Plan schedule management

• Define and sequence project activities

• Estimate activity resources and duration

• Develop a project schedule

Planning Project Budget, Quality, and Communications

• Plan project cost management

• Plan quality management

• Plan human resource management

• Plan communications management

• Planning for risk, procurements, and stakeholder

management

Plan Risk Management

• Identify risks

• Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis

• Plan for risk response

• Plan project procurements

• Plan stakeholder management

Executing a Project

• Direct and manage project work

• Perform quality assurance

• Acquire, develop and manage your project

team

• Manage communications

• Conduct procurements

• Manage stakeholder engagement

Managing Project Work, Scope, Schedules, and Cost

• Monitor and control project work

• Perform integrated change control

• Validate project scope

• Control project scope, schedule and costs

Controlling the Project

• Control project quality, communications, project

risks, project procurements and stakeholder

engagement

Closing a Project

• Close project or phase

Making better use of Microsoft Project