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PT27234
Training Summary
Foundation in Project Management delivers practical, hands-on training in essential agile and waterfall concepts and techniques that every project manager must know. The course provides participants with a comprehensive range of project management principles and techniques, extending PMBOK® concepts with field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Course topics include how to:
- Focus the entire project lifecycle on delivery of value
- Determine when an agile, waterfall, or hybrid approach is best
- Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders
- Define scope and develop requirements
- Waterfall: comprehensive schedule and budget
- Agile: work within budget and time constraints
- Respond effectively to project change
- Minimize issues with proactive risk management
- Manage the project team
- Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations
- Plan for acceptance of organizational change
- Engineer a successful deployment
Prerequisites
This course assumes some prior experience with project management as project manager or team lead.
Duration
4 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course is of special value to project managers and team leads who want a solid, guiding PM methodology; experienced project managers who want to add to their toolkit of tools and techniques; functional managers with project responsibility who want a deeper understanding of project management principles; and Project Management Office staff.
Course Topics
- Sources of Project Success and Failure
- Core Concepts in Project Management
- Working with Stakeholders
- Create a Strong Project Foundation
- Effective Estimation
- Managing Scope
- Developing the Project Schedule
- Delivering Quality to Optimize Value
- Managing Project Risk to Protect Value
- Project Budget
- Organizational Adoption
- Managing the Team
- Managing Stakeholders
- Change Control
- Project Transition
- Project Close