Project Management for Non-Project Professionals

Objective:

By attending the Project Management for Non-Project Professionals training course, delegates will:

• Obtain a fundamental understanding of basic aspects of managing projects
• Familiarize and use essential vocabulary and terminology in managing projects
• Apply basic project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to increase both work efficiency and effectiveness on the project team
• Learn and implement the project management processes to be performed for any project
• Identify and understand the ten knowledge areas of project management
• Learn how to proactively plan, monitor, track, update and control risks and opportunities to increase the probability of project success
• Establish an effective and efficient communication strategy to get cooperation and coordination from stakeholders towards meeting the project objectives

Content:

Project Management Overview

• What is a project?
• Definition of project management
• The pitfalls of not using project management
• Project vs. Operations
• The triple constraints in project management
• Stakeholders in project management
• Project life cycle
• Product life cycle
• Project phases
• The Hard/Soft skills in managing a project
• The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• The ISO-21500 Guidance for project management
• Project Management: The Process Context
• Project Management: The Organizational Context
• Critical Success Factors (CSFs) in managing projects
• The Project Management Office (PMO)

Responsibilities & Competencies of the Project Team Members

• Project Management: The Interpersonal and Behavioral Context
• Responsibilities of the project team member
• Common challenges of the project team member
• Skill requirements of the project team member
• Functional competencies of the project team member

Project Management Processes

• Initiating
• Planning
• Executing
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Closing
• Project Management Knowledge Areas
  • Project human resource management
  • Project communication management
  • Project risk management
  • Project procurement management
  • Project stakeholder management

Project Initiation

• Develop the project charter
• Identify stakeholders
• Establish the preliminary project team

Project Planning

• What is project planning?
• The project planning process
• Review project requirements
• Conduct the Project Kick-off meeting
• The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• The Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
• Schedule planning
• Cost planning
• Quality planning
• Human resource planning
• Communications planning
• Risk planning
• Procurement planning
• Stakeholder management planning
• The change control process
• The project plan

Project Execution, Monitoring & Control

• Directing and Managing Project Execution
• Monitoring Work Performance Information
• Managing the Project Team
• Managing Stakeholder Expectation
• Project Deliverables Tracking
• Project Control Definition
• The Objectives of Project Control
• Project Control Approach
• The Earned Value Management Concept: An Integrated Project Control Approach
• Integrated Change Control
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC)
• Manage risks, issues, and opportunities
• Procurement Administration

Project Closure

• Effective Project Closure
• Project Closure Objectives
• Administrative Closure
• Contract Closure
• Lesson Learned
• Close procurement contracts
• Close project
• Obtain and update lessons learned
• Post project evaluations
• Communicate project achievement