Duration
Project Management & Microsoft Project Planner
4 days
Skill Level
Medium upwards Audience Type: Exposure to projects
Overview
Learn the Project Management (PM) skills you need. Built along the PM life cycle, this course covers detailed topics of the basic concepts of PM: initiating, planning, controlling, executing, stakeholder management, and closing the project. Improve your management skills and abilities to define the project scope, create a workable project plan, and manage within the schedule. Lecture and discussion are reinforced with team exercise.
Who Should Take This Course
Qualified Information Systems (I/S) professionals, marketing individuals, and support staff, in any industry, who are actively involved in a project.
What You Are Taught
- Use PM skills
- Build a performing project team
- Identify and validate your project requirements
- Understand the Life cycle
- Establish a project estimate and a project schedule
- Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Create a project plan
- Manage overall change control
- Control project execution processes
- Manage Stakeholders
- Terminate a project with the right closeout strategy
- Understand the basic terms and concepts of PM
- Implementing for Agile and Dev-ops
Topics
Class Opening
Course Objectives
PM Basics
- Project Definitions
- Project Life Cycle
- About the Project Manager
- Project Charter
- Exercise: Team Charter
Understanding the Life cycle
- Procedure-based process models
- Agile methods
- Story points for measuring in Agile
- Dev-ops
Initiating Processes
- Project Requirements and Baseline
- Project Definition Report
Planning Processes
- Questions Planning Answers
- Activities in the Planning Phase
- Project Planning Elements
- Project Planning Process
Planning Processes: Developing a WBS
- WBS
- Standards for Building a WBS
- Preparing the WBS Dictionary
- WBS Development Steps
Planning Process: Risk Management
- Risk Definition and Types
- Risk Management Processes
- Steps in Risk Management
Planning Processes: Estimating
- Essential Estimating Terms
- Estimating Techniques
- Methods for Estimating
Managing stakeholder
- Understanding Stakeholders
- Creating a stakeholder profile
- Communicating with stakeholders
Planning Processes: Scheduling
- Basic Scheduling Terminology
- Network Techniques
- Diagramming Methodologies
- Critical Path Method
Executing and Controlling Processes
- Overview Management Processes
- Activities in Executing and Controlling Processes
- Executing and Controlling Processes: Change and Quality Management
- Definition of Change
- Origins of Change
- Change Management
- Change Control
Executing and Controlling Processes: Tracking Projects
- Project Tracking Activities
- Progress Tracking
- Project Meetings
- Financial Tracking
Closing Processes
- Project Closeout
- Project Closing Activities
Managing Project Teams
- Team Building
- Benefits of Teams
Microsoft Project Planner
Planning & Managing projects – a complex task that is at the heart of every project, spelling success or disaster. Microsoft Project is a tool to manage the planning process. Hence understanding the pre-processes and the post-processes and executing a successful planning is essential.
Module 1
- Setting up a project
- Defining calendar
- Creating tasks
- Entering tasks
- Differentiating tasks and duration
Module 2
- Scheduling
- Dependency links
- Dependency relationships
- Tasks Constraints
- Tasks conflicts
- Review schedule
- Splitting Tasks
Module 3
- Viewing Tasks
- Resources & costs
- Entering resource info
- Resource availability fields
- Resource cost fields
- Choosing task type
Module 4
- Tracking and Analyzing progress Working with baselines
Module 5
- Creating reports
- Viewing reports
- Managing multiple projects
- Critical Chain Management
- Understanding the 6-discipline model and improve planning
Prerequisites
Managing projects at least from project executive to project Lead & project Managers
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.