Project Management: Fundamentals
Course Description
Project
Management: Fundamentals…overviews the basics of project management. It provides the theory
and core methodology you will need to manage projects or participate on
project teams. This course does not make use of any project management
software application, but instead focuses on the conceptual underpinnings that
students must know in order to use any project management software application
effectively.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you have some working
knowledge of your computer's operating system.
Benefits: Students will learn how to use project management techniques
to plan, organize, control, document, and close out their projects
successfully and with minimum risk.
Performance-Based Objectives
-
Discuss the phases of the Project Management Life Cycle and a
project manager's role in each phase.
-
List and discuss basic project success criteria and common reasons
for project failure.
-
Discuss techniques for setting up a strong project team.
-
List and discuss elements of a Risk Management Plan.
-
Discuss techniques for planning and sequencing project activities,
including the Work Breakdown Structure and the Network Logic Diagram.
-
Identify the Critical Path for completing a project on schedule.
-
List and discuss the cost elements that should be included in a
project budget.
-
Discuss techniques for controlling for deviation from budgets and
schedules.
-
Discuss key elements of project management communications and
reporting tools.
-
Discuss key activities of project close-out.
Course Content
Lesson 1:
The Project Management Life Cycle
-
Topic 1A: What is a Project?
-
Topic 1B: The Project Management Life Cycle
-
Topic 1C: The Role of the Project Manager
Lesson 2:
Setting Up for Success
-
Topic 2A: The Meaning of Success
-
Topic 2B: What Happens in the Initiation Phase?
-
Topic 2C: Project Definition and Scope
-
Topic 2D: Putting Together a Statement of Work
-
Topic 2E: The Project Charter
Lesson 3:
The Project Team
-
Topic 3A: The Teamwork Challenge
-
Topic 3B: Selecting Team Members
-
Topic 3C: The Team Charter
Lesson 4:
Risk Management
Lesson 5:
Project Plans
Lesson 6:
The Project Schedule
Lesson 7:
The Project Budget
-
Topic 7A: What is a Budget?
-
Topic 7B: Creating a Preliminary Budget
-
Topic 7C: Budget and Schedule Balancing
Lesson 8:
Project Tracking and Control
-
Topic 8A: Moving the Project Forward
-
Topic 8B: Monitoring for Project Progress
-
Topic 8C: Earned Value Analysis
-
Topic 8D: Getting Back on Track
Lesson 9:
Project Reports
-
Topic 9A: Communications Overview
-
Topic 9B: Project Performance Reports
-
Topic 9C: Project Change Requests
Lesson 10:
Project Close-out
Top 
