The course is intended for business professionals who currently work on projects or are occasionally assigned to work as project team members in any business work areas. The course is designed to present the basics of project management with a focus on understanding project management terms, project selection, planning, estimating, scheduling, and earned value management. This course will also cover the main topics of quality, risk and procurement.

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Be provide with the fundamentals of project management including the ability to initiate, plan and execute basic controls for a project
• Understand each of the project plans
• Understand project selection, the project charter and gathering requirements
• Understand the basics of establishing quality metrics
• Identify risks and understanding the advantages of various types of contracts

Anyone involved in the management of construction projects including, Project Managers, Project Coordinators Construction Managers, Civil Engineers, Team Leaders, Assistant Superintendents, Superintendents, Assistant Project Managers, M&E Coordinators, LEED & BIM Coordinators, Architects and Designers, Estimators, Field Engineers, Consultants and Contractors, Sub-contractors, Project Planners. Schedulers, Project Administrators, IT & Oil & Gas Key Personnel

Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components

· Project definitions

· Project versus operations

· Project management context

· The project management office and project constraints

· Project organizational structures including functional

· Matrix and projected organization hierarchies

· Project and product life cycles

· Areas of expertise

· Project management definition

· Staffing and cost curves over a typical life cycle

· Enterprise environmental factors and organisational process assets

· Integration, scope, time, cost, quality, risk, human resource

· Communications, procurement and stakeholder management

· The project management process

· Initiating the project

· Planning the project

· Executing the project

· Monitoring the project

· Controlling the project

· Closing the project

· The project selection process

· Writing SMART objectives

· Business case methods

· Project measurement methods

· Project selection techniques

· Economic models and additional accounting terms

Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements

· Developing the project charter document for senior management sign-offs

· Listing the project goals

· Objectives

· High level deliverables

· Constraints

· Assumptions

· Business need

· Product description and preliminary resource requirements

· Develop the project management plan including the subsidiary plans

· Baselines and project documents

· Collect requirements including understanding the stakeholder register

· Interviews

· Focus groups

· Group creative techniques and decision making techniques

· Requirements management plan and requirements traceability matrix

· Define scope including the inputs

· Product analysis

· Facilitated workshops and the components of the scope statement

· Create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) including decomposition

· WBS components and the WBS dictionary

Creating the Project Schedule and Budget

· Define activities including decomposition and rolling wave planning

· Sequence activities including key inputs

· Precedence diagramming method

· Dependency determination

· Leads and lags

· Estimate activity durations and resources including using published estimating data

· Bottom-up-estimating

· Activity resource requirements

· Analogous

· Parametric

· Three point estimating

Project Cost Management

· Estimate costs including inputs like the HR management plan

· Analogous

· Parametric

· Three-point estimates

· Reserve analysis and vendor bid analysis

· Determine budget including basis of inputs

· Resource calendars

· Cost aggregation and funding limit reconciliation

· Control costs including using earned value management and forecasting

Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement

· Planning and setting expectations

· Understand cost of quality and develop quality metrics

· Review quality control tools including histograms

· Pareto charts

· Control charts

· Flowcharts and check sheets

Working, Controlling and Closing the Project

· Using project software to track projects

· Working with virtual teams

· Dealing with project management problems

· Project case reviews and discussion

· Project Management leadership

· Communications and meetings best practices

· Closing the project including project administration

· Hand-offs

· Document updates

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