Project Selection and Initiation

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Project Properties
• The Business Case
• Project Selection Methods
• Role of the Project Manage
• Other Project Roles and Responsibilities
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Project Phases and Life Cycle
• Project Process Stages
• The Project Charter

Practice: Project Properties and Roles

Course: 1 Minute

• Exercise: Identifying Project Properties and Roles

Scope, Schedule, and Cost Planning

Course: 53 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Project Requirements
• Project Scope Statement
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Tasks and Milestones
• Duration Estimation Techniques
• Setting Dependencies, Sequencing, and Prioritizing
• Determining Critical Path and Start/Finish Dates
• Compressing and Optimizing the Schedule
• Allocating Resources

Practice: Project Requirements and Activities

Course: 1 Minute

• Exercise: Specify Requirements and Activities

Resource and Risk Planning

Course: 1 Hour, 2 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Project Team Organizational Structures
• Selecting the Project Team
• Resource Management Concepts
• Personnel Management
• Project Influences
• Types of Organizational Changes
• Risk Activities
• Risk Strategies
• SWOT Analysis

Practice: Project Teams and Managing Risk

Course: 1 Minute

• Exercise: Identify Team Stages and Risk Responses

Communication, Changes, and Documentation

Course: 58 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Communication Methods
• Factors Influencing Communication Methods
• Communication Triggers and Target Audience
• Tools for Communication and Documentation
• Scope, Schedule, and Cost Baselines
• Common Project Constraints
• The Change Control Process
• Common Project Changes
• Vendor Selection and Contract Documentation

Practice: Project Communication and Change

Course: 1 Minute

• Exercise: Specify Communication and Manage Change

Controlling Project Work and Closing

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Project Cost Control
• Earned Value Management
• Budget Forecasting
• Project Schedule Control
• Quality Control
• Lessons Learned
• Closing the Project
• Traditional vs. Agile Project Management
• Agile Methodologies and SCRUM

Practice: Project Performance and Methods

Course: 2 Minutes

• Exercise: Identify Project Performance and Methods

Planning and Controlling the Project Schedule

Course: 55 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Critical Path Method - The Forward Pass
• Critical Path Method - The Backward Pass
• Critical Path Method - Total Float
• Critical Path Method - Free Float
• Critical Path Identification
• Schedule Network Diagram Exercise
• Resource Leveling
• Resource Smoothing
• Schedule Crashing
• Fast Tracking

Project Management Practical Exercises

Course: 1 Hour, 5 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Planned Value and Earned Value
• Schedule Variance and Schedule Performance Index
• Cost Variance and Cost Performance Index
• Project Performance
• Project Performance, Scenario #
• Estimate at Completion, Scenarios 1 and 25
• Estimate at Completion, Scenarios 3 and 47
• Control Charts
• Communication Channels
• Make or Buy Analysis

Quality and Procurement Planning

Course: 52 Minutes

• Course Overview
• Fixed-price Contracts
• Cost Reimbursable and Time and Materials Contracts
• Cost of Quality
• Quality Assurance
• Quality Control
• The Quality Assurance/Quality Control Relationship
• Quality and Change Control
• Quality Terminology
• Agile and Lean Quality Concepts

Practice: Project Procurement and Quality

Course: 2 Minutes

• Exercise: Specify Contract Types and Cost of Quality

Project Planning Documents

Course: 42 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Project Initiation Documents
• Project Management Plan and Subsidiary Plans
• Documents from Scope Planning
• Documents from Planning the Schedule
• Documents from Planning Cost
• Documents from Planning Resources
• Documents from Planning Risk
• Documents from Planning Procurement
• Documents from Stakeholder Planning

Practice: Project Planning Documents

Course: 2 Minutes

• Exercise: Identify Project Planning Documents

Project Documents and Terminology

Course: 33 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Quality Control Documents
• Work Performance Documents
• Integrated Change Control Documents
• Earned Value Management Terminology and Acronyms
• Procurement Terminology and Acronyms
• Procurement Terminology to Solicit Vendor Proposals
• Terminology and Acronyms for Tools and Governance
• Schedule Terminology and Acronyms
• Quality and Resource Terminology and Acronyms

Practice: Project Documents and Terminology

Course: 2 Minutes

• Exercise: Identify Project Documents and Terminology