Duration: (16 hours)

Module 1 :Management Overview

• Defining Management
• Understanding Management Functions (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling)
• Identifying Managerial Roles (Interpersonal, Informational, and Decisional)

Module 2: Project Management Overview

• Reviewing project successes and their inherent characteristic
• Understanding the factors that contribute to project failure and how project management disciplines and processes target these areas to ensure repeatable delivery success
• Defining a project and project management
• Exploring project management parameters
• Critical skills for successful project management

Module 3: Project Life Cycle

• Examining life cycles and their significance within a project environment
• Examining phase activities, milestones and gates
• Identifying phase deliverables and their importance for ultimate project success

Module 4: Project Initiation

• Developing the project charter
• Identifying and analyzing key stakeholders

Module 5: Project Planning

• Scoping the project – understanding and defining the scope, and obtaining key stakeholder signoff
• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and scheduling
• Understanding the Critical Path and how a Project Manager utilizes it for greater project control
• Establishing a project baseline, against which to track progress

Module 6: Project Planning (con't)

• Identifying risks and planning risk responses
• Conducting/contributing to quality planning

Module 7: Project Execution and Control

• Tracking and controlling the project
• Using earned value to report progress
• Applying a disciplined change control management method
• Managing risks and issues
• Managing project quality
• Reporting and communication

Module 8: Project Closing

• Conducting formal project closure
• Reviewing post implementation – gathering, documenting and assimilating lessons learned