Course Description

This hands-on project management course gives the participants an understanding of what it takes to make a project successful. To do this, the course touches on managing the scope, schedule, and budget for a project. Additionally, the course guides participants on how to effectively manage stakeholders, risk, communications, and quality. Through the course, participants will work on their own project or a sample project to apply what they are learning.

Course Objectives

The course objectives are for participants to:

• Learn to develop a project charter.
• Learn the importance of documenting assumptions.
• Learn how to set and manage expectations along with effective reporting.
• Utilize tools and techniques to manage projects more effectively.
• Understand the use of controls and metrics to know if a project is on track and how to bring a project back on track.
• Learn to build and monitor a scope, schedule, and budget that are the right size for the project.
• Learn risk management strategies and techniques and develop more effective risk responses.
• Organize project communications to provide relevant and timely information.
• Understand how to manage project changes.
• Learn how to effectively engage, manage, and communicate with project stakeholders.
• Forecast project costs beyond the current year.