Project Management Essentials (3 days)
Build the knowledge and skills required to plan and manage projects
The Project Management Essentials (PME) course encompasses the fundamental best practices to manage a project from initiating to closing – what every project manager essentially needs to know to manage projects successfully. Participants gain an understanding of the concepts and tools needed to build and manage an effective project plan.
Through the use of short case studies, practical exercises, class discussions, and lectures, participants have the opportunity to apply best practices in a non-threatening classroom environment.
At-a-glance
Delivery: Instructor-Led Training
(Virtual or On-site)
Course Length: Virtual: Six 3.5-hour sessions; Onsite: 3 Days
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 21 (14 Ways of Working, 7 Power Skills)
Key Outcomes
- Identify project management terminology and project manager competencies
- Describe the differences and types of project phases, lifecycles, and process groups
- Identify elements of the project charter and kickoff meeting
- Identify your project stakeholders and analyze their influence on your project
- Develop a scope statement
- Develop a WBS with your project team
- Discuss cost and work estimates for your project
- Analyze a project's critical path
- Determine lead and lag on the schedule
- Describe the risk management process
- Identify, analyze, and determine strategies for risks
- Describe the process for managing scope change of a project