Project Management Nuts & Bolts
Integrating Concepts while Using Desktop Tools

Workshop description:

You have been assigned as a project manager to an overwhelming project.  This four-day seminar covers the practical knowledge and hands-on exercises you need to prepare you for beginning and completing a project successfully.  You will learn how the Project Management Body of (PMBOK) can be integrated with each phase of the project life cycle. This is a hands-on course in which the participants learn how to integrate the appropriate desktop tool in the project management process.  The class is divided into project teams.  Each project team develops a project from beginning to end using the project management concepts and the appropriate desktop toll presented in this course.  The desktop applications used in the class are Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project.

You will learn to:

• Match project goals and objectives to organization goals and stakeholder needs   

• Document project plans in MS Word and Excel templates

• Create a Work Breakdown Structure and enter it in Microsoft Project

• Create a schedule with activities, duration, resource assignments and interdependencies

• Enter the schedule in Microsoft Project

• Determine the project communication requirements and reports

• Use Microsoft Word templates and the Microsoft project schedule to print project reports

• Establish a project management control and monitoring system

• Track and analysis actual project data in Microsoft Project

• Manage project schedule and resource conflicts in Microsoft Project

• Close the project

Target Audience:

Project team leaders, project team members, or project managers who have little or no prior formal project management experience and desire to learn how to effectively manage a project while leveraging the use of Microsoft Office and Project.

Course Outline

Module One–Project Framework

• Define basic terminology

• Explain the triple constraints

• Distinguish between product and project activities

• Identify project life cycle

• Identify product life cycle

• Determine project team organization

Module Two–Project Start Up

• Write project objectives

• Develop project charter using a MS Word template

• Identify key milestones

• Develop stakeholder management plan using a MS Word template

• Plan review Meetings

Module Three–Plan the Project

• Describe the planning processes

• Gather project Requirements

• Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Develop the risk management plan using a MS Word template

• Plan the resource requirements using a MS Word template

• Estimate task duration using a MS Excel template

• Estimate project cost using a MS Excel template

• Construct the project task network

Module Four–Enter the Plan in Microsoft Project

• Using Microsoft Project as a Tool

• The Microsoft Project Screen

• Enter General Project Information

• Enter and edit Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Enter Resource Data

• Assign Resource(s) to Tasks

• Enter and View Project Costs

• Set Task Relationships

• Analysis the critical path

• Optimize the schedule—resolving resource conflicts and shorten schedule techniques

• Print project reports

Module Five–Work the Plan

• Develop the change management plan

• Create the baseline in Microsoft Project

• Monitor and control project plan using Microsoft Project

Module Six–Project Close

• Acquire customer acceptance

• Conduct lessons learned

• Archive project documentation  

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