Applied Project Management

This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents.

Course Outline

This project simulation course combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents. You’ll walk through a complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Discover and validate a full range of PMBOK-specific project management processes from project charter through project closure.

You will work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan based on a case study provided by your instructor. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Use available progress information to determine the project’s earned value. Consider various and competing expectations from stakeholders, including the customer, sponsor and team, as you develop and present plans to address expectations in ways that benefit the project.

Based on approval from the project sponsor (through role-play presentations to the instructor), you will then manage the project in a simulated environment through to completion, including the formation and management of the project team, project tracking in MS Project, and regular project status reports to management.

At the conclusion of the course, you will provide a closing presentation to the project sponsor that includes a thorough review of the results, lessons learned, and recommendations for improvements.

What you'll learn

• Build a business case for a project
• Develop the project charter and scope
• Obtain sign-off from sponsors and buy-in from stakeholders
• Build a successful project team
• Learn estimating techniques
• Create a project schedule that is realistic and manageable
• Track your project using Microsoft Project
• Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
• Create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and stakeholder management
• Develop an integrated change management plan
• Manage project change
• Close a project

Hands-on-exercises

• Develop the Project Charter
• Build the Work Breakdown Structure
• Create a Network Diagram
• Identify the Critical Path
• Develop a Resource Assignment Matrix
• Evaluate Project Quality
• Assess Project Risk
• Determine Project Cost
• Plan Project Procurement
• Create Change Control Plans
• Estimate the Budget
• Prepare a Status Report for Schedule and Budget

Who needs To attend

Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, product managers, and program managers.

Course outline

1. Laying the Foundation

• Project Management Institute (PMI’s) framework
• Life cycle processes
• Knowledge areas

2. Defining a Project

• Difference between projects, programs, and reoccurring activities
• Build a business case for your project
• Understand the significance of the triple constraints
• Develop your project scope by using a project charter
• Identify and manage stakeholder expectations

3. Creating the Schedule

• Seven steps of successful planning
• Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Create effective estimates
• Diagram a project
• Identify the critical path

4. Planning for Quality

• Customer expectations
• Develop quality plans and methods
• Quality assurance and control

5. Managing the Risks

• Identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks
• Mitigation strategies
• Contingency planning

6. Dealing with Vendors

• Procurement planning
• Solicit, select, and manage vendors

7. Managing the Project

• Baselining your project schedule
• Effectively track and report progress
• Formal change control processes
• Managing organizational change

8. Closing the Project

• Best practices for formal sign-off
• Conducting lessons-learned reviews
• Archiving project documents

9. Case Studies

• Managing cross-functional teamsDealing with conflicting expectations

 

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Familiarity with MS Project.

Certificates offered

35 PMI PDUs

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

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Global Knowledge
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Global Knowledge Calgary
Sunlife Plaza, Suite 200, West Tower
144 - 4th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada   T2P 3N5

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- do we get a certifiacate for completing the courseÉ - although the instructor did give us excercises to do I would have liked a few more - almost like a test, so that I made sure I retained and understood what was taught. I`m a learn to do by doing person and like the instrutor lead courses so I can have someone there to explain in my terms how things work. I`ll have to really use the online excercises to make sure Ì am confident when I need to do something in Excel.

Reviewed by Delores P. 2012

   

Should be time allocated for questions and answer

Reviewed by Vinod P. 2012

   

The instructor was excellent as was the hands-on learning approach. The only thing I took issue with was the fact that there were a lot of bilingual persons taking the course and they tended to ask questions in French, during this English class. The instructor was trying very hard to explain everything in both languages, but I felt that these students should have requested a French-speaking classroom setting if they wanted to speak French.

Reviewed by Sheila D. 2012

   

Very professional. Facility clean and comfortable.

Reviewed by Christine P. 2012

   

For the cost of this course, a hard copy of the course handout should be provided as the classes follows the handout word for word.

Reviewed by Caroline P. 2012

   

The facilities at Global Knowledge were great. The Instructor was very knowlegable and made it easy to learn the material. It was a very good experience:)

Reviewed by Tonia L. 2012

   

Note: We had 2 different trainers during this 3 day course. Course: Terminology should reflect North America and be consistent with our business lingo.

Reviewed by Harman M. 2012

   

Found the course very informative. I had little exposure to Sharepoint and learned a number of things I didn't know. Plan to take the next level of training

Reviewed by Michael R. 2011

   

A charged mannul would be provided for students to make notes whereever they think instructions are important as reminders

Reviewed by jinxiu z. 2011

   

The course is so expensive to be payed by oneself. In almost all the others participants their companies pay the fee.

Reviewed by Ricardo T. 2011

   

No course books were provided for us to take.

Reviewed by Hala M. 2011

   

Course was very detailed but more time would be helpful during workshops. An additional day would help lessen the course load.

Reviewed by Roydon F. 2011

   

should have discuss some case studies,,overall A+

Reviewed by Syed A. 2011

   

Our instructor was very knowlegable and he provided excellent real life stories.

Reviewed by Stephen W. 2011

   

The course was very relevant. I was able to apply the knowledge I aquired in the course to my job on the very next day. The only complaint I have is with the temperature of the room. It was freezing! Students has to wear a jacket or sweater. We were told the temp gage was shared with another classroom that was quite warm so they had turned the temp very low causing our room to be very uncomfortable.

Reviewed by Yasmine I. 2011

   

Given the cost of the course, the hardcopy of the manual should have been provided. It would have been useful to make notes alongside the material as we went along.

Reviewed by Jeff P. 2011

   

I am very disappointed with the handouts. I was told I could go online and download a copy of the manual, the problem is that I would like the printed copy of the manual. I chatted online with one of your technitian who was unable to help me. Then I was told someone would contact me by phone to help me. That never happened. When taking a training course, a person EXPECTS to leave the course with ALL the material.

Reviewed by Betty M. 2011

   

Great course provider, keep it on your roaster

Reviewed by Catherine G. 2011

   

Course content and labs were very good, everything worked as expected.

Reviewed by Francisco C. 2011

   

I really enjoyed this course and was surpised how ell everything was run...enjoyed the instructer very much (Par) and would like to take an other course with him. I wish we could have taken the work book home with us though!!!

Reviewed by gail h. 2010