BCPM - Project Management Boot Camp

Summary

Maximize your training dollar and earn 35 PDU's in this weeklong Project Management course bundle.   This 5 day bundle includes courses PM01 Project Planning for Success, PM02 Project Execution and Control, and PM03 Scope Definition for Large, Complex Projects

Duration: 5 days
PDUs: 35
Compliance: 2008 PMBOK™ 

• The 5 key steps to project planning
• Direct answers to real world planning needs
• How to estimate project deliverables
• To understand the planning competencies as defined in the Project
• Management Body of Knowledge of theProject Management Institute
• The project planning and control model including outcomes during project control
• How to optimize the project plan and establish the project baseline
• How to manage scope changes, issues and assumptions, earned value and project performance trends
• How to manage risk, communications, quality and team performance
• How to track and manage time and cost variances during project execution
• How to close the project – including team, administrative and client processes
• To develop a project charter for large, complex projects
• To develop a WBS for a large, complex project using product development flow diagramming as a tool
• The value of the team approach to project scope development
• To apply the need for different visibilities of the WBS
  

Course take-aways

• CD with planning templates
• On-line and telephone support for past seminar participants
• Certificate of completion with 35 Professional Development Units

Seminar Outline

Introduction

Key concepts and definitions – Benefits - Project life cycle concepts – The matrix approach – Bates project planning and control process – Corporate planning considerations

Scope Definition
Developing the project charter – workshop - Developing the work breakdown structure – workshop – Developing the responsibility list

Work Package Planning (Project Deliverables)
Defining the work package – Estimating human resources and other requirements – The work package schedule – the work package budget

Schedule Planning
Steps to develop the schedule – Selection of a scheduling technique – CPM barcharting – workshop – Traditional and time critical scheduling – Schedule and resource analysis – Shortening the schedule - workshop

Budget Planning
Determining budget requirements – Developing a performance budget

Facilitating Processes
Risk management in the planning phase – Communications management in the planning phase – Quality management in the planning phase – Procurement management in the planning phase – Human resource management in the planning phase

Completing the Plan
Negotiating differences - Updating the project charter and obtain project plan approval – Preparing to implement the project plan –  workshop – Team presentations: the project plan

Implementing the Plan for Execution
Optimizing the project plan – Optimization dashboard – Establishing the project baseline – demonstration – Metrics for project control – demonstration – Transition from planning to execution: project kick-off and team mobilization – Administering the project: Project workbook, project repository, issues management, project update process

Project Execution and Control
Project scope control: change management objectives, change process model – Time and cost control: Time keeping, earned value analysis, updating process and work package and project levels, demonstration, trend analysis – Performance reporting – Execution and control of facilitating processes

Project Closure
Administrative closeout – Project assessment/evaluation – Project close-out report – Project close-out process

Definitions

Special characteristics of large complex projects – Life cycle effect on planning – The complete project model – The project planning model – Software support for scope definition – Executive needs – Impact of sophisticated communications and software systems

Project Charter Development

The project charter

Hierarchy of project charters

• The format
• Project definition: Clear project purpose
• Product definition
• Scoping statements

Project parameters:

• Schedule and budget objectives with class of estimates applied
• Known constraints
• Assumptions
• Risk assessment
• Project charter workshop

Advanced WBS Approaches

WBS planning considerations:

• Team approach to WBS development
• Multiple product projects/programs
• Using product development flow diagramming – Importance of the WBS dictionary
• Different visibilities of the WBS
• WBS workshop

Conclusion