This is a practical project management course focusing on the five core PM processes and the nine PM knowledge areas as outlined in the PMBOK Guide. The course is designed for those managers and project participants with few or no previous formal project management training. Theoretical framework, tools and techniques, and all the project management processes in the PMBOK Guide will be introduced and supplemented by real-life soft skills for project managers. Case studies and group discussion are key components of this course to help illustrate the principles behind PMBOK? Participants will learn all the key project management concepts as such as Project Charter, Scope Statement, WBS, Project Schedule Network Diagrams, Cost Estimation Methods, and Earned Value Analysis, as well as formal processes for creating a formal project communications plan, human resources plan, procurement plan, quality management plan and risk plan. Last but not least, the course will cover key leadership skills for successful project management, including people management skills, communications skills, and vendor management skills.

1. Overview of Project Management

-Basic concept review and project management trend

-Comparison of projects with ongoing operations

-Project stakeholders, objectives and tradeoffs

-Organization structure and project management

-Life cycle models and the interaction among process

-Overview of the process groups and nine knowledge areas

 

2. Integration Management

-Overall project planning

-Change control management

-Overall project monitoring and control

-Project closure

 

3. Scope Management

-Scope definition, planning, and control

-Developing WBS and project plan

-Scope change control

 

4. Time Management

-Project scheduling

-Network diagrams, PDM,ADM and dependency

-Resource leveling

-Schedule control

-Advanced topics including critical and duration compression techniques

 

5. Cost Management

-Project costing, sizing, budgeting, cost/benefits analysis

-Analogous estimation, parametric estimation, bottom-up estimation

-Reserve analysis and contingency planning

-Earned value analysis

 

6. Risk Management

-Concept of risk

-Tools & techniques in risk planning, identification, analysis, risk response and control

-Risk planning techniques including brainstorming, Delphi method, SWOT analysis

-Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis

-Decision tree and Monte Carlo analysis

 

7. Quality Management

-Basic concept of quality management, quality standards, cost of quality, tools of quality management

-Quality movement, quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and continuous process improvement

-Seven basic tools of quality control

 

8. Human Resources Management

-Organization planning, staff acquisition, & team development

-Team building, group dynamics, fundamental interpersonal relations and behaviour

-Maximizing interpersonal relationships

-Motivational basis for human interaction

-Sources pf power for project managers

 

9. Communication Management

-Concepts, tools and techniques in project communication planning, distribution, and reporting

-Stakeholder analysis

-Managing conflicts: Sources of conflict, organizational conflict-management styles

-Essential project management communication skills: Facilitating meeting, emails,

-Proactive listening, and presentation

-Understanding and mastering negotiating-stages of negotiation, negotiation as a collaborative process, and negotiation tactics

 

10. Procurement Management

-Organizing and planning for contracting, contract payment types, contract administration and closing

-The life cycle of a contract

-Contract types, contracting methods, and risk in contracts

-Make-or-buy decision

 

11. Professional Responsibilities

-Code of ethics

-Professional responsibilities of a project manager

-Socio-economic factors in projects