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Course:
Outline
Lesson 1: Project Management Fundamentals
- Foundation Concepts
- Project Management Challenges
- Organizational Project Management (OPM)
- Project Environment
Lesson 2: Roles and Responsibilities
- Stakeholders
- Project Sponsor
- Project Manager
- Leadership
- Motivational Theories/Approaches
- Project Team
Lesson 3: Development Approach and Life Cycles
- Project Development Approaches
- Life Cycles
- Project Management Processes
Lesson 4: Business Analysis Frameworks
- Business Analysis
- Business Analyst (BA) Role
- Requirements
- Project Approach Influence
- Stakeholder Collaboration
Lesson 5: Start the Project
- Needs Assessment
- Business Documents
- Project Initiation
- Project Charter
- Project Stakeholders
- Stakeholder Communications
- Tailor the Project Approach
Lesson 6: Predictive (Plan-Based) Project Methodology
- Project Management Plan
- Scope Management Subsidiary Plan
- Schedule Management Subsidiary Plan
- Resources Management Subsidiary Plan
- Estimating Techniques – Time and Cost
- Cost Management Subsidiary Plan
- Quality Management Subsidiary Plan
- Uncertainty and Risk
- Risk Management Subsidiary Plan
- Integration of Project Plans
Lesson 7: Adaptive Approaches
- Adaptive Approaches or Frameworks
- Adaptive Fundamentals
- Adaptive Team Resources
- Adaptive Planning
- Adaptive Requirements
- Adaptive Prioritizing and Estimating
Lesson 8: Project Work and Delivery
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Detecting and Solving Problems
- Monitoring Progress – Resources and Quality
- Monitoring Progress – Risks and Issues
- Measuring Performance
- Communicating Performance
- Project Controls
- Validating Requirements
Lesson 9: Transitioning and Closure
- Transitioning of Results
- Project Closure
- Knowledge Transfer
- Benefits Realization
Audience
Any individual wanting to build their career as a project manager.
Prerequisites
None.
What You Will Learn
This course provides information relating to an individual’s understanding of:
- Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
- Predictive Plan-Based Methods
- Adaptive (Agile) Frameworks/Methods
- Business Analysis Frameworks
See below for the course objectives.
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
- Demonstrate an understanding of the various project life cycles and processes.
- Distinguish between predictive and adaptive approaches.
- Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of project roles and responsibilities.
- Explain the importance of the role the project manager plays.
- Determine how to follow and execute and respond to planned strategies of frameworks – e.g., communication, risks, etc.
- Demonstrate an understanding of common problem-solving tools and techniques.
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies
- Identify the suitability of a predictive, plan-based approach for an organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
- Determine and give examples of the activities within each process.
- Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule.
- Determine how to document project controls of predictive, plan-based projects.
Agile Frameworks/Methodologies
- Explain when it is appropriate and sustainable to use an adaptive approach for the organizational structure.
- Compare the pros and cons of adaptive and predictive, plan-based projects.
- Identify the suitability of adaptive approaches for the organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
- Identify organizational process assets and environmental factors that facilitate the use of adaptive approaches.
- Determine how to plan project iterations.
- Determine how to document project controls for an adaptive project.
- Distinguish between the components of different adaptive methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Scaled Adaptive Framework (SAFe), Kanban, etc.).
- Determine how to prepare and execute task management steps.
Business Analysis Frameworks
- Demonstrate an understanding of business analysis (BA)roles and responsibilities.
- Demonstrate the importance of stakeholder and team communication to the business analyst role.
- Determine how to gather requirements and using the best approach for a situation.
- Explain the application of a product roadmap.
- Determine how project methodologies influence business analysis processes.
- Validate requirements through product delivery.