Practical Project Management Workshop – Part I

 

 
Course Description:
 
As many organizations are delivering programs and projects to achieve their corporate strategy, experienced professional project managers become key resources for the company success. This practical project management workshop provides the tool and techniques, real life examples, and best practices for project managers or project leaders to improve managing and delivering projects in their organization effectively.
 
 
Course Audience:
 
Senior Technical Professionals (System Engineer, Technical Lead, Supervisor, IT Architect, Senior Programmer), Project Leads, Business Analysts, Project Control Officers, Junior Project Managers, and Functional Managers who want to gain hands-on project management experiences.
 
 
Course Benefits:
 
Participants will gain hands-on skill and will be able to analysis the project requirement; create project charter, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project schedule using Microsoft Project, and cost baseline; and apply project change control. Participants, who complete the course, will earn 20 PDUs and receive a certificate.
 
 
Course Structure:
 
The workshop will guide students through the real project cases to practically learn project management skills. Instructor will introduce the course assignment during the workshop. Students will be divided into different groups, work on the course assignment as a project team, and complete the project management assignments together. Instructor will review the assignments and provide the constructive feedback.
 
 
Course Material:
 
Student books, Quiz, Course Assignment, Certificate
 
 
Course Outline:
 
Introduction
- Course Overview
- Course Assignment
 
An overview of Project Management
- What’s a project?
- Core Project Management Process
- Project Life Cycle
- Initiating a project and preparing Project Charter
 
Project Scope Management
- Requirement Gathering
- Developing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Controlling project scope
 
Project Time Management
- Defining project time activities
- Creating network logic diagrams
- Preparing Gantt Charts by using Microsoft Project
- Applying critical path technique
- Controlling project schedule by using Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
 
Project Cost Management
- Estimating Project Cost
- Bottom-up and Top-down cost budget planning
- Controlling project budget by using Earned Value Management (EVM) technique
 
Project Change Control
- Establishing Change Control Committee
- Managing Project Change Requests
- Preparing Project Change Control Guidelines
 
Course Assignment
- Project team to delivery course assignment and presentation to instructor
- Feedback from instructor
- Present Best Project Team Award
 
 
Instructor Profile:
 
Mr. Tam has 14+ years experience in project management devoted in managing consulting, integration, and application development projects in Financial Institutions, Ontario Government, Telecommunication, Information Technology consulting, and Insurance. He is a certified Professional Project Manager (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI) and has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from York University.
 
As a project management award winner, Mr. Tam specializes in managing large and complex projects and rescuing troubled IT projects. He has provided coaching, mentoring, and training to junior project managers for many years. He has passion for teaching his students to delivery their projects successfully and to exceed their client expectation.
 

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