Get started in PM

Classroom training: 1 day

Webinar: 3 hours

Get a quick start for managing your projects. This course teaches you the following essential ingredients for successful project management based on the Project Success Vector and PM² Methodology.

Target audience

• project & program managers and coordinators
• project team members
• schedule and risk management professionals
• middle and upper level management
• business analysts and experts

Working methods

lectures, reflections and exercises

Prerequisites

none

Program

Project Success Vector and characteristics

• Project Success Vector
• project characteristics
• problem-value chain
• project management challenges
• project building blocks (PM² Methodology)
• mindsets (PM² Mindsets)

Project organization (governance)

• project organization and responsibilities (PM² Governance)
• project roles and responsibility assignment matrix

Project initiation

• project approach
• roles, processes and outputs (PM² Methodology)
• S.M.A.R.T. criteria
• metrics and success criteria
• product breakdown structure (PBS)
• requirements definition
• cost and schedule estimates
• project charter
• phase closure

Project planning

• roles, processes and outputs (PM² Methodology)
• project planning principles
• work breakdown structure (WBS)
• scheduling, resourcing and budgeting
• project plan (handbook and work plan)
• phase closure

Project execution

• roles, processes and outputs (PM² Methodology)
• project monitoring and control
• quality assurance and control
• change and issue management
• risks and opportunities
• project reports, checklists and logs
• phase closure

Project close-out

• roles, processes and outputs (PM² Methodology)
• project-end review meeting and project evaluation
• project-end report and archiving
• results transfer and implementation

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