Project Management Fundamentals & Best Practices
Location: Online Classroom + Live Instructor
Contact Hours/PDUs: 16 Hours
Schedule: 8:30 AM EST - 4:30 PM EST
Price: $895.00
Short Description:
This training class is perfect for those who are new to project management, or for those who want to learn best practices from a seasoned professional. This course provides tools, techniques, and best practices in a live, interactive case-study format. This class is led by a live, U.S.-based instructor in an interactive virtual classroom.
Course Quick Facts:
Location: Virtual Classroom (Live Instructor + Online Classroom)
Venue: Zoom Platform
Travel: No Need to Travel
Instructor: Live, US-Based Instructor
Materials: The FAST FORWARD MBA in Project Management (6th edition) Kindle Version (530 pgs.)
Online Content: Additional access to online content
Certificate: Certificate of completion awarded to the student upon completion of the class
Course Overview
The two-day Project Management Fundamentals course is a hands-on overview of setting project objectives (Initiating) then creating a project plan, to formally validate the feasibility of those objectives. The plan is then "executed" and teams report status and determine how to get the inevitably "trouble" project back on track.
This course allows time for fitting the real-life issues of leadership and communication in between the cracks of project management. The course follows adult learning principles, balancing instructor-led lectures and discussions with hands-on exercises and case studies.
Meeting Top-Down mandates with a crisp Bottom-Up plan forms the basis of understanding the truth about what is going to happen with a project, avoiding potential disasters, padded estimates, and other untruths inexperienced project managers engage in to survive their jobs.
Pre-requisites:
None
Audience:
Project managers and team leaders who have the responsibility for a project but have never attended a project management course.
Supervisors with multiple projects under their span of responsibility.
Senior staff member tasked with leading cross-functional corporate initiatives.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course, learners will be able to:
Use the discipline of project management to consistently achieve the Five Project Success Factors.
Systematically apply the proven techniques of project management to define, plan and control a project.
Create a project plan using standard project management techniques.
Use the project plan to manage the team, customers, management, and project sponsors.
Plan stakeholder communication based on stakeholder authority and involvement.
Understand the relationship between the science of project management and the art of leadership.
Course Outline:
Project Management Basics
Project Leadership: People Before Process
Agile & Waterfall: Choose a Development Process
Scope: Defining Project Goals and Boundaries
Schedules & Resources: What Needs to Happen & When
Budget: Project Estimations and Actual Costs
Risk: Minimize Threats, Maximize Opportunities
Communication: Engage Your Stakeholders and Win Their Trust
NOTE: This outline is subject to change.
Meet the Instructor: Dayle Beyer, PMP
Dayle Beyer is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 30 years of experience. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University and an MBA from Roosevelt University. Beyer has had roles as a project manager, business & systems analyst, delivery lead on various government and private sector projects.
Beyer is employed as a Principal Consultant at Inspire Excellence Solutions which provides Project Management, Business Analysis, and Agile coaching and training. She is the founder of ROANEnet a 501c3 non-profit that advocates for Digital Inclusion in Roane County, TN.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI) East TN Chapter and the Roane County Chamber of Commerce.