Project Management – Essentials

The 'Project Management – Essentials' course provides you with essential knowledge required to deliver successful projects. It covers the complete project lifecycle – from project initiation and definition, through project implementation, and finally to the often neglected project completion phase. This will lay foundation for you to make a career in Project Management field.

JOBSMONT's Project Management - Essentials course contents are designed by team of Senior Project Managers and Senior Program Managers to benefit you in getting Project Manager/Project Coordinator job and to make you survive in job easily and efficiently. This course suitable for those who wants to learn from foundation level of Project Management that how projects should be managed to achieve a successful outcome, Business Analyst who wants to become Project Manager, team leaders or persons aspiring to be competent project managers.

Upon completing this course, you will have the skills to:
  • Develop a Project Management Plan, Define Scope, Project Time Management, Project Quality & Human Resource Management, Project Procurement Management & Stakeholder Management and Determine Project Requirements
  • Develop a comprehensive project risk management plan
  • Know how to monitor time and cost performance during project execution
  • Communicate project progress effectively and enhance your ability to manage a project team
  • Identify the key processes and requirements of project management
  • Initiate a project, plan for time and cost, plan for project risks, communication, and change control, manage a project, execute the project closeout phase
Course Name: Project Management - Essentials
Course Code: PM001
Course Duration: 35 hours

Session 1: The Project Management Framework
  • Define what a project is and what project management is
  • Understand the 10 project management knowledge areas
  • Define a project life cycle
  • Identify and define project stakeholders
  • Specify influences of organizational structures on project management
  • Highlight the skills required for a project manager
  • Define the Project Manager's responsibilities
  • Identify social-economic environmental influences to projects
  • Define the 5 process groups of project management

Session 2: Project Integration Management
  • Highlight methods for project selection
  • Define the elements and importance of the project charter
  • Understanding the creation and use of preliminary scope statement
  • Identify project constraints
  • Define the project manager's role as integrator
  • Control gold plating through work authorization
  • Understand the value of documenting lessons learned for Organizational Process Assets
  • Create a project plan
  • Define the Execution of the project plan
  • Know the use of baselines to monitor the progress of the project
  • Define integrated change control
  • Administrative closure

Session 3: Project Scope Management
  • Development of a scope management plan
  • Development of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Implementing scope verification

Session 4: Project Time Management
  • Methods for developing a schedule
  • Resource Planning
  • Activity List creation and estimation
  • Developing network diagrams (CPM, PDM and ADM charts)
  • Using dependencies
  • Calculating the critical path(s) for the project
  • Calculating slack
  • Crashing and fast tracking a project
  • Resource leveling
  • Developing a schedule management plan
  • Use of CPM, and Monte Carlo to estimate the duration of the project
  • Schedule Control

Session 5: Project Cost Management
  • Cost estimating through analogous estimating, bottom up estimating, parametric estimating and computerized estimating tools
  • Earned value analysis
  • Precision of estimates
  • Understanding Present Value, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Payback Period, Benefit Cost Ratio and Opportunity Cost
  • Variable Cost, Fixed Costs, Direct Cost and Indirect Cost
  • Project Life Cycle Costing
  • Cost budgeting
  • Value Analysis
  • Cost control

Session 6: Project Quality & Human Resource Management
  • Project Quality Management
    • How to plan Quality Management
    • How to perform Quality Assurance
    • How to Control Quality
  • Human Resource Management
    • Human Resource Management Planning
    • Acquire Project Team
    • Develop Project Team
    • Manage Project Team

Session 7: Project Communication and Risk Management
  • Project Communication Management
    • Developing a communications plan.
    • Communication methods.
    • Communication blockers.
    • Performance reporting.
  • Project Risk Management
    • Developing a risk management plan.
    • Techniques for identifying risks.
    • Risk register.
    • Categorizing risks.
    • Qualitative risk analysis.
    • Quantitative risk analysis.
    • Using a decision tree.
    • Understanding what-if analysis.
    • Developing a risk response plan.
    • Risk response strategies.
    • Risk monitoring and control. Exam Practice Questions and Solutions Class Discussion

Session 8: Project Procurement Management & Stakeholder Management
  • Project Procurement Management
    • Plan Project Procurement Management
    • Conduct Procurements
    • Control Procurements
    • Close Procurements
  • Project Stakeholder Management
    • Identify Stakeholders
    • Plan Stakeholder Management
    • Manage Stakeholder Engagement
    • Control Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management - Essentials course is suitable for those who wants to learn from foundation level of Project Management that how projects should be managed to achieve a successful outcome, Business Analyst who wants to become Project Manager, QA Analysts, team leaders or persons aspiring to be competent project managers.

Any individual who may need to perform project management activities in their job role on either a formal or informal basis, or any project team members who want to enhance their knowledge of project management in order to interact more productively with a project manager and perform more effectively on a project team.

Also, anyone who is considering a career path in project management and desiring a complete overview of the field and its generally accepted practices can take up this course.

  • Project Management – Essentials is ideal for recent graduates who are dreaming to get into IT industry and this program will open door to get into Project Management.
  • If you have earned Master's or Bachelor's degree in IT and facing difficulty to get an IT job
  • Business Analysts who are dreaming to be a Project Manager
  • Embark yourself on a career as a Project Manager
  • Recently started working as a Project Manager
  • If you have applied for tremendous jobs but never received an interview call

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Career Tracks

Very few people start in the field as full-fledged project managers. Most are offered an assistant position on a project management team and are assigned responsibility for one aspect of the work. As you gain experience, you may be assigned more and more tasks to manage, until you're ready to lead others in completing an entire project. Other newcomers start out with primarily technical jobs, creating, tracking, and updating the schedule using a software program; reviewing documents, and writing reports.

Project Coordinator

Project coordinator is an entry-level position that offers exposure to the work done by project managers. It's usually an administrative position involving a great deal of paperwork. You generate and distribute the reports that keep the project management team, owners, company staff, and others informed of a project's progress. You also schedule meetings and assist the management team in any way possible.

Project Scheduler

For larger projects, a project scheduler runs the software, inputting the information supplied by the management team and updating files as needed. This is a technical position that involves a great deal of computer work and little actual management.

Assistant Project Manager

Assistant PMs do not necessarily assist the project manager directly. Rather, they're usually assigned specific tasks to manage. They meet regularly with the PM to report progress and problems.

Project Manager

In this position, you may run a project yourself or lead a management team, delegating task management to assistants. PMs report to the "owner" of a project-whether that's a real estate developer, government agency, or your company's senior management. You oversee budget and schedule, and take responsibility for the project's proper completion.

Senior Project Manager

Many large organizations that tackle multiple projects at once especially (IT, Banking and Telecom companies) employee Senior Project Manager. The senior project manager supervises a company's various project managers, coordinating the allocation of company resources, approving costs, and deciding which projects should take priority.