Industrial Leadership Course: Project Management

Course Purpose

Effective management of projects is essential in today’s ever-changing business environment. This one-day program will help participants gain a broad understanding of the basic core concepts of the project management process. Each stage of the project life cycle will be explored. Approaches that aid the project manager to complete the project on time and within budget will be identified and discussed. All the elements of project management, as prescribed by the Project Management Institute®, will be reviewed using interactive lecture and class exercise.

Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the definition of a project
• Explain the difference between Program Management and Project Management
• Apply project selection and portfolio management techniques to align projects
• With an organization’s business strategy
• Define the quadruple constraints of Project Management
• Manage customer requirements, develop project boundaries and define project success criteria
• Understand all aspects of project planning including scope development and planning, scheduling, staffing, budgeting, communication management, risk management, quality management and vendor/procurement management
• Apply interpersonal and communication skills that are critical to project execution and stakeholder/team management including conflict management, team motivation and techniques to effectively lead a cross-functional; cross-organizational team
• Monitor and control projects including managing integrated change control and obtaining project status
• Implement a formal project closing process including project reports and lessons learned