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This 3-day course provides project managers and project team members with essential tools needed to deliver successful projects. The course covers the complete project lifecycle –from project initiation and definition, through project implementation, and finally to the often neglected project completion phase. With hundreds of in-house client deliveries and hundreds of public sessions (delivered in association with Universities and Colleges across Canada), the Project Management Essentials course is firmly established as one of the most popular fundamental project management courses available.
Who Should Attend
- Project Managers — both new to project management and experience project managers who have not had formal project management training
- Project team members
- Account managers
- Anyone wishing to be more competitive in today’s job market
When delivered in-house, Project Management Essentials is very effective in “jump-starting” a team embarking on a medium to large-scale project.
Materials
- Course binder containing presentation slides, course reference book, case study, exercises and sample solutions
- Sample project management templates (e.g., project charters, communication plans, etc.)
- Reference CD containing course specific and general project management reference materials
- Certificate of completion (framed for in-house clients)
Learning Objectives
Participants of this course will be able to…
- Identify and avoid common causes of project failure
- Identify options for structuring a project team, and use learned criteria to select the best option for a given project
- Recognize common areas of project misunderstanding and how to avoid them. Examples: project purpose, key deliverables, risk tolerance, stakeholder roles, etc…
- Identify key areas of project risk, assess their impact and identify options for avoiding or mitigating the impact of risk
- Use work breakdown structures to identify the true scope of work. Break down a new or complex project into discrete, manageable activities complete with measurable deliverables.
- Model the flow and timing of a project during the planning stages, and test different “what-if” scenarios to both optimize and ensure that a project is “doable” before starting
- Reduce unnecessary project delays by identifying “critical path activities” and undertaking high priority tasks first
- Represent non-project activities, project unknowns and project uncertainties in a visible and justifiable way
- Assess project resource requirements, recognize resource assumptions, and evaluate resource conflicts and potential solutions
- Develop an accurate project budget
- Reduce the tendency for a project's scope to creep
- Improve overall project communication between stakeholders
- Create and maintain a productive project team environment
- Accurately compare the current project status to the original plan to identify potential problems and make proactive decisions
- Properly close out a project, and avoid the “project that never dies” syndrome
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Click here for the full PDF course description and outline.
For information on how to arrange for an in-house delivery of this course, or for information on the location and dates for public deliveries of this course, contact
in-house@wcpconsulting.com or call 905-660-7184.
* At the University of Waterloo, this course is called Project Management Applied Tools and Techniques. Participants of the Project Management Essentials course will earn credit towards a University of Waterloo Certificate in Project Management.
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