Introduction to Project Management Concepts
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Introduce members of management or project teams to the key concepts of project management: scope definition, risk assessment, scheduling, writing a charter and much more. This one-day seminar provides an excellent overview of the seven key steps to successful projects. Participants will learn the value of planning, the benefits of building a strong team, the need to organize and manage the project, the need for a standard method that is used on all projects, the value of learning from mistakes as well as successes. |
This interactive workshop includes lecture, exercises, and attendee participation and is an excellent inclusion in new employee boot camps, project management kick-off initiatives or part of a series of workshops for building core competency in project management.
Target Audience
Aimed at anyone new to project management. Learn project management language and processes in this basic, hands-on workshop with minimal lecture and maximum class involvement.
Length of Workshop
1 Day
The major learning objectives for the workshop include:
- Understand the need to plan before acting
- Understand the value of working collaboratively
- Understand the benefits of involving the customer in the project
- Understand the need to clearly define scope and accountability
What You Will Learn
PM Concepts you will learn:
- What is project management and what are the four phases of a project
- What are the roles and responsibilities in project management
- Why the problem to be solved should be defined early in the project
- What are the key elements of a charter
- What are the key elements of a project plan
- What is change management
- How do you involve the customer in a project
- How do you gather requirements
- The importance of defining scope boundaries
- The need to focus on results
- Why it's important to assign accountability for every outcome
- The key elements of creating a successful team
- Why you need to create a communications plan
- The value of customer/sponsor review meetings
- What is included in a status report
- The value of documenting lessons learned
- How to create organizational learning
PDU's
7 units
Prerequisites
none
Materials Provided
Workshop Notebook