Project Management Workshops

Program QuickStart
Introduction to Project Management Concept

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