07-04-2025 - 11-04-2025	3500	دبي

Course Introduction:

Discover what project management can do for your organization in this concentrated. As a stakeholder and manager, learning the fundamentals of project management can help you better distinguish between projects that are struggling and those that are succeeding.

In this course, you will examine the life cycle of projects, and you will learn essential terminology that will help you communicate more effectively with your project management staff. You will discover project management best practices so you can ensure that they are being followed at your organization, and you will gain an understanding of your role as a project stakeholder and the responsibilities you have to the project.

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to learn:

The project life cycle
The 10 knowledge areas of the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK^® Guide) - Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013
Basic project management terminology and concepts
Your role and responsibility as a stakeholder
Roles and responsibilities of the team
Define project scope and setting expectations
Build an effective project schedule
The importance of a communication plan
Risk management best practices
Manage project change through formal change control processes

Hands-On Exercises

Project Management Terminology
Developing the WBS
Network Diagramming and Critical Path

Who Should Attend?

Program managers, senior management, and executives interested in understanding how project management can make their organization more effective at getting work done.

Course Outline:

Day 1:

Project Management Framework

Explore the Project Management Institute (PMI)^® framework for project management including the life cycle processes and knowledge areas, and identify core and facilitating processes. You will become familiar with the project management vocabulary during this section.

The Project Management Institute
Five Process Groups
Life Cycles
10 Knowledge Areas

What is a Project?
Project Management Terminology

Day 2:

Initiating

Discover the importance of the business case to support the start of a new project, establish the project scope, analyze stakeholder needs, identify constraints and assumptions, and build a communication plan.

Five Steps of Project Initiation
The Project Charter
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Roles and Responsibilities and the RAM
Sign-Off Process

Day 3:

Planning

Learn the seven steps of successful planning and practice developing a work breakdown structure, effective estimates, diagramming a project, and identifying the critical path. Identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks through mitigation strategies and contingency planning. In addition, discover the importance of formal change control processes and managing organizational change as part of the project life cycle.

Communications Management
Risk Management
Change Management
WBS Basics
Decomposition
The Sticky Note Technique

Scheduling Basics

Precedence Relationships
Network Diagramming
Critical Path Analysis
Using the Network Diagram
Resource Allocation
Resource Leveling
Schedule Compression

Day 4:

Controlling and Closing

Explore the relationship between planning, execution, and control, and learn a structured approach to project control. Understand how to use earned value as a powerful tool for assessing and reporting current and predicted future conditions of the project.