MMSPM004: Project Management Principles
This comprehensive foundation course focuses on the project management principles and best practices aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and many of the GAO Guides, helping you obtain knowledge, tools, techniques, and best practices to successfully manage a project from initiation to final closeout. You will learn techniques designed to help concepts and forms the basis for future, more advanced studies.
Outline:
Defining Federal Projects
- Characteristics of a project
- Sources of projects
- The project charter
Planning Federal Projects
- Project management framework
- The importance of planning projects
- The project management plan
- Planning approaches
Communicating with Stakeholders
- Identifying project stakeholders
- The communications process
- The communications management plan
Breaking Down Project Work
- Overview of the work breakdown structure (WBS)
Estimating Project Resources
- The purpose of scheduling
- The scheduling process
- Determining activities
- The network diagram
- The responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
- Activity duration estimates
- The critical path
- Portraying and analyzing the schedule
- Balancing scope and schedule
- Cost estimating
- Developing cost estimates
- Attributing costs to the budget
- Managing to the project budget
Preparing for Change & Risk
- The change management process
- The change management plan
- The risk management plan
- The risk and opportunity management process
- The risk register
- The risk management plan
Determining the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
- Control gate reviews
- The performance measurement baseline (PMB)
- Setting the baseline
- The components of a risk management plan
- The risk management process
- The risk register
Managing the Project
- Identifying variance
- Earned value management
- Determining corrective action
- Rebaselining
Close the Project
- Recognizing team performance
- Documenting lessons learned
