MMSPM002: Project Management CAPM

Overview:

Your ability to become a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today’s fast-paced and highly technical workplace. This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management and offers a job-related approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

Outline:

Understanding Project Management Fundamentals

• Lesson Introduction
• Define Project Management Processes
• Examine Organizational Influences on Project Management
• Describe Project Management Context
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Identifying Project Management Processes

• Lesson Introduction
• Outline Project Management Processes
• Recognize Process Groups
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Initiating a Project

• Lesson Introduction
• Prepare a Project Statement of Work
• Create a Project Charter
• Create a Preliminary Project Scope Statement
• Examine the Elements of the Project Management Plan
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Managing Project Scope

• Lesson Introduction
• Create a Scope Management Plan
• Create a Scope Statement
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure
• Review Deliverables and Work Results
• Control the Project Scope
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Estimating Project Time

• Lesson Introduction
• Create an Activity List
• Create a Project Schedule Network Diagram
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Estimate Activity Duration
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Developing the Project Schedule

• Lesson Introduction
• Draft a Project Schedule
• Identify the Critical Path
• Optimize the Project Schedule
• Establish a Schedule Baseline
• Control the Project Schedule
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Analyzing Project Cost

• Lesson Introduction
• Estimate Project Costs
• Estimate the Preliminary Cost Baseline
• Control Project Costs
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Measuring Project Quality

• Lesson Introduction
• Create a Quality Management Plan
• Execute a Quality Assurance Plan
• Perform Quality Control
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Organizing Human Resources for a Project

• Lesson Introduction
• Document the Project Roles, Responsibilities, and Reporting Relationships
• Acquire the Project Team
• Develop the Project Team
• Manage the Project Team
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Devising Effective Communication Methods

• Lesson Introduction
• Create a Communications Management Plan
• Distribute Project Information
• Report on Project Performance
• Manage Stakeholder Relationships and Expectations
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Analyzing Project Risks

• Lesson Introduction
• Create a Risk Management Plan
• Identify Project Risks and Triggers
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Develop a Risk Response Plan
• Monitor and Control Project Risk
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Processing Project Procurement

• Lesson Introduction
• Prepare a Contract Statement Of Work
• Prepare a Procurement Document
• Request Seller Responses
• Select Sellers
• Administer a Contract
• Close Project Contracts
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up

Integrating the Project Workflow

• Lesson Introduction
• Direct and Manage Project Execution
• Describe Monitor and Control Project Work
• Develop an Integrated Change Control System
• Use the Change Control Process
• Close the Project Administratively
• Lesson Lab
• Lesson Follow Up