Project Management course content
Part 1
- Definitions – Environment
- A project
- What is a project
- Why manage projects
- Project organization
- Management
- Quality management
Part 2
- Before the project starts
- Initiating a project – the Project Charter
- The Scope document
- Planning: tasks
- Why Plan
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Product Breakdown Structure
- Approach plan
- Other planning methods
- Risk management
- Scope-document: exercise
Part 3
- During the project (Part A)
- Starting up a project: responsibility transfer
- Confirming the scope
- Communications planning
- Decisional authority
- Reporting
- Overall communications plan
- Planning for quality
- About project documentation
- Project time management ("Scheduling")
- Size of a task
- Network planning
- Resource planning
- Costs planning: the budget
Part 4
- Scheduling Software: MS Project
- A scheduling software’s role in Project Management
- MS Project: introduction and demonstration
Part 5
- During and after the project (Part B)
- During the project: general considerations
- Task Management
- Ordering Work
- Accepting work from team members
- Measuring actual time worked
- Meetings
- Exceptional situations
- Exceptions: general
- Change management
- Documenting progress
- MS Project during the project
- Negotiations in project management (Optional module)
- Closing a project