Basic Project Management

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How to implement the PMI project management best practices in the simplest, most deeply practical way.

What you will learn

• How to get stakeholder buy-in and senior management support at the beginning of your project, and maintain it throughout.
• How to plan your project VERY efficiently, so you know the scope, schedule, budget, and risks before you start.
• The critical importance of the project requirements, with best practices for documentation, review, and approval.
• Why the precedence diagram is your most important tool for planning and managing your project.
• Why the critical path means schedule is more important than cost, with a step by step animated example.
• How to prepare and brief the project plan, provide options to meet the triple constraint, and stay truthful.
• How to manage scope so you find the things inevitably missed, but don’t make it so good that it just blows up.
• How to manage the budget and its key drivers to obtain the best cost performance possible.
• The two most effective things you can do to manage quality and ensure the customer is happy with the project
  result.
• How to communicate constructively with the stakeholders about the project status, and obtain their assistance when needed.
• How to conduct lessons learned events to find out what did not go well and did go well, and easily gather them as you go.
• How to use the key software tools to support the project management life-cycle – WBS, precedence diagram, and Gantt chart.
• The three fundamental messages of the PM triple constraint, how they inter-relate, and how they affect risk.

What is the target audience?

• Those that need to manage projects, and want a deeply practical description of how to use the project management best practices across the life-cycle.
• Anyone involved in projects that wants to understand the practical essentials of the project management process.

Learning a new skill is very intimidating. There are a lot of tutorials, documentation and advice already out but how do you start and proceed with learning Advanced Project Management is unclear. You get pulled into many different directions and end up confused and overwhelmed.

We have spent a lot of time deconstructing what it takes to learn Project Management from scratch. What it is that you should focus on first and what you should avoid until later.