Project Management Foundation

Project Management Foundation  Training Curriculum

INTRODUCTION

•      Associations and standards
•      Code of ethics and professional conduct
•      Strategy of organization
•      What is project?
•      Projects business value
•      Project initiation context
•      What is project management?
•      Why is project management important?
•      Project management in organization
•      Relationship of Project, Program, Portfolio, & Operations management
•      Portfolıo, program and project management
•      Project and development life cycles
•      Process groups
•      Knowledge areas
•      Project management data and information
•      Tailoring
•      Project management business documents
•      Project success measures

 

ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH PROJECT OPERATE

•      Project influences
•      Enterprise environmental factors
•      Organizational process assets
•      Organizational governance frameworks

KEY CONCEPTS

•      Organizational structure type
•      Project management office (PMO)
•      Functional, operation and project manager
•      Leadership and management
•      Stakeholders
•      Constraints
•      Assumptions
•      Change request
•      Risk appetite
•      Risk threshold
•      Issue vs risk
•      Lessons learned
•      Resource
•      Explicit and tacit knowledge
•   Subject matter experts (SME)

TOOLS and TECHNIQUES – DATA GATHERING

•      Brainstorming
•      Checklists
•      Focus groups
•      Interviews
•      Market research
•      Questionnaires and surveys

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

•      Active listening
•      Feedback
•      Nonverbal communication
•      Presentation
•      Meeting management

INTERPERSONAL  and TEAM SKILLS

•      Conflict management
•      Political awareness
•      Cultural awareness
•      Decision making
•      Emotional intelligence
•      Facilitation
•      Influencing
•      Motivation
•      McGregor’s Theory of X end Y
•      Negotiation

PROJECT PROCESS GROUPS

•      Project management process groups
•      Relationship of project management processes

PROJECT INITIATION

•      Project initiation phase
•      Project initiation documents
•      Identify stakeholders / stakeholder register
•      Stakeholder analysis

PROJECT PLANNING

•      Develop project management plan
•      Expert judgement
•      Rolling wave planning
•      Plan scope management
•      Collect requirements
•      Document analysis
•      Define scope
•      Create WBS
•      Decomposition
•      Plan schedule management
•      What-if scenario analysis
•      Resource optimization
•      Define activities
•      Sequence activities
•      Estimate activity durations
•      Plan cost management
•      Estimate cost
•      Estimate range
•      Analogues estimating
•      Determine budget
•      Historical information review
•      Determine budget example
•      Plan quality management
•      Plan resource management
•      Colocation
•      Virtual team or distributed teams
•      Ground rules
•      Plan communications management
•      Communication methods
•      Communication methods
•      Communication models
•      Communication technology
•      Plan risk management
•      Identify risks
•      Assumption and constraint analysis
•      Swot analysis
•      Risk register
•      Risk analysis
•      Plan risk responses
•      Plan procurement management
•      Make-or-buy analysis
•      Bid documents
•      Plan stakeholder engagement
•      Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

PROJECT EXECUTION

•      Direct and manage project work
•      Manage quality
•      Process analysis
•      Root cause analysis
•      Problem solving
•      Acquire resources
•      Develop team
•      Tuckman ladder or model
•      Team building
•      Recognition and rewards
•      Training
•      Manage team
•      Manage communications
•      Project reporting
•      Information management
•      Implement risk responses
•      Conduct procurements
•      Bidder conference
•      Proposal evaluation
•      Manage stakeholder engagement

MONITORING and CONTROLLING

•      Monitor and control project work
•      Variance analysis
•      Perform integrated change control
•      Validate scope
•      Control scope
•      Control schedule
•      Control costs
•      Control quality
•      Audits
•      Control resources
•      Individual and team assessment
•      Monitor communication
•      Monitor risks
•      Control procurements
•      Performance reviews
•      Monitor stakeholder engagement

 CLOSE PROJECT or PHASE

•      Reasons for project closing
•      Closeout
•      Lessons learned
•      Closed procurement
•      Final report
•      Transition of services
•      Release of resources
•      Data repository.

COURSE LANGUAGE: Azerbaijani

CERTIFICATION: Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a certificate from ID TECH Academy.