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Outline
Lesson 1 – Fundamentals and Core Concepts
- Project Management Discipline
- Organizational Project Management (OPM)
- Organization Structures
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Organizational Influences
- Life Cycles and Processes
- Development Approaches
- Organizational Culture
- Change Management
Lesson 2 – Leadership
- Leadership vs. Management
- Leadership Styles
- Servant Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Lesson 3 – Roles and Responsibilities
- Project Management Roles
- Stakeholder Roles
- Project Management Skills and Competencies
- Importance of Project Management
- Project Manager Influence
- Motivational Theories/Approaches
Lesson 4 – Project Initiation
- Project Initiation
- Project Charter and Kick-off Meetings
- Benefits Planning
- Product Roadmaps
- Stakeholders
- Stakeholder Communications
- Communications Management Plan
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan
Lesson 5 – Project Management Planning
- Planning Concepts
- Project vs. Product Management Plan
- Compliance and Quality
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Integrate Plans
- Planned Strategies and Frameworks
Lesson 6 – Predictive
- Predictive Approaches
- Process Groups
- Project Planning Components
- Requirements
- Requirements/Data Gathering Approaches
- Project Management Plan – Scope, Schedule and Cost
- Predictive Estimating Techniques
- Resources
- Quality and Risk
- Project Integrations
- Project Baselines
- Predictive Artifacts
- Project Controls and Measurement – Scope, Scheduled and Cost
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Control Quality
Lesson 7 – Adaptive
- Agile Mindset, Methodologies, and Frameworks
- Adaptive Plans
- Adaptive Scope and Iterations
- Adaptive Schedules
- Adaptive Estimating and Prioritization
- Adaptive Teams
- Activities and Artifacts
- Tracking and Measuring Progress
- Uncertainty and Risk
Lesson 8 – Business Analysis
- What is Business Analysis (BA)
- Business Analysis Domains
- BA Roles and Responsibilities
- Methodology Influences
- Validate Requirements
Lesson 9 – Project Closure
- Project or Phase Closure
- Benefits Realization
- Knowledge Transfer
Audience
Any individual wanting to build their career as a project manager.
Prerequisites
None.
What You Will Learn
This course provides information relating to an individual’s understanding of:
- Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
- Predictive Plan-Based Methods
- Adaptive (Agile) Frameworks/Methods
- Business Analysis Frameworks
See below for the course objectives.
Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
- Demonstrate an understanding of the various project life cycles and processes.
- Distinguish between predictive and adaptive approaches.
- Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of project roles and responsibilities.
- Explain the importance of the role the project manager plays.
- Determine how to follow and execute and respond to planned strategies of frameworks – e.g., communication, risks, etc.
- Demonstrate an understanding of common problem-solving tools and techniques.
Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies
- Identify the suitability of a predictive, plan-based approach for an organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
- Determine and give examples of the activities within each process.
- Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule.
- Determine how to document project controls of predictive, plan-based projects.
Agile Frameworks/Methodologies
- Explain when it is appropriate and sustainable to use an adaptive approach for the organizational structure.
- Compare the pros and cons of adaptive and predictive, plan-based projects.
- Identify the suitability of adaptive approaches for the organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
- Identify organizational process assets and environmental factors that facilitate the use of adaptive approaches.
- Determine how to plan project iterations.
- Determine how to document project controls for an adaptive project.
- Distinguish between the components of different adaptive methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Scaled Adaptive Framework (SAFe), Kanban, etc.).
- Determine how to prepare and execute task management steps.
Business Analysis Frameworks
- Demonstrate an understanding of business analysis (BA)roles and responsibilities.
- Demonstrate the importance of stakeholder and team communication to the business analyst role.
- Determine how to gather requirements and using the best approach for a situation.
- Explain the application of a product roadmap.
- Determine how project methodologies influence business analysis processes.
- Validate requirements through product delivery.