advanced project management training Course Content
Project Selection & Initiation
- Initiating Projects
- When Do Projects Start? Defining the Project Life Cycle
- Tips for Defining the Start of a Project
- Consideration for Initiating Projects
- Strategic Planning
- Prioritizing Projects
- Selecting Projects
- Key Elements of Initiating Process
- Guidelines for Project Initiation
Project Execution Methodologies
- Project Execution Methodology
- Starting Project Work
- The Value of a Good Start
- Ensuring a Successful Start to Project Work
- Stakeholder Commitment & Team Resources
- Inhibitors to Future Success & How to Deal with Them
- The Process for the Commencing Project Work
- Getting Work Done
- Facilitating Project Work
- Communicating Work Expectations
- Managing Issues & Action Items
- Key Learning Points
- Progress, Status & Forecasting
- Capturing Progress
- Updating the Schedule
- Forecasting Predicting Future Project Work
- Recognize Process Groups
Project Variance & Control
- Project Variance & Control
- Performance Metrics
- A Framework for Performance Reporting
- Understanding Different Types of Metrics
- How Metrics Interact
- Measuring the Projects & Generating Metrics Reports
- Interpreting Project Metrics
- Baseline Metrics
- Earned Value Analysis Metrics
- Understanding the Causes of Variance
- Defining Project Variance
- Understanding Different Types of the Project Variance
- Root Contributors to Variance
- Methods for Identifying Root Contributors
- Taking Corrective Action to Overcome Variances
- Definition or Intention of Corrective Action
- Understanding the Points of Leverage
- Managing Change, Quality & Risk
- Responding to the Dynamic Nature of Projects
- Using Process to Create Transparency
- Control Processes for the Project Change
- Quality Controls
- Quality Assurance
- Risk Monitoring & Control Process
Project Closure & Learning
- The Closing Process
- The Challenge of Project Closure
- When and How to Learn from Projects
- Initial Sizings
- Detailed Estimating
- Unforeseen Events
- Project Closure Reporting & Archiving Processes
- Step 1 – Obtain Formal Acceptances
- Step 2 – Shut Down the Work Engine
- Step 3 – Analyze Metrics, Baseline & Change Data
- Step 4 – Evaluate Processes & Documentation
- Step 5 – Documenting Project Events & Circumstances
- Step 6 – Generating Lessons Learned
- Step 7 – Finalize & Share the Project Closure Report
- Step 8 – Celebrating the End of the Project
- Step 9 – Archiving Project Records
- Step 10 – Conduct Follow-Up Surveys as Negotiated