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Course: Outline
Lesson 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
- What is a Project
- Project Management Challenges
- Project or Operational Work
- Programs and Portfolios
- Project Environment
Lesson 2 – Project Roles and Responsibilities
- Stakeholders
- Project Sponsor Role
- Project Manager Role
- Project Team
Lesson 3 – Development Approach and Life Cycle
- Project Life Cycle
- Tailoring the Project Life Cycle
- Development Approaches
- Project Activities, Deliverables, and Milestones
Lesson 4 – Business Analysis Framework
- The Importance of Business Analysis
- The Business Analyst Role
- Requirements as the Focus of Business Analysis
- Stakeholders and the Business Analyst
- Influence of Project Approaches on Business Analysis
- Stakeholder Communications
- Communications Management Plan
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan
Lesson 5 – Starting a Project
- Understanding the Business Case
- Creating a Project Charter
- Establishing Communications
- Selecting and Tailoring the Project Approach
Lesson 6 – Predictive, Plan-based Project Methodology
- Tailoring a Predictive Life Cycle
- Developing a Project Management Plan
- Scope and Schedule (including Resource and Cost Estimations)
- Quality
- Uncertainty and Risk
- Project Integration
Lesson 7 – Adaptive Approaches
- Foundation and Considerations for Adaptive Projects
- Typical Steps in an Adaptive Project
- Requirements in Adaptive Approaches
- Plan Releases and Iterations
- Adaptive Approaches or Frameworks
Lesson 8 – Project Work and Deliver
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Monitoring and Controlling Processes
- Detecting and Solving Problems
- Measuring Performance
- Applying Project Controls and Forecasting
- Validating Requirements Through Project Delivery
- Closing and Transitioning
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.