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The PMBOK Guide in Practice: Applying the Principles to Your Projects

 
Course: 915     Type: RealityPlus     Duration: 3 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Successfully manage projects with the most relevant principles of the PMBOK® Guide - Third Edition
  • Complete the key tasks necessary to get a project authorized and underway
  • Perform the planning tasks required to effectively manage a project
  • Monitor, analyze, predict, act and report on the daily activities of a project
  • Effectively close the project and leverage the lessons learned
  • Tailor PMBOK® Guide based processes to the unique characteristics and challenges of your projects

Course Benefits
Implementing a practical and useful project management methodology based upon the PMBOK® Guide is a daunting task for any organization. In this course, you apply the most relevant and practical principles of the PMBOK® Guide to successfully manage projects in your organization. You learn to employ a core project management methodology that can be tailored to projects of all types and sizes.

Who Should Attend
Project managers, project teams and others who want to deliver successful projects using the PMBOK® Guide-based approach. Project management skills at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," are assumed. PMP® certification is not required to take this course.

Through an immersive, multimedia-enhanced case study, you gain practical experience applying the PMBOK® Guide best practices to projects. Activities include:
  • Prioritizing the set of PMBOK® Guide processes
  • Meeting the requirements of the project authorization gate
  • Creating a project communications management plan
  • Iteratively addressing risks during project planning
  • Computer-based simulation of the daily activities of an effective Project Manager
  • Tailoring and scaling the method for a range of situations
  • Adapting the process to significant project scope changes

Course 915 Content
Navigating the PMBOK® Guide
  • Exploring the 44 processes
  • Personalizing your copy of the PMBOK® Guide
  • Identifying the core processes for any project
Initiating a Project
Obtaining authorization to proceed
  • Soliciting senior management buy-in
  • Agreeing to the rules of project engagement
Developing the Project Charter
  • Identifying stakeholder roles, responsibilities and expectations
  • Researching and documenting business needs
Building the Preliminary Scope Statement
  • Defining and agreeing to the high-level project scope
  • Leveraging Organizational Process Assets (OPA) and Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF)
Planning the Project
Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Creating a comprehensive project schedule
  • Building the performance measurement baseline: scope, schedule and cost
Refining the scope of the project
  • Adding additional detail in a work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Translating the WBS into work packages
  • Progressively elaborating project requirements
Developing the schedule
  • Defining and sequencing activities
  • Estimating activity duration and required resources
Identifying and managing risks
  • Balancing project risks, costs and benefits
  • Performing qualitative risk analysis
  • Selecting appropriate risk responses
Creating an effective communication plan
  • Sending and receiving information across project levels
  • Providing relevant information to stakeholders
Keeping the Project on Track
Monitoring actual project performance
  • Receiving progress reports from the team
  • Meeting significant milestones
  • Managing stakeholder expectations
Analyzing project variables
  • Measuring progress against the project plan
  • Comparing actual performance to baseline
  • Verifying scope
Predicting future project trends
  • Forecasting variances
  • Assessing data measurements
Taking action
  • Handling deviations from the project plan
  • Controlling scope, schedule and cost
  • Making necessary changes and corrections
Reporting on project progress
  • Disseminating performance information
  • Archiving project data
Closing the Project
Achieving an orderly end
  • Confirming work meets the agreed upon requirements
  • Obtaining formal acceptance of the final product, service or result
  • Handing off the final product or a project phase
Archiving project data
  • Capturing and documenting the lessons learned
  • Preserving project documentation for future use
Tailoring the Core Methodology
Modifying the process to meet your unique needs
  • Scaling the approach for project size: small, medium and large
  • Varying the model for specific project types
Meeting organizational preferences
  • Choosing between document heavy versus document light
  • Selecting the degree of formality required for your process
A Toolset for Going Forward
Adapting to changing situations
  • Recognizing the value of an iterative approach
  • Customizing processes to meet your needs
Successful implementation strategies
  • Building upon your successes
  • Enhancing your project management toolbox

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