Best Practices in Capital Project Management

Introduction

Delays, cost overruns, or quality problems can wreck your project. Keep it on course with this 3-day overview of project management. Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK®, this workshop helps you master the entire project management process.

You Will Learn How To:

• Manage projects with confidence

• Avoid dangerous shortcuts and omissions

• Monitor risks and correct trouble spots

• Put together a solid team and effective documentation

The benefit

• Learn all aspects of project management from the perspective of the PMBOK Guide

• Acquire necessary prerequisite knowledge to enter a PMP Exam Prep training program

• Learn the techniques of documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints

• Become skilled at identifying and performing stakeholder analysis

• Learn how to develop a WBS and create a project charter

• Get skills to determine the critical path of a project

• Learn how to staff your project for optimum results

Programme Content

Examining the Project Management Framework

• Exploring characteristics of projects

• Reviewing project management terminology

• Considering environmental influences

Reviewing the Project Management Body of Knowledge

• Describing the project management process groups

• The project management knowledge areas

• Project management competency standards

Initiating the Project

• Using project selection methods

• Defining project scope

• Documenting project risks, assumptions and constraints

• Identifying and performing stakeholder analysis

• Evaluating the project charter

Planning the Project

• Defining and recording requirements, constraints and assumptions

• Identifying project team members and defining roles and responsibilities

• Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)

• Developing the change management plan

• Identifying risks and defining risk strategies

• Obtaining plan approval

• Conducting the kick-off meeting

Executing the Project Plan

• Executing the tasks defined in the project plan

• Ensuring a common understanding and setting expectations

• Implementing a quality management plan

• Executing approved changes, actions and workarounds

• Improving team performance

Monitoring and Controlling the Project

• Measuring project performance

• Verifying and managing changes to the project

• Ensuring that project deliverables conform to quality standards

• Monitoring all project risks

Closing the Project

• Obtaining final acceptance for the project

• Getting financial, legal and administrative closure

• Releasing project resources

• Creating and distributing a final project report

• Archiving and retaining project records