Project Management Fundamentals
18, 19, 21 & 22 October, 2020
Project Management Fundamentals
by Divya Nambiar
18, 19, 21 & 22 October 2020 | 7:00 – 10:00 PM [Dubai Time]
Total 12 hours of Online Instructor Led Training
Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.
This 12 hours online instructor led training provides practical skills, concepts, and principles that can be taken back to the job and implemented right away. The course format includes a mixture of lecture, case studies, numerous exercises including working on project management templates, and group discussions. All participants return to their workplace better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion.
Learning Outcomes
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Understand the approach for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and closing a successful project
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Apply the best practices for outlining project scope and learn strategies to minimize scope creep
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Examine approaches on how to manage the different stakeholders on a project
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Create components of Project Management Plan including Stakeholder Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structure (Scope), Risk Register
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Understand the triple constraints and concepts of planning time, cost, resources and risks on a project
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop is for anyone working on any kind of projects, or working with a project team or aspiring for a career in project management.
Course Outline
GETTING STARTED WITH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Identifying the Components and Characteristics of a Project
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Understanding the Project Management Life Cycle - Initiation to Closing
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Recognizing Project Success Criteria
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Defining the Role of a Project Manager and the team
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Stakeholders and their impact on project success
PROJECT INITIATION
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Project Charter
ACTIVITY 1: Developing a Project Charter -
Understanding Stakeholders
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Creating a Stakeholder Management Strategy
ACTIVITY 2: Building a Stakeholder Register with Stakeholder Management Strategy
PROJECT PLANNING
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Project Management Software – MS Project / Primavera / Others
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Determining the Scope of a Project – Requirements /Expectations / Deliverables
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Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
ACTIVITY 3: Work Breakdown Structure -
Understanding a schedule and how it is created
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Critical Path Method and PERT
ACTIVITY 4: Scheduling with Critical Path Method -
Estimating budgets and how it is created
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Resource Planning – Material / Machinery /Manpower / Others
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Human Resource Planning – Teams / Tasks / Roles
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Identifying, analyzing and responding to risks
ACTIVITY 5: Developing a basic Risk Register
PROJECT EXECUTION, MONITORING AND CONTROL, AND CLOSING
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Executing the Project Management Plan
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Managing the Team
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Monitoring Progress
ACTIVITY 6: Variances (Earned Value Management) and developing solutions -
Reporting Performance
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Closing the Project
Full price
AED 1,500 + VAT
(From 21 September 2020)
Early Bird Price
AED 1,200 + VAT
(valid up to 20 September 2020)
Special price for group registrations
All prices are per participant and excludes 5% VAT
About the Trainer
Divya Nambiar is a Project Management Expert with in-depth experience in handling large scale sustainable projects globally and a Corporate Trainer providing Project Management trainings across diverse industries. She has been a Subject Matter Expert and Reviewer to the upcoming Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide - Construction Extension.
She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), has a Masters in Project Management, a Bachelors in Architecture, a LEED AP BD+C (US Green Building Council).
