This session will cover:

• Project Versus Operations
• Project Versus Program
• Example: List of Projects

This session will discuss the needs of project management and will compare it with project and program management concepts.

This session will cover:

• Portfolio Functions
• Example: Strategic Projects
• Example: List of Projects

This session will discuss the alignment of projects with strategy. The participants will be able to understand the functions of portfolio management.

This session will cover:

• Project Life Cycle & Process Groups
• Project Life Cycle Types
• Example: Project Life Cycle

This session will compare the difference between project life cycle phases and process groups. Participants will be able to access the different needs of projects and design project life cycle.

This session will cover:

• Organization Structures
• Project Manager Role
• Example: List PM Responsibilities

This session will discuss the Organization structure types and role of project manager in it. articipants will be able to list their responsibilities as Project Manager.

This session will cover:

• Project initiation Needs
• Project Initiation Cases
• Example: Project Charter

This session will explore the trategic & operational needs of project initiation, and will help participants to create a project charter for selected project.

This session will cover:

• Stakeholders and their Types
• Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
• Example Stakeholder Engagement

This session will discuss the types of stakeholders. Participants will be able to analyze and assess stakeholders needs and expectations.

This session will cover:

• Communication Types
• Communication Planning
• Example Communication Management Plan

This session will provide the guidance to plan project communications. Participants will be able to align document project communication needs with their organization governance plan.

This session will cover:

• Project Management Needs
• Project Management Plan
• Example Project Sizing Matrix

This session will guide participants to assess the needs of project management for their projects. Project categorization will be used to develop sizing matrix.

This session will cover:

• Design Thinking for Requirements
• System Thinking for Scope
• Example Scope Statement

This session will guide participants to utilize empathy to gather project requirements. Design Thinking along with system thinking will be used to finalize project scope statement.

This session will cover:

• Quality Requirements
• Cost of Quality
• Example Quality Management Plan

This session will guide participants to differentiate quality concepts. Participants will be able to create a quality management plan with quality metrics to achieve quality standards.

This session will cover:

• WBS
• Activities
• Example WBS and Activity List

This session will guide participants to decompose scope statement into work break down structure. Participants will be able to differentiate WBS work packages and activities.

This session will cover:

• Dependency Types
• Lead Versus Lag
• Example Network Diagram

This session will guide participants to identify dependency needs of project activities. Participants will develop a project network diagram for duration estimation.

This session will cover:

• Resource Types
• Resource Breakdown Structure
• Example RAM and Histogram

This session will guide participants to estimate project resources. Specific estimation types will be discussed based on project status and availability of information.

This session will cover:

• Estimation Techniques
• Estimation Types
• Example Project Cost Estimates

This session will guide participants to estimate project resources, duration and cost. Specific estimation types will be discussed based on project status and availability of information.

This session will cover:

• Forward & Backward Pass method
• Free Float & Total Float Calculation
• Example Critical Path Analysis

This session will guide participants to use project schedule network diagrams to calculate critical path. Participants will perform forward and backward pass to calculate free float and total float.

This session will cover:

• Risk Identification
• Risk Audit
• Example Risk Response Plan

This session will guide participants to identify the risks based on available data and assess their impact and probabilities. Participants will be able to calculate contingency reserves based on risk information.

This session will cover:

• Risk Response Planning
• Risk Assessments
• Example Contingency assessment

This session will guide participants to develop risk responses for both positive and negative risks. Participants will also be able to monitor risks and create strategies to implement risk responses.

This session will cover:

• Schedule Baseline
• Cost Baseline
• Example Schedule Compression

This session will guide participants to finalize schedule and cost baselines using resource optimization and reserve management.

This session will cover:

• Agile Manifesto and Principles
• Agile Events, Artifacts and Roles
• Example Story map

This session will guide participants to understand the agile framework and compare it with traditional project management. Participants will be able to develop the story maps.

This session will cover:

• Iteration and Release Planning
• Team Velocity and Buffers
• Example Release Plan

This session will guide participants to estimate the agile projects. Participants will be able to develop a release plan for their agile projects.

This session will cover:

• Acquiring Project Team
• Developing Project Team
• Example Conflict Management

This session will discuss the strategies to acquire project resources, and will guide participants how to manage project resources with conflict management techniques.

This session will cover:

• Change Types
• Change Process
• Example Decision Making

This session will provide the steps to manage changes in the project. Participants will practice the decisionmaking process for change processing.

This session will cover:

• Procurement types
• Vendor Engagement
• Example Negotiation

This session will provide the steps to perform procurement in your project and utilize negotiation for value delivery.

This session will cover:

• % Versus Physical complete
• Example Calculate Earned value
• Example Project Forecasts

This session will explore the project controlling tools and techniques with practical examples of earned value calculations for both lagging and leading indicators.

This session will cover:

• Project versus Phase Closing
• Closing Activities
• Example Lesson Learned Document

This session will simulate the cases for project closing with an example of lesson learned activity.