Project Management Fundamentals

Duration: Offered as a 90 minute webinar or 2 days in class

Course Overview

Project management isn’t just for construction engineers and military logistics experts anymore. Today, in addition to the regular duties of your job, you are often expected to take on extra assignments, and to get that additional job done well, done under budget, and done on time.
This course is not intended to take you from a supervisory or administrative position to that of a project manager. However, these topics will familiarize you with the most common terms and practices in terms of working on projects.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe what is meant by a project
  • Explain what project management means
  • Identify benefits of projects
  • Identify the phases of a project’s life cycle
  • Sell ideas and make presentations related to pitching a project
  • Prioritize projects
  • Begin conceptualizing your project, including goals and vision statements
  • Use project planning tools
  • Contribute to creating a Statement of Work

Course Outline

1. Course Overview

2. Defining Projects and Project Management

3. The Role of a Project Manager

4. Pre-Assignment Review

5. How Can Projects Help Me?

  • The Benefits of Projects
  • Case Study: Mary Marvelous

6. A Project’s Life Cycle

  • The Life Cycle
  • Stages of a Project

7. Selling a Project

  • Tom Peters
  • The Priority Matrix

8. Creating a Vision

  • The Vision Process
  • Making Connections

9. Project Goals

  • Setting Goals with SPIRIT
  • Your Project’s Goals

10. Using a Target Chart

11. Preparing Your Project

12. Laying Out the Project

  • The Statement of Work
  • Individual SOW
  • Project Planning Worksheet

13. Personal Action Plan