Understanding Projects & Stakeholder Management

• Understand the phases in the life cycle of projects and their significance
• Appreciate the need for use of project management tools

Project selection

• Identify and apply appropriate numeric & non-numeric selection models for project selection

Project Planning

• Understand the various aspects involved in project management
• Disintegrate the project into smaller tasks and work packages
• Create and develop a responsibility matrix based on Work Break Structure
• Develop a network schedule for a project and estimate the time for completion
• Analyze Project Network and determine project completion time using CPM
• Estimate the probability of project completion in a specific time
• Plan for budget

Project Execution Control

• Control Schedules, Costs, specifications or quality
• Monitor both the cost and schedule of a project in financial terms

Project Auditing

• Do continual and periodic verification of the project progress
• Identify deviation from plans and take actions if required
• Ability to audit a project and identify deviations

Project Termination

• Understand the conditions warranting project termination
• Process involved in terminating a project

Project Risk Management

• Ability to identify potential risks in a project.
• To categorize the project risks.
• To define the strategies for managing the project risks.

Project Quality Management

• Project Quality Management
• Ability to interpret the results of the tools to monitor the quality.

Project Human Resource Management

• Understand human issues in managing projects
• Manage teams for achieving project objectives

Project Procurement Management

• Identify the need for outsourcing
• Plan the procurement
• Understand the 3 R’s of procurement

Developments in Project Management

• Understand the concept of critical chain in projects
• Understand the application of MS Projects to manage the projects efficiently

Agile Project Management

• Understand the dynamic nature of project planning and execution
• Understand the concept of agile for software projects

Introduction to PMP

• Understand the FAQs of PMP
• Become confident to take PMP