Project Management Fundamentals

Introduction to project management

• Project Lifecycle & key terms
• Stakeholder awareness and team composition

• The project selection criteria
• Developing the project charter
• Team mobilisation

• Gathering requirements and understanding Scope
• Identifying deliverables and success criteria
• Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Defining activities, sequency and setting milestones
• Defining resource requirements
• Creating an effective communication plan
• Identification of the critical path
• Estimating cost and developing a budget
• Defining project risk

• Monitor and control project work
• Establishing effective project meetings and project Governance
• Manage Communication plan and effective information distribution
• Manage project reporting and Key Performance Indicators KPI's
• Managing project Risks and Issues
• Managing project scope and the change control process

• Performing project closure activities and achieving sign-off
• Conducting effective lessons learned
• Administrative closure procedure

• Common project pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Q&A