Project Management - Fundamentals

Introduction to Project Management

• Project definition and characteristics
  

• Triple constraints and extended triple constraints
  

• Projects, programs and portfolios
  

• Project lifecycle
  

• • Technical phases and management phases
    

  • Lifecycle
    

• Pre-project
  

• Planning
  

• Delivery
  

• Closure
  

• • Key characteristics related to the lifecycle
    

Project Management

Pre-project

• Understanding the environment
  

• • SWOT analysis and PEST(EL)
    

  • Types of organization
    

• Defining the prerequisites and analyzing project viability
  

• • Project description (context, objectives, outcomes, scope and exclusions)
    

  • Project justification (reasons, options, costs, benefits, risks, investment appraisal)
    

  • Project product description (composition, derivation, quality expectations, acceptance criteria)
    

• Setting up project organization
  

• • Directing level (Project Board, Project Assurance, Change Authority)
    

  • Managing level Project Manager, Project Support)
    

  • Delivering level (Team Manager)
    

Planning

• Macro-planning
  

• • Establishing the baselines
    

• Scope (Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / Product Flow Diagram (PFD))
  

• Time (management stages, key decision points)
  

• Budget (S curve)
  

• • Defining the project management approaches
    

• Risk management
  

• Quality management
  

• Change management
  

• Configuration management
  

• Communication management
  

• HR management
  

• Procurement management
  

• • Setting up the project controls
    

• Performance criteria
  

• Tolerances
  

• Levels of management
  

• Delegation and escalation mechanisms
  

• Different types of reports
  

• Micro-planning
  

• • Estimation workload and duration
    

  • Identifying dependencies
    

  • Assigning resources
    

  • Scheduling the tasks (Gantt chart, PERT)
    

  • Identifying the critical path
    

  • Identifying the ‘leads’ and the ‘lags’
    

Delivery

• Assigning and monitoring work packages
  

• Monitoring and controlling the management stage
  

• Quality management (product descriptions, quality control)
  

• Change management
  

• Issue management
  

• Risk management
  

• Communication management
  

• HR management
  

• Procurement management
  

Closure

• Getting customer acceptance
  

• Handing over the project product
  

• Assessing project performance
  

• Closing the project