Project Management
Basic

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 1

Prerequisites: Prerequisite or equivalent experience

Unit 1 : Fundamentals of project management

Topic A: 0 Project

A-1: Characteristics of a project

A-2: Differentiating between product and project management

Topic B: 0 Project management process

B-1: Steps in a project management process

B-2: Avoiding pitfalls

Unit 2 : Characteristics

Topic A: 0 Project environment

A-1: Cultural and external environment

A-2: Identifying stakeholders’ influence on a project

A-3: Identifying socioeconomic influences

Topic B: 0 Organizational structure

B-1: Determining an organizational structure

B-2: Using the purely project organizational structure

B-3: Identifying types of organizational structures

Topic C: 0 Project manager

C-1: Relationship between the project manager and the functional manager

C-2: Skills of a project manager

C-3: Project manager’s responsibilities

C-4: Project manager’s challenges

Topic D: 0 Project team

D-1: Staffing of project team members

D-2: Using the skills inventory

D-3: Identifying the qualities of a team member

D-4: Handling difficulties and logistics

D-5: Identifying the need for team building

D-6: Reporting to project manager

D-7: Developing and staffing a project office

Unit 3 : Scope

Topic A: 0 Scope management

A-1: Identifying components of scope management

A-2: Impact of historical information on project initiation

A-3: Identifying project deliverables

A-4: Creating a project charter

A-5: Identifying project constraints

Topic B: 0 Scope planning

B-1: Identifying actions

B-2: Creating a scope statement

B-3: Managing scope creep

B-4: Need of a scope management plan

Topic C: 0 Scope definition and verification

C-1: Understanding the process

C-2: Decomposing a project

Topic D: 0 Work breakdown structure

D-1: Identifying breakdown structures

D-2: Identifying the deliverables of a WBS

D-3: Sizing work packages

D-4: Creating a good WBS

Topic E: 0 Scope change control

E-1: Understanding scope change control

E-2: Controlling changes to scope

E-3: Maintaining a database of lessons

Unit 4 : Time management

Topic A: 0 Time management variable

A-1: Understanding activity definition and sequencing

A-2: Differentiating between tasks, activities, and events

A-3: Identifying types of activities

A-4: Identifying types of dependencies

Topic B: 0 Understanding diagrams

B-1: Using network diagrams

B-2: Using the precedence diagramming method

B-3: Using the arrow diagramming method

B-4: Using loops and conditional branches

Topic C: 0 Activity duration

C-1: Assessing activity duration

C-2: Differentiating between activity duration, work effort, and down time

Topic D: 0 Estimating techniques

D-1: Using estimating techniques

D-2: Using schedule development techniques

D-3: Identifying constraints during schedule development

D-4: Calculating float

Topic E: 0 Mathematical analysis techniques

E-1: Understanding mathematical analysis techniques

E-2: Differentiating between PERT, CPM, and GERT

E-3: Using duration compression methods

E-4: Presenting a project schedule

Unit 5 : Schedule control

Topic A: 0 Purpose

A-1: Loading and leveling resources

Topic B: 0 Schedule adherence

B-1: Using the critical path

B-2: Calculating schedule variance

Unit 6 : Estimating costs

Topic A: 0 Fundamentals of estimating costs

A-1: Understanding resource identification

A-2: Identifying necessary resources

Topic B: 0 Assign resources

B-1: Assigning resources to activities

B-2: Resource planning for a project

Unit 7 : Cost approximating

Topic A: 0 Fundamentals of cost approximating

A-1: Approximating costs

A-2: Analyzing historical information

Topic B: 0 Cost-estimating techniques

B-1: Using estimating techniques when developing cost approximations

B-2: Cost-estimating problems

Unit 8 : Cost budgeting

Topic A: 0 Project budgeting

A-1: Refining a budget

A-2: Using an S-curve

A-3: Discussing cost management plan

A-4: Using the methods of capital budgeting

A-5: Using depreciation methods

Topic B: 0 Cost control

B-1: Controlling project costs

Topic C: 0 Variance analysis

C-1: Calculating variances

C-2: Calculating performance efficiency

Topic D: 0 Completion calculations

D-1: Understanding a project’s completion calculations

D-2: Calculating variance at completion