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Project Management Training

Career Ascend has decided to
offer the Project Management
course FREE to all professionals to
help them arm themselves better
during these tough economic
times. This course normally sells
for over $199.

This Project Management Course
covers all the topics shown on the
right and is comprehensive enough
to arm you for any certification
course you might need to take.

This FREE Project Management
Course can downloaded from the
Product page of this website.

Once downloaded the course
material will be in Microsoft
Powerpoint 2003-07 Show format.
If you do not have that
application on your computer , you
can download the application free
from www.microsoft.com.

The folder downloaded will need to
be uncompressed using any
standard uncompression software
like www.winzip.com

In the downloaded folder the
following files will be present:

1. Project Management Training
Agenda.pps
2. Project Management.pps
3. Project Planning.pps
4. Project Initiating.pps
5. Executing the Project.pps.

The power points have been
designed to provide users a simple
interface.

Course Material

Introduction to Project Management

Topics Covered:
o Introduction to Project Management and
the PMBOK
o Why Project Management is important?
o Lifecycles of a Project
o Thirteen Types of Stakeholders that can
influence your project's results
o The role of the Project Manager / Project
Sponsor / Project Team Member
o Responsibilities of the Project Manager

Initiating the Project

Topics Covered:
o Building the business case
o Crafting the Statement of Work
o Creating the scope statement
o Defining / Developing the Project
Charter
o Creating SMART Objectives
o Determining change control and issues
management
o Establishing project assumptions
o Assessing project costs and ROI
o Predictive Cost-Benefit Analysis
o Linking the project to the Strategic Plan

Planning the Project

Topics Covered:
o Introduction to the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
o Identifying project milestones and
deliverables
o Project task identification and
decomposition
o Generating team commitment and buy-in
o Milestones, Gates and Reviews
o Working with subject matter experts to
verify WBS accuracy
o Estimating tools for calculating task
duration and effort
o PERT estimation and task analysis
o Introduction to the Network Diagram
o Calculating the Critical Path
o Determining total and free project float
o Introduction to Theory of Constraints
and Critical Chain Theory
o Determining Resource Loads
o Coordinating resources among multiple
projects
o Leveling resources among multiple
projects
o Assigning responsibility
o Multi-dimensional risk analysis and
contingency planning
o Network Diagram versus the Gantt Chart
o Building the Gantt Chart
o Workflow versus schedule

Project Execution and Controlling the
Project

Topics Covered:
o Tracking the project's progress
o Eight triggers to a troubled project
o Variance analysis
o Expediting a project
o Managing the issues log and change
requests
o Different types of tracking data
o Interpreting the data
o Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
o Calculating Critical Ratios
o Using EVA as more than just a tracking
tool
o Responding to the EIGHT triggers of a
troubled project
o Managing team member performance
o Contractor/ Vendor Administration
o Tips and Techniques for tracking projects

Closing the Project

Topics Covered:
o Lessons learned and the post-project
review
o Preparing the project close schedule
o Creating final project reports
o Client sign-off