Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management you discovered in the Project Management Fundamentals course and covers in-depth the essential elements of managing a successful project. Focusing on the generally accepted practices of project management recognized by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®), this course offers you a standards-based approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Initiate a project
• Define project scope
• Develop schedule and cost performance baselines for a project
• Plan project quality, staffing, and communications
• Analyze project risks
• Define project procurement requirements
• Execute the project
• Control the project
• Close the project

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:

• Project Management Fundamentals
• Microsoft Project 2000 Part 1
• Microsoft Project 2000 Part 2
• Microsoft Word 2000 Part 1
• Microsoft Word 2000 Part 2

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

Lesson 1: Initiating a Project

• Select a Project
• Create a Project Charter

Lesson 2: Planning Your Work

• Develop an Initial Project Plan
• Create a Scope Statement
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Lesson 3: Developing Project Schedules, Cost Estimates, and Budgets

• Create an Activity List
• Create a Project Network Diagram
• Acquire Activity Duration Estimates
• Identify the Critical Path
• Develop a Project Schedule
• Determine Resource Requirements
• Estimate Project Costs
• Establish a Cost Baseline

Lesson 4: Planning Project Quality, Staffing, and Communications

• Create a Quality Management Plan
• Document Roles, Responsibilities, and Reporting Relationships
• Assign Project Staff
• Create a Communications Management Plan

Lesson 5: Analyzing Risks and Planning Risk Response

• Create a Risk Management Plan
• Identify Project Risks and Triggers
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Develop a Risk Response Plan

Lesson 6: Planning Project Procurement

• Prepare a Statement of Work
• Prepare a Procurement Document

Lesson 7: Working the Plan

• Execute the Project Plan
• Implement Quality Assurance
• Develop the Project Team
• Distribute Project Information
• Solicit Proposals, Quotes, or Bids
• Select a Seller
• Administer a Contract

Lesson 8: Controlling the Project

• Manage Changes to Performance Baselines
• Review Deliverables and Work Results
• Control Project Scope Changes
• Control the Project Schedule
• Control Project Costs
• Control Project Quality
• Report Project Performance
• Monitor and Control Project Risk

Lesson 9: Closing the Project

• Obtain Formal Acceptance
• Close Out a Contract