Project Management by PMBOK standard
Course information
This course introduces participants to the best practices of project management, as found in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). The PMBOK® Guide is authored and maintained by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®, a non-profit organization that collects and disseminates project management principles and practices found to improve the performance of projects and the organizations that run them. Participants will apply all course principles to a case study taken directly from their work environment.
Project Management Institute (PMI) and PMBOK Guide are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Course Methodology
The format of the five-day workshop is a series of detailed lectures followed by discussion and hands-on exercises. Case studies and real-life examples are used to illustrate success and failure
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define several key terms and recognize the relationship between portfolio, program and project management
- Describe how organizational influences affect the methods used for managing projects
- Identify the integration of various processes and project management activities
- Breakdown the project’s scope to include all required project work
- Compute all activities’ durations required to complete the project
- Estimate activities’ costs and project’s budgets
- Outline the project’s quality policies and objectives
- Assemble the project team and manage its performance
- Create and properly communicate project information
- Develop a project risk management plan and examine project risks
- Plan the procurement steps to acquire products and services needed from outside the project team
- Analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project