Micro-Credential in Project Management

Week 1

(6 Hrs.)

Introduction

·         Understanding Project Management.

·         Defining Project Success.

·         The Project Manager-Line Manager

·         Interface.

·         Defining the Project Manager’s Role.

·         Defining the Functional Manager’s Role.

·         Defining the Functional Employee’s Role.

·         Defining the Executive’s Role.

·         Working with Executives.

·         The Project Manager as the Planning

·         Agent.

·         Project Champions.

·         The Downside of Project Management.

·         Project-Driven versus Non-Project Driven

·         Organizations.

·         Marketing in the Project-Driven

·         Organization.

·         Classification of Projects.

·         Location of the Project Manager.

·         Differing Views of Project Management and approach

Project Management Growth: Concepts and Definitions.

·         General Systems Management.

·         Project Management: 1945-1960.

·         Project Management: 1960-1985.

·         Project Management: 1985-2009.

·         Resistance to Change.

·         Systems, Programs, and Projects: A Definition.

·         Product versus Project Management: A Definition.

·         Maturity and Excellence: A Definition.

·         Informal Project Management: A Definition.

·         The Many Faces of Success.

·         The Many Faces of Failure.

·         The Stage-Gate Process.

·         Project Life Cycles.

·         Gate Review Meetings (Project Closure).

·         Project Management

Methodologies: A Definition.

·         Organizational Change

Management and

·         Corporate Cultures.

·         Project Management Intellectual

Discussion

Week 2

(6 Hrs.)

Organizational Structures.

·         Organizational Workflow.

·         Traditional (Classical) Organization.

·         Developing Work Integration Positions.

·         Line-Staff Organization (Project Coordinator).

·         Pure Product (Projectile) Organization.

·         Matrix Organizational Form.

·         Modification of Matrix Structures.

·         The Strong, Weak, Balanced Matrix.

·         Centre for Project Management Expertise.

·         Matrix Layering.

·         Selecting the Organizational Form.

·         Structuring the Small Company. •

·         Strategic Business Unit (SBU) Project Management

Organizing And Staffing

The project Office and Team.

·         The Staffing Environment.

·         Selecting the Project Manager: An Executive Decision.

·         Skill Requirements for Project and

·         Program Managers.

·         Special Cases in Project Manager

·         Selection.

·         Selecting the Wrong Project Manager.

·         Next Generation Project Managers.

·         Duties and Job Descriptions.

Discussion

Week 3

(6 Hrs.)

Organizing And Staffing The project Office and Team

·         The Organizational Staffing Process.

·         The Project Office.

·         The Functional Team.

·         The Project Organizational Chart.

·         Special Problems.

·         Selecting the Project Management

·         Implementation Team

Management Functions.

·         Controlling.

·         Directing.

·         Project Authority.

·         Interpersonal Influences.

·         Barriers to Project Team

Development.

·         Suggestions for Handling the Newly

·         Formed Team.

·         Team Building as an Ongoing

Process.

·         Dysfunctions of a Team.

·         Leadership in a Project

Environment.

·         Life-Cycle Leadership.

·         Organizational Impact.

·         Employee-Manager Problems.

·         Management Pitfalls.

·         Communications.

·         Project Review Meetings.

·         Project Management Bottlenecks.

·         Communication Traps.

·         Proverbs and Laws.

·         Human Behaviour Education.

·         Management Policies and

Procedures.

Management Of Your Time And

Stress.

·         Understanding Time Management.

·         Time Robbers.

·         Time Management Forms.

·         Effective Time Management.

·         Stress and Burnout

Discussion

Week 4

(6 Hrs.)

Conflicts.

·         The Conflict Environment.

·         Conflict Resolution and Modes.

·         Understanding Superior, Subordinate, and Functional Conflicts. The Management of Conflicts.

Special Topics

·         Performance Measurement.

·         Financial Compensation and Rewards.

·         Critical issues with rewarding project teams.

·         Effective Project Management in the Small

·         Business Organization.

·         Mega Projects.

·         Morality, Ethics, and the Corporate

·         Culture.

·         Professional Responsibilities.

·         Internal Partnerships.

·         External Partnerships.

·         Training and Education.

·         Integrated Product/Project Teams.

·         Virtual Project Teams.

·         Breakthrough Projects

Discussion

Week 5

(6 Hrs.)

Planning.

·         Validating the Assumptions.

·         General Planning.

·         Life-Cycle Phases.

·         Proposal Preparation.

·         Kick-off Meetings.

·         Understanding Participants’ Roles.

·         Project Planning.

·         The Statement of Work.

·         Project Specifications.

·         Milestone Schedules.

·         Work Breakdown Structure.

·         WBS Decomposition

Planning.

·         The Planning Cycle.

·         Work Planning Authorization.

·         Why Do Plans Fail?

·         Stopping Projects.

·         Handling Project Phaseouts and Transfers.

·         Detailed Schedules and Charts.

·         Master Production Scheduling.

·         Project Plan.

·         Total Project Planning.

·         The Project Charter.

·         Management Control.

·         The Project Manager-Line Manager

·         Interface.

·         Fast-Tracking.

·         Configuration Management.

·         Enter price project Management

·         Methodologies.

·         Project

Discussion

Week 6

(6 Hrs.)

Network Scheduling Techniques.

·         Network Fundamentals.

·         Graphical Evaluation and

·         Review

·         Technique (GERT).

·         Dependencies.

·         Slack Time.

·         Network Re-planning.

·         Estimating Activity Time

·         Estimating Total Project Time.

·         Total PERT/CPM Planning.

·         Crash Times.

·         PERT/CPM Problem Areas.

·         Alternative PERT/CPM Models.

·         Precedence Networks.

·         Lag.

·         Scheduling Problems.

·         The Myths of Schedule Compression.

·         Understanding Project Management

Software.

·         Software Features Offered.

·         Software Classification.

·         Implementation Problems.

·         Critical Chain

Discussion

Presentation

Week 7

(6 Hrs.)

Project Graphics.

·         Customer Reporting.

·         Bar (Gantt) Chart.

·         Other Conventional Presentation

·         Techniques.

·         Logic Diagrams/Networks

Pricing and estimating.

Global Pricing Strategies.

·         Types of Estimates.

·         Pricing Process.

·         Organizational Input Requirements.

·         Labour Distributions.

·         Overhead Rates.

·         Materials/Support Costs.

·         Pricing Out the Work.

·         Smoothing Out Department Man Hours.

·         The Pricing Review Procedure.

·         Systems Pricing.

·         Developing the Supporting/Backup Costs.

·         The Low-Bidder Dilemma.

·         Special Problems.

·         Estimating Pitfalls.

·         Estimating High-Risk Projects.

·         Project Risks.

·         The Disaster of Applying the 10 Percent

·         Solution to Project Estimates.

·         Life-Cycle Costing (LCC).

·         Logistics Support.

·         Economic Project Selection Criteria:

·         Capital Budgeting.

·         Payback Period.

·         The Time Value of Money

·         Net Present Value (NPV).

·         Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

·         Comparing IRR, NPV, and Payback.

·         Risk Analysis.

·         Capital Rationing.

·         Project Financing

Cost Control.

·         Understanding Control.

·         The Operating Cycle.

·         Cost Account Codes.

·         Budgets.

·         The Earned Value Measurement System

·         (EVMS).

Submission of Assessment

Week 8

Final Examination

Conclusion Session

Awarding of Certificates

Presentation by VC or Representative of VC