Planning projects
 

• Projects versus operations
• Project management definitions
• Managing project constraints
• Applications of project management
• Potential benefits of project management
• Definition of project life cycle
• Roles and responsibilities of project managers across the project lifecycle
• Project charter
• Project scope statement
• Project specifications
• Work breakdown structure 
• Project decomposition 
• Assessment and recovery charter 

Scheduling projects
 

• Linking activities and WBS sequencing 
• Predecessors sequencing techniques 
• Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
• Critical Path Method (CPM) 
• Forward and backward scheduling 
• Gantt chart
• Milestone chart
• Slack management 
• Schedule compression techniques
• Myths and realities of schedule compression
• Resource planning 
• Resource leveling

Selecting projects using capital budgeting techniques 

• Definition of capital budgeting 
• Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) 
• Payback Period (PP) 
• Net Present Value (NPV) 
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 
• Organizing and controlling projects
• Project organization and project control

Mastering earned value management 

• Schedule and budget variances 
• Schedule and cost performance indexes
• Earned value management benefits 
• Project management reporting 
• Auditing a project 
• The role of software in project management 

Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling
 

• Team-building principles and priorities
• Status and performance reporting
• Management by exception
• Keeping stakeholders informed and involved 
• Steering performance back to the baseline 
• Integrated change controls
• Managing project stakeholders 
• Identifying stakeholders
• Types of stakeholders 

Managing stakeholder engagement

• Project manager skills

• Project negotiation

Project Close Out
 

• Transitioning the product or service 
• Capturing lessons learned for the organization 
• Final report to stakeholders