Training agenda
  1. Introduction to project management acc. to PMBOK® Guide
    • PMI and PMBOK® Guide
    • What is a project and what makes it special?
    • Why project management?
    • Variables (constraints) of the project – time, cost, quality, risk, resources
    • Project success from different perspectives
    • Business value and benefits of the project
  2. Value delivery system
    • Project as element of value delivery system
    • Program and portfolio
    • Project management office (PMO)-  main functions and benefits
    • Project environment – internal and external
  3. Principles of project management acc. to PMBOK® Guide
  4. Stakeholders
    • Who are project stakeholders?
    • Stakeholder engagement management
    • Stakeholder identification and analysis
    • Power interest grid
    • Stakeholder engagement good practices
    • Model ADKAR®
    • 8 steps of change management acc. to Kotter
  5. Team
    • Project team and project management team
    • Project manager
    • Project manager competencies
    • Effective project sponsor
    • Collaborating between project manager and sponsor – good practices
    • Basic team management tools – RACI matrix, team charter
    • Creation and development of project team
    • Motivation and collaboration in the team – Maslow pyramid, Herzberg theory, XYZ model, internal motivation arc. to Pink
    • Team conflicts and solutions to them
  6. Tailoring the project and approach method selection
    • Tailoring – what is, why to do it and how?
    • Tailoring process
    • Delivery approaches – predictive, hybrid and adaptive – when to use which?  
    • How to select and tailor right approach to project management?
    • Project initiation
    • Project charter
    • Initiation artifacts – vision declaration, business model canvas, roadmap
    • Effective kick-off meeting
    • Initialization vs planning – goals and differences
  7. Project planning
    • Roller wave planning as key planning technique in projects
    • Project management plan and its role
    • Acquiring, definition and prioritisation of requirements (MoSCoW technique)
    • Scope definition and creation of work breakdown structure (WBS) – good practices
    • Task duration estimation methods
    • Creation of network diagrams
    • Critical path method
    • Schedule creation – good practices
    • Resources balancing
    • Schedule optimalization (crashing, fast-tracking)
    • Estimation errors, buffer allocation reasons
    • Project cost estimation
    • Base plan and project budget – good practices
    • Budget reserves – how to estimate and how to manage
    • Communication planning
    • Communication model – duties of sender and receiver, communication noise
    • Communication errors
  8. Project works
    • Work delegation  – good practices of effective delegation?
    • Project meeting – good practices
    • Change and issue management – integrated change control
    • Scope creep – symptoms, reasons, avoidance methods
    • Project knowledge management
  9. Delivery
    • Quality acc. To PMI
    • Quality planning
    • Quality cost
    • Cause and effect diagram
  10. Measures
    • What to monitor and control?
    • Project progress reports – good practice
    • Earned Value method –  
    • Usage of EVM method to monitor progress of the project
  11. uncertainty
    • Risk and risk management – definition and concept
    • Determination of risk management approach in project
    • Risk categories, creation of risk breakdown structure
    • Risk identification – good practices
    • Risk qualitative analysis – estimation of probability and impact
    • Risk quantitative analysis. EV method
    • Risk response planning and introducing actions. Strategy categories for opportunities and threats
    • Risk monitoring, risk register updating
    • Risk management – common mistakes
  12. Project closing
    • Final product acceptation
    • Project summary – good practices of project review
    • Project final report
    • Lessons learned session and retrospective.