Project Management Foundations

01 - Introduction
- Deliver successful projects
- What you should know

02 - Get to Know Project Management
- What is a project
- What is project management
- What it takes to be a project manager
- The project management life cycle
- Traditional vs. agile project management
- How organizational structure affects projects
- How organizational culture affects projects
- Project management software options
- Challenge Organization

03 - First Things First
- Initiate a project
- Identify project stakeholders
- Analyze project stakeholders
- Identify the project goal
- Define project objectives
- Choose a strategy
- Gather requirements
- Identify project deliverables and success criteria
- Identify project assumptions and risks
- Prepare a project scope statement
- Create a project charter
- Challenge Project charter

04 - Develop a Project Plan
- Project planning overview
- What is a work breakdown structure
- Build a work breakdown structure
- How to create work packages
- Estimate time and cost
- How to choose the best estimate
- Create a resource management plan
- Build a project schedule
- Develop a project budget
- Identify risks
- Create a risk management plan
- Set up a communication plan
- Develop a quality plan
- How to set up a change management plan
- How to plan procurement
- Processes for procuring resources
- How to obtain approval to proceed
- Challenge Change

05 - Build a Project Schedule
- Put tasks in sequence
- How to assign resources to tasks
- Learn to use milestones
- Make a realistic schedule
- Understand the critical path
- Understand the critical chain method
- How to shorten a schedule
- Document the baseline
- Challenge Network diagram

06 - An Overview of Agile Project Management
- What is agile project management
- The agile project management life cycle
- Plan an iteration
- Manage the explore stage
- Handle the adapt and close stages
- Challenge Agile

07 - While You Run the Project
- How to run a project
- Techniques for communicating effectively
- Run effective meetings
- Challenge Agenda

08 - Work with Teams
- Manage team resources
- Understand team dynamics
- How to manage virtual teams
- How to manage technical teams
- Challenge Team

09 - Monitor and Control Progress and Performance
- How to gather data
- How to manage project change
- Learn how to manage project scope
- Monitor and control risks
- Understand earned value analysis
- Evaluate progress
- Learn how to solve problems
- How to get a project back on track
- Challenge Change request

10 - Close a Project
- Close a project
- How to obtain customer acceptance
- Document lessons learned
- How to prepare a close-out report
- Learn how to close and transition projects
- Challenge Acceptance

11 - Conclusion
- Next steps

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