Combining PMBOK® Guide Project Management Best Practices with Microsoft Project

Course Objectives

Participants will apply all principles and practices to a real-world project taken directly from their industry. Participants also gain hands-on experience with over 35 electronic, project management templates.

Course Prerequisites

his course is intended for:

• Project managers, project team leads, and project team members (with or without a currently-active PMI certification) who want to gain a deeper understanding of and hands-on experience with current project management best practices, as documented in the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition.
• Professionals who hold current PMP®, PgMP®, or other PMI credentials, who wish to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMI certification.
• This course is not intended as direct preparation for any PMI certification exam.

Prerequisites

To ensure that you benefit fully from this course, you should have experience managing, leading, or contributing to projects. A PMI project-management credential such as PMP® or CAPM® is recommended but not required.

Course Agenda

Module 1: Project Management Introduction

· Project Management Introduction Overview

· Defining Projects (1.2.1)

· The Importance of Project Management (1.2.2)

· Project, Program, Portfolio and Operations Management (1.2.3)

· Key Components (1.2.4)

· Project Management Process Groups

· Project Management Knowledge Areas

· Project Data, Information, and Reports

· Tailoring

· Project Management Business Documents (1.2.6)

· Success Measurements

Module 2: The Environment in Which Projects Operate

· The Environment in Which Projects Operate Overview

· Enterprise Environmental Factors (2.2)

· Organizational Process Assets (2.3)

· Organizational Systems (2.4)

· Governance Frameworks (2.4.2)

· Management Elements (2.4.3)

· Organizational Structure Types (2.4.4)

· Project Management Office

Module 3: The Role of the Project Manager

· The Role of the Project Manager Overview (3.1)

· The Project Manager’s Sphere of Influence (3.3)

· Project Management Competencies (3.4)

· Leadership: Politics, Power, and Getting Things Done (3.4)

· Levels of Skills Capability (3.4)

· Competency Model

· Comparison of Leadership and Management (3.4.5)

· Leadership Styles (3.4.5)

· Personality (3.4.5)

· Performing Integration (3.5)

· Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide

Module 4: Initiating Process Group

· Initiating Process Group Overview (3.3)

· Develop Project Charter (4.1)

· Identify Stakeholders (10.1)

Module 5: Planning Processes

· Planning Process Group Overview

· Section A: Management Plans

· Develop Project Management Plan (4.2)

· Subsidiary Management Plans

· Plan Scope Management (5.1)

· Plan Schedule Management (6.1)

· Plan Cost Management (7.1)

· Plan Quality Management (8.1)

· Plan Resource Management (9.1)

· Plan Communications Management (10.1)

· Plan Risk Management (11.1)

· Plan Procurement Management (12.1)

· Plan Stakeholder Engagement (13.2)

· Change Management Plan and Configuration Management Plan (4.1)

· Section B: Scope, Schedule, and Cost Processes

· Collect Requirements (5.2)

· MSP: Explore the Microsoft Project 2010 Environment

· MSP: Display an Existing Project Plan in Different Views

· MSP: Enter a Project Start Date

· MSP: Create a Project Calendar

· Define Scope (5.3)

· Create WBS (5.4)

· Define Activities (6.2)

· MSP: Add Tasks to a Project Plan

· MSP: Outline Tasks

· Sequence Activities (6.3)

· MSP: Link Dependent Tasks

· MSP: Set Task Constraints and Deadlines

· Estimate Activity Resources (9.2)

· MSP: Add Resources to a Project Plan

· MSP: Assign Resources to Tasks

· Estimate Activity Durations (6.4)

· MSP: Enter the Task Duration Estimates

· Develop Schedule (6.5)

· Overview: Cost Planning Processes

· Estimate Costs (7.2)

· MSP: Enter Costs for Resources

· Determine Budget (7.3)

· MSP: Update the plan

· Section C: Risk Processes

· Identify Risks (11.2)

· Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis (11.3)

· Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis (11.4)

· Plan Risk Responses (11.5)

· MSP: Revise the MSP Plan

· MSP: Set a Baseline

· MSP: Resolve Resource Conflicts

· MSP: Shorten a Project Using the Critical Path

· MSP: View the Project Summary Report

Module 6: Executing Processes

· Executing Processes Overview

· Direct and Manage Project Work (4.3)

· MSP: Enter Task Progress

· MSP: Enter Overtime Work

· MSP: Create a Custom Table

· MSP: Create a Custom Field

· Manage Project Knowledge (4.4)

· MSP: Create a Custom View

· MSP: Make Custom Views Available to Other Project Plans

· MSP: Export Project Plan Cost Data to an Excel Workbook

· MSP: Copy a Picture of the Project Plan Information

· MSP: Link Documents to a Project Plan

· MSP: Create a Visual Report

· Manage Quality (8.2)

· Acquire Resources (9.3)

· Develop Team (9.4)

· Manage Team (9.5)

· Manage Communications (10.2)

· Implement Risk Responses (11.6)

· Conduct Procurements (12.2)

· Manage Stakeholder Engagement (13.3)

Module 7: Monitoring and Controlling Processes

• Monitoring and Controlling Process Group Overview
• Monitor and Control Project Work (4.5)
• Perform Integrated Change Control (4.6)
• Validate Scope (5.5)
• Control Change (5.6)
• Control Schedule (6.6)
• MSP: Reschedule a Task
• MSP: Filter Tasks
• Control Costs (7.4)
• MSP: Update Cost Rate Tables
• MSP: Group Costs
• Control Quality (8.3)
• Control Resources (9.6)
• Monitor Communications (10.3)
• Monitor Risks (11.7)
• Control Procurements (12.3)
• Monitor Stakeholder Engagement (13.4)

Module 8: Closing Processes

• Closing Process Group Overview
• Close Project or Phase (4.7)
• MSP: Create a Project Plan Template
• MSP: Share Resources

       · MSP: Create a Master Project

Course Materials

Each student will receive a Student Guide with course notes, code samples, software tutorials, diagrams and related reference materials and links (as applicable). Our courses also include step by step hands-on lab instructions and and solutions, clearly illustrated for users to complete hands-on work in class, and to revisit to review or refresh skills at any time. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.