Advanced Blackbird Project Management Professional

Introduction

Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is essential to compete in today's fast-paced, highly technical, and dispersed workplace. The skills and knowledge you gain in this course will help you avoid making costly mistakes and increase your competitive edge.

In this course, you will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute (PMI)® to successfully manage projects.

Course Objectives

• Define project management fundamentals.
• Define project management within the organization.
• Define the project management methodology.
• Initiate a project.
• Develop a project management plan and plan components.
• Plan a project schedule.
• Plan project costs.
• Plan for quality, resources, and procurement.
• Plan for risk.
• Plan stakeholder engagement and communications.
• Execute a project.
• Work with stakeholders.
• Monitor project work, scope, risks, stakeholder engagement, and communications.
• Control project changes, scope, schedule, costs, quality, resources, and procurement.
• Close a project.

Course Outlines

Day 1: Defining Project Management Basics 

• Identify the Concepts of Project Management.
• Identify the Relationship Between Project Management and the Business.
• Identify Project Stakeholders and Governance.
• Define Interpersonal and Team Skills.
   

Day 2: Defining Project Management Within The Organization 

• Identify Organizational Influences.
• Identify the Project Team.
• Define the Project Life Cycle.
• Define Agile Methodology.

Day 3: Defining The PMI® PROJECT Management Methodology  

• Define the Project Management Processes.
• Define the Knowledge Areas.
• Identify Project Information.

Day 4: Initiating A Project

• Initiating Process Group Map.
• Develop a Project Charter.
• Identify Project Stakeholders.

Day 5: Planning A Project 

• Planning Process Group Map.
• Develop a Project Management Plan.
• Plan Scope Management.
• Collect Project Requirements.
• Define Project Scope.
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure.

Day 6: Overview Of Project Management

• Project life cycle.
• Project management processes.
• Project roles and organization structure.
• Project management process and knowledge areas.
• Introduction to risk management.

Day 7: Risk Management System

• Decision Trees.
• Risk Prioritization.
• Benefits of Project Risk Analysis and Management.
• Sources of risk.
• Risk as an opportunity.

Day 8: Value Management & Risk

• Behavioral and cultural factors.
• Environment & stakeholders.
• Compiling the Risk Management Plan.
• Risk identification and risk assessment.
• Quantitative Methods for risk assessment.

Day 9: Planned Responses To Risk

• Risk registers & their operation.
• Risk ownership.
• Quality & quality management.
• Scheduling, planning & work definition.

Day 10: Plan And Perform Mitigation Actions

• Tracking risks.
• Risk Documentation.
• Compliance verification prior to the deadline.
• Client communications and feedback analysis.