Best Practices in Capital Project Management 

The Course

Delays, cost overruns, or quality problems can wreck your project. Keep it on course with this 3-day overview of project management. Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK®, this workshop helps you master the entire project management process.

You Will Learn How To:

• Manage projects with confidence
• Avoid dangerous shortcuts and omissions
• Monitor risks and correct trouble spots
• Put together a solid team and effective documentation

The benefit

• Learn all aspects of project management from the perspective of the PMBOK Guide
• Acquire the necessary prerequisite knowledge to enter a PMP Exam Prep training program
• Learn the techniques of documenting project risks, assumptions, and constraints
• Become skilled at identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
• Learn how to develop a WBS and create a project charter
• Get skills to determine the critical path of a project
• Learn how to staff your project for optimum results

Programme Content

1. EXAMINING THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

• Exploring characteristics of projects
• Reviewing project management terminology
• Considering environmental influences

1. REVIEWING THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

• Describing the project management process groups
• The project management knowledge areas
• Project management competency standards

1. INITIATING THE PROJECT

• Using project selection methods
• Defining project scope
• Documenting project risks, assumptions, and constraints
• Identifying and performing stakeholder analysis
• Evaluating the project charter

1. PLANNING THE PROJECT

• Defining and recording requirements, constraints, and assumptions
• Identifying project team members and defining roles and responsibilities
• Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Developing the change management plan
• Identifying risks and defining risk strategies
• Obtaining plan approval
• Conducting the kickoff meeting

1. EXECUTING THE PROJECT PLAN

• Executing the tasks defined in the project plan
• Ensuring a common understanding and setting expectations
• Implementing a quality management plan
• Executing approved changes, actions, and workarounds
• Improving team performance

1. MONITORING AND CONTROLLING THE PROJECT

• Measuring project performance
• Verifying and managing changes to the project
• Ensuring that project deliverables conform to quality standards
• Monitoring all project risks

1. CLOSING THE PROJECT

• Obtaining final acceptance for the project
• Getting financial, legal, and administrative closure
• Releasing project resources
• Creating and distributing a final project report
• Archiving and retaining project records
• Measuring customer satisfaction