Project Planning

Overview/Description
To discuss the project planning in the project management process

Target Audience
Students with an interest in the principles of project management; trainee project managers; consultants who routinely engage in project management; experienced project managers who wish to refresh their thinking on the principles of project management; program managers and senior mangers who employ or manage project managers; students seeking CompTIA IT Project+ certification

Prerequisites
A good understanding of the nature of projects; an interest in the principles of effective project management

Expected Duration
345 Minutes

Objectives:

Project Planning

  • gather and document project information as part of the communications planning process.
  • develop a communications map that represents the flow of project information between internal and external stakeholders.
  • develop an effective project communications plan.
  • develop a project-communications and performance-reporting strategy for a virtual team.
  • construct and manage a project schedule.
  • discuss cost estimating and budgeting in project management.
  • demonstrate how a resource plan and cost estimates should be developed.
  • provide accurate estimates of the work required to complete a project.
  • assess the impact of risk on the project management process.
  • discuss how to assign and manage roles within a project team.
  • outline the procedures involved in evaluating an existing staff pool and recruiting project team members.
  • outline how to acquire project teams within and outside an organization.
  • outline the considerations involved in developing and assembling an appropriate and productive project team.
  • apply staff-evaluation and project-selection techniques in a project environment.
  • outline the importance of a quality-management philosophy to the overall quality of a project.
  • develop policies and procedures that ensure team members are accomplishing their tasks correctly to produce a quality end-result.
  • plan and develop a project quality-control system.
  • evaluate the internal and external cost-benefit trade-off of a project's quality program.
  • demonstrate how to use acceptance sampling and other statistical techniques to monitor project quality.
  • describe how to establish and implement an effective quality-control system.


    • Course Number: 68864_eng