Project Plan Development

Overview/Description
 As a project management professional, your impact on a corporation's competitive capability has made its mark in today's sizzling business environment. Your ability to enable new products and services to be taken rapidly and meticulously from design to market is placed at a premium. One of the most important skills you can develop is the ability to design surefire project plans for today's complex work environments. This course will enable you to do just that. Subjects such as process interactions, product scope, deliverables, project execution, planning outputs, and project plan execution will no longer simply be familiar terms, but will become usable skills. You will be prepared to manage complex projects and thus help your organization succeed in the 21st century.

Target Audience
 Experienced project managers who are seeking to further their project management skills to more advanced levels, and especially project managers who are preparing for PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or need to fulfill continuing education requirements for maintaining PMP status.

Expected Duration
2.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Project Management Processes

  • recognize the importance of project management processes.
  • identify the five process groups of project plan development.
  • identify the core project planning processes.
  • match core processes to executing, controlling, and closing processes.

    • Inputs from Project Plan Development

  • recognize the benefits of using project management inputs.
  • identify planning outputs which are inputs to developing the project plan.
  • select relevant historical information and organizational policies for project plan development.
  • identify examples of organizational constraints and assumptions.

    • Tools and Techniques

  • recognize the critical importance of implementing project management tools and techniques.
  • identify the key characteristics of project planning methodology.
  • match stakeholders with the contributions they make to the management of projects.
  • identify the best definition of project management information systems.

    • Outputs from Project Plan Development

  • recognize the value of project plan development outputs.
  • specify the components of a project plan.
  • identify the supporting details for the project plan.
  • identify the key items needed in project plans.

    • Course Number: PROJ0221