Project Plan Development (PMBOK 2000)

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. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) 2000 Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

Target Audience
 This series is specifically targeted for project managers, project team members, functional managers with employees assigned to project teams, project stakeholders, any team manager or member interested in project management, executives committed to their organization's growth, managers required to take on new challenges, and top managers with vision.

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Inputs to Project Plan Development

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the inputs to project plan development.
  • match examples of the other planning outputs to their correct descriptions.
  • choose the other planning outputs that should be included as inputs in a simulated project plan.
  • recognize sources of historical information for a project given examples.
  • choose the relevant historical information that should be included in a simulated company's project plan.
  • label examples of policies that must be considered during project plan development as formal or informal.
  • match project constraints and assumptions to their examples.

    • Tools and Techniques for Project Plan Development

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the tools and techniques for project plan development.
  • differentiate between examples of hard and soft tools.
  • match stakeholders to examples of the contributions they make to the development of a project plan.
  • identify examples of the uses of PMIS.
  • recognize the variables used in EVM.
  • use EVM to measure the variances for a simulated communications project.

    • Outputs from Project Plan Development

  • recognize the importance of understanding the outputs from project plan development.
  • identify the key components of a project plan.
  • identify the key components that are missing from a project plan.
  • recognize the five types of supporting detail.
  • identify examples of supporting detail for a project plan.

    • Course Number: PROJ0421