Project Team Leadership

Project success depends on choosing, motivating, and leading the project team. This course focuses on improving the project manager’s human resource expertise, from initial planning through project closure. Participants will apply all course principles to a work-related case study taken directly from their work environment. At course completion, students will be able to develop a human resource plan, acquire optimal team members, develop and motivate team members, and manage team members to accomplish project goals. NOTE: This course will earn you 14 PDUs.

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Course Overview

1 – PROJECT SCOPE AND TIME MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Project Scope Management Overview
Project Scope Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs
Project Time Management Overview
Project Time Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs
Case Study Selection
Requirements, Scope, and Negotiations

2 – PLAN SCOPE AND SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT

Plan Scope and Schedule Mgt. Overview
The Scope Management Plan
The Requirements Management Plan
The Schedule Management Plan

3 – COLLECT REQUIREMENTS

Collect Requirements Overview
Types of Requirements
Effective Product/Solution Requirements
Other Stakeholders and Requirements
Collect Requirements Techniques
Voice of the Customer
Requirements Traceability Matrix

4 – DEFINE SCOPE

Define Scope Overview
Project Scope Statement Sections
Create a Project Scope Statement

5 – CREATE WBS

Create WBS Overview
WBS by Deliverable
WBS by Phase
When to Subdivide a Work Package Further
Effective WBSs
General Process for Creating the WBS
Create a WBS

6 – DEFINE ACTIVITIES

Define Activities Overview
Practical Considerations for Defining Activities
Activities and Steps
Milestones
Create Activities and Milestones

7 – SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES

Develop Schedule Overview
Critical Path
Resource Optimization – Resource Leveling
Resource Optimization – Resource Smoothing
Resolve Overallocations
Critical Chain
Schedule Compression Techniques

8 – ESTIMATE ACTIVITY RESOURCES

Estimate Activity Resources Overview
Resource Breakdown Structure
Estimate Activity Resources
Assign Resources to Activities

9 – ESTIMATE ACTIVITY DURATIONS

Estimate Activity Durations Overview
Expert Judgment
Ratio Estimating
Analogous Estimating
Parametric Estimating
Forecasting
Three Point Estimating and PERT Estimating
Reserves
Estimate Activity Durations

10 – DEVELOP SCHEDULE

Develop Schedule Overview
Critical Path
Resource Optimization – Resource Leveling
Resource Optimization – Resource Smoothing
Resolve Overallocations
Critical Chain
Schedule Compression Techniques

11 – VALIDATE SCOPE

Validate Scope Overview
Verify Scope Best Practices
Create a Scope Validation Form

12 – CONTROL SCOPE AND SCHEDULE

Control Scope Overview
Control Schedule Overview
Control Scope Best Practices
Change Control Stakeholders
Determine Change Control Stakeholders
Change Control Process
Change Request Form

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