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    Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, and Control (online virtual classroom)

    Want to learn more about project management, but prefer to absorb the information in smaller chunks rather than three straight days of instruction? Try our online virtual classroom! Tailored for participants like you who appreciate peer and instructor interaction, this course and its participants “meet” online on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for eight consecutive weeks.

    A project manager has a lot to worry about—project cost management, creating a project charter, handling project management information technology, and developing project scope. He or she  needs to master communication management, as well as control project deadlines and due dates through forecasting and project schedule management.

    This project management course teaches techniques that will help you plan, implement, and complete projects with desired results…on time and within budget. Learn how to use project management systems and tools to create clear project missions and goals. Learn to accurately estimate project time and costs, employ project quality management, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems for project control.

    You will learn how to:

    • Understand and apply the value of fundamental project management concepts to your work and organization
    • Understand and apply appropriate project management process groups, concepts, and techniques at each stage of the project lifecycle
    • Recognize the importance of a standardized and methodical approach to project management and apply it within your organization
    • Assess how various project methodologies and tools apply to various types of projects
    • Apply methods for project alignment with project, tactical, and strategic objectives

    PMBOK™ knowledge areas

    • Time, cost, scope management
    • Quality management
    • Risk management
    • Project integration
    • Communication management
    • Human resource management

    Session 1: Course Introduction, Definition and Attributes of Projects, Project Lifecycle

    •       Project definition and characteristics

    •       Examples of projects

    •       Project constraints

    •       Risks

    •       Project lifecycles

    •       Project management processes

    •       Benefits of structured project management

    Session 2: Needs and Requirements Gathering, Project Definition, Project Selection

    •       Needs assessment

    •       Requirements gathering

    •       Project definition and charter development

    •       Project selection

    Session 3: Project Risk Management

    •       Planning risk management

    •       Identifying risks

    •       Qualitative risk analysis

    •       Quantitative risk analysis

    •       Planning risk responses

    •       Monitoring and controlling risks

    Session 4: Work Breakdown Structures, Estimating Effort

    •       Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) – overview

    •       Purpose of the WBS

    •       Developing a WBS

    •       Using the WBS to estimate effort and costs

    •       Best practices for estimating effort

    Session 5: Project Scheduling, Controlling and Managing Project Schedules

    •       Converting effort estimates into activity duration

    •       Developing schedules

    •       Network diagramming techniques

    •       PERT and CPM

    •       Gantt charts

    •       Calculating schedules

    •       Using schedules to monitor and control projects

    Session 6: Resources and Resource Planning

    •       What is a resource?

    •       Identifying project resources

    •       What every project manager should know about their resources

    •       Resource pools

    •       Planning with resources

    •       Calculating schedules with resources

    •       Estimating costs with resources

    Session 7: Cost Planning, Tracking and Control, Change Management

    •       Developing project estimates and budgets

    •       Managing/controlling project budgets

    •       Earned value management

    •       Change management

    •       Scope management

    •       Change control plans

    Session 8: Professional Responsibility, Skills, Project Communication and Documentation

    •       Professional responsibility and ethics

    •       Developing and maintaining skills

    •       Project communications

    •       Project documentation

     

    Shawn Belling

    Shawn D. Belling, PMP®, has over 20 years of business leadership and project management experience. He works for EDL Consulting, an e-commerce consulting firm, where he leads client projects and internal product development using waterfall and agile methodologies. Shawn also teaches, speaks, and consults for businesses, universities, and professional organizations, including working as adjunct online faculty for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and University of California-Irvine and delivering face-to-face lectures at Lakeland College. He has given presentations to Project Management Institute (PMI) global conferences and local chapters. Shawn has been teaching project management since 2001.

    George Watson

    George L. Watson, PMP®, has over 25 years of project management experience with projects involving process improvement, organizational redesign, information technology, product development, and strategic planning. His commitment and ability to serve as a coach/mentor is strengthened by an extensive teaching background, having served as an adjunct faculty member, facilitator and trainer for over 20 years in the areas of management, project management and information technology. He currently serves as an internal consultant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Office of Quality Improvement and as an adjunct faculty member at the undergraduate and graduate levels.