COR 732 - Project Management Introduction
Course Description
Successful projects follow a systematic and organized management method, typically using a five (5) phase approach. Utilizing a process-based approach towards project management considers the sequencing and interaction of all the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs tailored to meet the stakeholders' requirements.
This session provides an in-depth exploration of project management phases, covering essential concepts, methodologies, and best practices for successfully navigating each stage of a project's lifecycle. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing phases, along with practical techniques for managing resources, risks, and stakeholders effectively. Participants will learn how the tasks, activities, and process groups interact within each project life cycle phase and contribute to a project.
Course Details
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Examine project management principles, methodologies, and best practices
- Identify the tools and processes required to select, initiate and define the requirements of a project
- Describe Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and how it helps organize the activities required to meet the objectives of the project.
- Describe WBS strategies that help break down deliverables, sub-deliverables of a project and form the basis for assigning resources or determining roles and responsibilities for project managers, subject matter experts and other internal or external stakeholders.
- Explore fundamental project management documents such as a project charter, project plan, and work breakdown structure.
- Explore different ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be incorporated in project management, such as document preparation, task performance, productivity enhancement, etc.
- Examine the role of process groups within projects and how they interact within each phase of a project life cycle.
- Explain how the five process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing) are applied within a project
Topics of Instruction
- Requirements of a project
- Process-based Approach
- Five Process Groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring, Controlling, and Closing