Project Management:
Basic,
Second Edition
Topic-Level Outline
Days: 1
Prerequisites: None
Unit 1: Fundamentals of project management
Topic A:0 Projects
A-1: Identifying the characteristics of a project
A-2: Understanding product and project management
Topic B:0 The project management process
B-1: Identifying process groups
B-2: Avoiding pitfalls
Unit 2: Characteristics of a project
Topic A:0 The project environment
A-1: Understanding internal and external environments
A-2: Identifying stakeholders’ influence on a project
A-3: Identifying socioeconomic and organizational issues
A-4: Discussing the functional organizational structure
A-5: Discussing the project organizational structure
A-6: Identifying types of organizational structure
Topic B:0 The project manager
B-1: Identifying relationships between managers
B-2: Identifying the skills of a project manager
B-3: Identifying the responsibilities of a project manager
B-4: Identifying a project manager’s challenges
Topic C:0 The project team
C-1: Identifying project staffing issues
C-2: Staffing a project team
C-3: Hiring staff from outside the organization
C-4: Managing difficulties and logistics
C-5: Identifying the need for team building
C-6: Identifying core team members
C-7: Developing and staffing a project office
Unit 3: Project initiation and scope planning
Topic A:0 Project initiation
A-1: Identifying the impact of historical information
A-2: Identifying project selection methods
A-3: Discussing project deliverables
A-4: Exploring project charters
A-5: Identifying project constraints
Topic B:0 Scope planning
B-1: Identifying parts of the scope planning process
B-2: Creating a scope statement
B-3: Managing scope creep
Unit 4: Scope definition, verification, and change control
Topic A:0 Scope definition
A-1: Decomposing a project
A-2: Identifying breakdown structures
A-3: Identifying the deliverables of a WBS
A-4: Sizing work packages
A-5: Creating a WBS
Topic B:0 Scope verification
B-1: Discussing scope verification
B-2: Determining the timing of scope verification
Topic C:0 Scope change control
C-1: Understanding scope change control
C-2: Developing a scope change control system
C-3: Maintaining a database of lessons learned
Unit 5: Time management
Topic A:0 Activity definition and sequencing
A-1: Discussing time management components
A-2: Distinguishing between tasks, activities, and events
A-3: Identifying types of activities
A-4: Identifying dependencies
A-5: Using network diagrams
A-6: Discussing precedence
A-7: Using the arrow diagramming method
A-8: Discussing the Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique
Topic B:0 Activity duration
B-1: Assessing activity duration
B-2: Differentiating activity duration from work effort
B-3: Identifying estimation techniques
Unit 6: Schedule development and control
Topic A:0 Schedule development
A-1: Discussing schedule development
A-2: Identifying free float and total float
A-3: Discussing mathematical analysis techniques
A-4: Using CPM
A-5: Evaluating CPM, PERT, and GERT
A-6: Exploring duration compression methods
A-7: Presenting a project schedule
Topic B:0 Schedule control
B-1: Discussing resource allocation
B-2: Controlling a schedule
B-3: Calculating schedule variance
Unit 7: Resource identification and cost approximating
Topic A:0 Resource identification
A-1: Identifying cost estimating components
A-2: Discussing resource identification tools
A-3: Identifying resources
A-4: Assigning resources
Topic B:0 Cost approximating
B-1: Making cost approximations
B-2: Assessing factors affecting cost estimates
B-3: Identifying cost budgeting techniques
B-4: Discussing cost estimation and pitfalls
B-5: Identifying cost estimating problems
Unit 8: Budgeting and cost control
Topic A:0 Cost budgeting
A-1: Discussing value engineering and S-curves
A-2: Using budget standards and a cost management plan
A-3: Discussing capital budgeting
A-4: Using depreciation methods
Topic B:0 Cost control
B-1: Discussing cost control guidelines
B-2: Calculating variance
B-3: Calculating the performance index
B-4: Calculating BAC, EAC, and VAC