Lesson 1: The Project Management Life Cycle

• What is a project?
• Project Management Life Cycle
• Roles of project manager
• Project manager as leader

Lesson 2: Setting Up for Success

• What is a successful project?
• What happens in the initiation phase?
• Value proposition
• Project charter
• Project scope
• Statement of work

Lesson 3 : The Project Team

• Teamwork challenge
• Selecting team members
• Team charter

Lesson 4: Risk Management

• Risk identification
• Risk assessment
• Risk management
• Risk register

Lesson 5 : Project Plans

• Work Breakdown Structure
• Developing work package dependencies
• Network logic diagram
  

Lesson 6: The Project Schedule
Scheduling process

• Time estimates
• Lags and leads
• Calculating a critical path

Lesson 7: The Project Budget

• What is a budget?
• Creating a preliminary budget
• Budget and schedule balancing

Lesson 8: Project Tracking and Control

• Moving a project forward
• Conflict resolution
• Monitoring for project progress
• Earned value analysis
• Getting back on track

Lesson 9: Project Quality

• Defining quality
• Quality assurance
• Quality control

Lesson 10: Project Reports

• Communications plan
• Project performance reports
• Project change requests

Lesson 11: Project Close-out

• Elements of close-out
• Evaluation of people and projects
• Final report