Project Management Basics

Whatever your job title and description say, your daily work is most likely related to managing various projects. Fulfilling a client order, launching a new product, launching a communication campaign, a party at work, evaluating discussions, etc. Regardless of the scope and specifics of the work to be done, they are all projects with a similar structure and internal logic. Your ability to perform these tasks is determined by your ability to plan and organize, attract people, agree on involvement and criteria, and take other reasonable and purposeful actions to achieve the ideal result.

The course content is designed to understand and practically apply both the “Waterfall” project management method and gain insight into the Agile project management technique in managing small and medium-sized projects.

Objective

To provide basic knowledge, practical tools and methods for effective daily project management in various companies.

Benefits

• understanding of the essence of the project and methods for organizing it;

• understanding of the principles of project management for successful project implementation;

• techniques, tools and systems in project management;

• the ability to timely identify challenges and risks in project management and methods for managing them;

• differences in project management of different scales;

• understanding of the importance of communication and leadership in project management;

• basic principles in project monitoring.

Work method

Active and engaging form of work. The theoretical part is supplemented with examples and practical tasks, individual and group work, discussions, situation analysis.

Target audience

Company employees who manage or are involved in various daily projects and organizational tasks.

Program

1. Various project management methodologies (waterfall, agile).

2. Project life cycle (phases).

3. Project initiation.

• Defining the project goal.

• Creating a project team and defining roles.

• The role of company management in the project.

4. Project planning.

• Starting a project with a team.

• Defining the project content (what needs to be done during the project?).

• Creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) with the team.

• “AS IS - TO BE” process planning technique.

• Determining and controlling the project budget.

• Creating plans - communication plan, risk management plan and risk identification.

• Creating a project plan/timeline. Milestones.

5. Project implementation.

• Coordination of project work, monitoring the implementation of the project plan.

• Communication to the project team and the company.

• The importance of communication and leadership (active listening, empathy, result orientation, “good tone” - keeping promises, preparing high-quality materials, taking and following up on meeting minutes, good tone of meetings/calls, etc.).

• Simply important things - team energy, celebrating victories.

• Changes in project scope - what to do with them?

6. Closing the project.

• Project evaluation - has the goal been achieved? Were there any delays in the schedule and budget? What went well, what could have gone better?

• Preparing project deliverables.

• Awarding the project team and celebrating the work done.

• Archiving documents.

7. Feedback.