Project Management Training Course
Chicago, Los Angeles, Online
Looking for Project Management training in Chicago or Los Angeles?
During the stay at home order all classes will be taught via instructor-led Zoom webinar. Trainees will still have the option of repeating in-person (free of charge) once the restrictions are lifted.
Our 2-day instructor-led Project Management classes are ideal for anyone who is new to Project Management who needs to learn how to complete projects on time and within budget.
Once considered a specialist skill, Project Management is today an important and necessary skill for all team leaders and managers.
Course Summary
Project Management
This course teaches participants the fundamentals of project management. You will learn how to manage time and costs, implement quality measures, handle project risks, acquire and motivate team members and communicate effectively.
2 Days | $895.00
What's Included
Certificate of Course Completion
Training Manual
FREE Class Repeat
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course trainees will be able to:
- Identify the critical functions, skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager
- Define the project scope
- Write a project charter
- Develop a task list
- Assign resources and estimate resource costs
- Compute a project's estimate at completion (EAC)
- Design a risk management plan
- Establish baselines and monitor progress
- Compute the variance at completion (VAC)
- Write closeout reports and terminate a project
Detailed course outline
- Key Concepts
- What is a Project?
- What is Project Management?
- What is a Project Manager?
- About the Project Management Institute (PMI)
- About the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK)
- The Five Process Groups
- The Nine Knowledge Areas
- The Triple Constraint
- Project Initiation
- Identifying Your Stakeholders
- Assessing Needs and Wants
- Setting a SMART Project Goal
- Creating Requirements and Deliverables
- Creating a Statement of Work
- Completing the Project Planning Worksheet
- Completing the Project Charter
- Planning
- Managing Expectations
- Creating a Task List
- Estimating Time
- Estimating Resources
- Estimating Costs
- Building the Work Breakdown Structure
- Creating the Schedule
- Creating a Risk Management Plan
- Creating a Communication Plan
- Planning Tools
- The Gantt Chart
- The Network Diagram
- Using a RACI Chart
- Introduction to Microsoft Project
- Establishing Baselines
- Monitoring Project Progress
- Triple Constraint Reduction Methods
- Maintaining and Controlling the Project
- Making the Most of Status Updates
- Managing Change
- Monitoring Risks
- Closing Out
- Preparing for Closeout
- Celebrating Successes
- Learning from Project Challenges
- Scope Verification
- A Final To-Do List
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.
Timetable
Chicago
230 W Monroe St
#610
Chicago
IL 60606View Map
Live Classroom 
Live Online
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Limited Seats Left
Class times: 9.00am to 4.30pm Central Time
Servicing Arlington Heights, Aurora, Bollingbrook, Chicago Loop,
Deerfield, Des Plaines, Evanston, Highland Park, Joliet, Naperville,
Schaumburg, Skokie, South Chicago and surrounding areas.
Los Angeles
915 Wilshire Blvd
#1800
Los Angeles
CA 90017View Map
Live Classroom Live Online
Guaranteed to Run Limited Seats Left
Class times: 9.00am to 4.30pm Pacific Time
Servicing Anaheim, Burbank, Covina, Downtown, Fullerton,
Irvine, Long Beach, Northridge, Pasadena, San Bernardino,
Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Ventura and surrounding areas.
Other Cities
Recent student feedback
stars “ I thought that this Project Management Training course was "awesome". The instructor used real life experience, along with The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management book/manual. I found the instructor to be fair minded, & experienced, in the project management training environment. I would recommend this class to my fellow co-workers, senior management and family. Thanks Training Connection.” Lajaria Willis-Manley
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This class consists of 14 hours of tuition which equates to 14 PDUs.
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