Project Management Training Course

Chicago, Los Angeles

Once considered a specialist skill, Project Management is today an important and necessary skill for all team leaders and managers. You will learn the skills needed to deliver high quality projects on time and within scope and budget constraints.

Onsite training available countrywide.

Course summary

Project Management Fundamentals

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
Executing the 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

Aug 7 - 8Book
Sep 28 - 29Book
Oct 26 - 27Book
Dec 7 - 8Book

Guaranteed to Run Limited Seats Left

Class times: 9.00am to 4.30pm

Servicing Arlington Heights, Aurora, Bollingbrook, Chicago Loop,
Deerfield, Des Plaines, Evanston, Highland Park, Joliet, Naperville,
Schaumburg, Skokie, South Chicago and surrounding areas.

Other Cities

Los Angeles

915 Wilshire Blvd
#1800
Los Angeles
CA 90017View Map

Sep 5 - 6Book
Oct 2 - 3Book
Nov 9 - 10Book
Dec 20 - 21Book

Guaranteed to Run Limited Seats Left

Class times: 9.00am to 4.30pm

Servicing Anaheim, Burbank, Covina, Downtown, Fullerton,
Irvine, Long Beach, Northridge, Pasadena, San Bernardino,
Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Ventura and surrounding areas.

Choosing the right class

Recent student feedback

5.0 stars “Rich did an excellent job of relating the training content to everyday examples, being mindful that everyone in the class works in a different office environment. Thanks for a great class.” Tina Ortman
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

5.0 stars “Christian Greer's talent is unlimited. He is a fantastic PM instructor and what he brings to the table is considerable. I not only enjoyed his manner and the way he delivered the content, but I think the way he challenges the class to come up with solutions made this class a worth every cent. He gives his students real life examples. He provides a lot of sources. He makes a point to share ideas that are geared to each student. He is a great teacher. Christian would make anything he would teach interesting.” Lisa LaChapelle
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5.0 stars “I cannot say enough good things about this course! The knowledge and tools that I gained from the course is priceless and will help me to further my career. Christian has been a joy to work with and has been very inspirational. I am definitively going to take more classes in order to enhance my new knowledge-base.” Cheryl Van Nuys
Hospira Inc.

4.9 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
US Department of Education

How to register

Project Management resources

This class consists of 14 hours of tuition which equates to 14 PDUs. Click here for more information on PDUs.

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