Project Management Fundamentals Training in Hong Kong

Who Should Attend?

• Articulate the relevance of core project management competences.
• Identify key project goals and assumptions and set the stage for value delivery.
• Understand how to identify stakeholders and assess how to engage with them during the project.
• Meet stakeholder informational needs by creating an actionable communication plan.
• Articulate product scope as part of the charter.
• Become familiar with the process of eliciting and capturing requirements.
• Create the WBS and dictionary that would deliver the scope in the project charter.
• Perform a more detailed and systematic assessment of risk.
• Articulate guiding quality characteristics for the project.
• Sequence activities, create schedule, and estimate the cost of the project.
• Manage change in projects.
• Track value delivery in projects.
• Understand the basics of a project retrospective.

By the end of this course, you should have gained a good understanding and experience of the core competencies that make a successful project manager.

Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.

PMI is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

This is a BYOD course. Students should bring a PC, Mac, or tablet to class in order to access digital course materials. Students can download a copy of the course materials in their MyGK account.

1: Match competence to scenario
2: Evaluate a project business case
3: Identify and assess stakeholders

• Stakeholders
• Resource management
• Teams

4: Develop a communication plan
5: Define product scope

• Project charter
• Product and project scope

6: Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements

• Requirements

7: Create WBS and dictionary

• Work
• Work breakdown structure

8: Create risk register

• Risk identification and management

9: Establish quality metrics
10: Create an initial schedule and budget

• Effort and duration
• Estimating effort
• Level of accuracy in estimates
• Team-based estimation
• Scheduling
• Estimating cost

11: Review and disposition a change request

• Change management

12: Use metrics to reassess the business case

• Delivering business value

13: Close out a project