Applied Project Management Boot Camp

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Detailed Overview/Outline

This 5-day project simulation Boot Camp combines lectures, hands-on activities, and individual and team assignments to let you experience managing a project from original concept to archiving the project documents. This course enables you to walk through a complete project management life cycle, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Discover and validate a full range of PMBOK-specific project management processes from project charter through project closure. You will produce standard project artifacts including the WBS, risk management plan, integrated change management plan, communications plan, schedule, and budget. Based on approval from the project sponsor through role-play presentations to the instructor, you will then manage the project in a simulated environment through to completion, including the formation and management of the project team, project tracking in MS Project, and regular project status reports to management. At the conclusion of the project, you will provide a closing presentation to the project sponsor that includes a thorough review of the results, lessons learned, and recommendations for improvements.

Certification

This course is required for our Professional Project Manager certification.

Global Knowledge is recognized by PMI® as a Global REP. You will earn 35 contact hours or PDUs upon completion of this course.

What You'll Learn

• Build a business case for a project
• Develop the project charter and scope
• Get sign-off from sponsors and buy-in from stakeholders
• Build a successful project team
• Learn estimating techniques
• Create a project schedule that is realistic and manageable
• Track your project using MS Project
• Identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
• Create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and stakeholder management
• Develop an integrated change management plan
• Manage project change
• Close a project

Who Needs to Attend
Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, product managers, and program managers.

Course Outline

1. Laying the Foundation

You will explore the Project Management Institute's (PMI) framework for project management including the life cycle processes and knowledge areas.

2. Defining a Project

Understand the difference between projects, programs, and reoccurring activities. Build a business case for your project, understand the significance of the triple constraints, develop your project scope through the use of a project charter, and identify and start to manage stakeholder expectations.

3. Creating the Schedule

You will learn the seven steps of successful planning and practice developing a work breakdown structure, effective estimates, diagramming a project, and identifying the critical path.

4. Planning for Quality

Be sure that what you deliver is what your customers expect. Learn how to develop quality plans and methods for quality assurance and control.

5. Managing the Risks

You will learn how to identify, assess, quantify, and manage risks through mitigation strategies and contingency planning.

6. Dealing with Vendors

A project typically involves working with vendors for software, hardware, services, or staff. Learn procurement planning and how to solicit, select, and manage vendors.

7. Managing the Project

Learn why base lining your project schedule can help as well as effective techniques to track and report progress. In addition, discover the importance of formal change control processes and managing organizational change as part of the project life cycle.

8. Closing the Project

Getting the final deliverable to the customer is not the end of the project. Learn the best practices for formal signoff, conducting lessons learned, and why archiving project documents is such an important step for you and your organization.

9. Case Studies

You will be given a realistic case study that will serve as the context for most of the exercises in the course. The case study project provides a basis for practicing new tools and techniques for managing the competing demands of a cross-functional project team, conflicting expectations among stakeholders, and significant, visible organizational impacts.

10. Exercises

Work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan for the case study project. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Use available progress information to determine the project's earned value. Consider various and competing expectations from stakeholders, including the customer, sponsor and team, as you develop and present plans to address expectations in ways that benefit the project.

Hands-On Activities - Practice Creating the Following:

• Project charter
• Work breakdown structure
• Network diagram and identifying the critical path
• Resource assignment matrix
• Communication, quality, risk, cost, procurement, and change control plans
• Budget
• Status report for schedule and budget

Sponsor Background:
About Global Knowledge

Founded in 1995, Global Knowledge, Inc. is the world's largest independent IT education integrator, offering more than 700 courses in more than 30 countries and in 15 languages. Global Knowledge’s blended IT education solutions combine vendor-authorized and proprietary content with Global Knowledge-developed curricula, delivered through the right mix of intensive hands-on classroom training and interactive e-Learning. The company offers complete IT education program management solutions including enrollment, assessment, progress tracking and certification. The company’s blended IT education solutions are delivered via instructor-led classroom (c-learning), virtual classroom (v-learning), self-paced e-Learning, and e-Learning tools or software applications.

Mission

Global Knowledge is dedicated to improving the way companies and individuals learn, use, and master technology through educational solutions that empower customers with choice, allowing them to determine when, where, and how they want their IT education programs to be designed and delivered.

Ownership

Global Knowledge, Inc., a privately held company based in Cary, NC, is owned by New York-based investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe.

Market Share

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), Global Knowledge is the fourth-largest provider of IT education solutions and holds 1.7% of total market share, roughly half that of the largest training company (IBM Global Services). In addition, Global Knowledge is the:

• #1 provider of networking training programs worldwide for combined vendor-authorized and proprietary programs
• #1 training provider worldwide for Cisco IT certification programs
• #1 training provider worldwide for Nortel certification programs
• #1 training provider worldwide for Linux certification programs
• #1 training provider in Europe and the Americas for Enterasys certification programs Employees

Global Knowledge employs over 1,800 people worldwide. Approximately 20% of its instructor base holds advanced degrees.

Individuals and organizations worldwide learn to master technology through Global Knowledge's integrated, blended solutions comprised of:

• Education Services: offering more than 700 different courses including manufacturer certifications for Cisco, Microsoft, Nortel, Oracle, Enterasys, and Red Hat.  In addition, Global Knowledge offers certification courses for internetworking and job skill certifications.
• Enterprise Services: developing custom integrated solutions to manage proficiencies for an information technology workforce.  Projects include large-scale rollouts; integration of personnel following mergers and acquisitions, customized accelerated certification training programs, and competence assessment.
• Knowledge Products: providing software products for just-in-time, in-application training and e-Learning solutions that include a comprehensive selection of self-paced and web-delivered training, mentoring, and remote lab services for high-value internetworking topics. The company offers titles on e-commerce, Nortel, Cisco, operating systems, ATM, computer networking and telecommunications. Global Knowledge also provides an e-Learning environment that enables the rapid design and web-deployment of training materials for enterprise applications and business processes.
• Outsourcing Services: managing complete education programs for many of the world’s largest corporations.

Strategic Partners and Clients

Global Knowledge continues to foster strategic partnerships and client relationships with some of the most dominant and pervasive players in the information technology industry today, including:

• AT&T
• Microsoft
• Association of Web Professionals
• Net G
• Centra
• NIIT
• Cisco Systems
• Nortel Networks
• CompTIA: A+, iNet+, Network+
• Novell
• Compaq
• Oracle
• Deutsche Telekom
• SAP
• Enterasys
• Soft Link, Inc
• Entrust
• Sprint
• Ericsson
• TruSecure Corporation
• ICCP
• TutorPro
• Korea Telecom
• University of Phoenix
• Legato
• Williams Communications
• McGraw/Hill Osborne
• WorldCom

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