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Project Management Level II

Build on your foundation of project management and delve deeper into the Execution, Monitoring, and Closing phases. Learn to manage resources, and risks, and gain an introduction to Agile Project Management Frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.

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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this project management training:

Continue learning about the five stages of project management, focusing on the last three: Execution, Monitoring, and Closing. Learn to manage resources, risks, and get introduced to Agile Project Management Frameworks like Scrum and Kanban

In this course you’ll build off the foundation of our Project Management Level 1 class, to complete your understanding of the five stages of project management.

The Execution, Monitoring, & Closing Phases

Once the project is underway, it’s important for the project manager to ensure things continue to run smoothly, activities get completed on time and within budget. After the project is done, its time to wrap things up and track the lessons learned for the benefit of future projects.

Budgets, Resources, & Risk

Learn to work with budgets and costs, managing limited resources, and estimating/tracking activity costs to ensure the project remains within its budget.

Intro to Agile

Lastly, you’ll get an introduction to Agile Project Management. How is it different than Waterfall? You’ll get an overview of popular Agile Frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP). Being exposed to different project methodologies will help you see there are different approaches depending on your project’s needs, so you can choose the best management style for different types of projects.

Prerequisite

What You’ll Learn at a Glance

  • Continue learning about the five phases of project management, focusing on the last three: Execution, Monitoring, and Closing
  • Understand project costs and budgeting
  • Learn how to manage resources 
  • Manage risk, changes, and uncertainty

 Get an overview of Agile Project Management frameworks: Scrum, Kansan, and Extreme Programming (XP)

Learn more about Project Management Level II at Noble Desktop.

Syllabus

The Project Team

Team Development

  • Assembling a Team
  • Project Kickoff Meeting
  • Characteristics of Effective Teams
  • Barriers to Teams

Stages of Team Development

  • Stage 1: Forming
  • Stage 2: Storming
  • Stage 3: Norming
  • Stage 4: Performing

Budgets & Costs

Types of Costs

  • Resource cost rates
  • Reserve analysis
  • Contingency budget
  • Cost of quality

Determining Activity Costs

  • Estimate Activity Costs

Determining Project Budget

  • Calculations
  • Total Budgeted Cost (TBC)
  • Time-Phased Budget
  • Cumulative Budgeted Cost (CBC)

The Execution Phase

Determining Actual Costs

  • Determine Actual Cost
  • Compare Actual Cost to Budgeted Cost
  • Actual Accumulated Cost by Period
  • Cumulative Budgeted & Actual Cost Curve

Determining the Value of Work Performed

  • Determine Value of Work Performed
  • Earned Value (EV)
  • Cumulative Earned Value

Cost Performance & Project Status

  • Analyze Cost Performance
  • Measure Project Status

Cost Analysis

  • Analyze Cost Performance
  • Cost Performance Index (CPI)
  • Cost Variance (CV)
  • Estimating the Cost at Completion
  • Forecasted Cost at Completion (FCAC)

Controlling Costs & Corrective Action

  • Cost Control Steps
  • When to Take Corrective Action

Limited Resources: Leveling & Smoothing

Resource Leveling

Resource Limited Scheduling

Risk Management

Risks & Issues

  • Identify Risks
  • Risk Assessment
  • Probability & Impact Matrix
  • Risk Appetite

Common Types of Risks

  • External Risks
  • Single Point of Failure

Risk Mitigation

  • Common Ways of Dealing With Risk

Project Communication

Meetings

  • Project Kickoff Meeting
  • Different Types of Meetings

Reports

  • Different Types of Reports

Plans

  • Project Plans
  • Document Control Plan
  • Project Communication Plan

The Closing Phase

Final Payments

Staff Recognition & Evaluation

Post Project Evaluation

Lessons Learned

Archive Project Documents

Customer Feedback

Early Project Termination

Agile Project Management

Overview of Agile

The Agile Manifesto

Agile vs. Waterfall

Agile Frameworks

Scrum

  • Scrum Concepts
  • Scrum Roles
  • Why is Scrum So Popular?
  • When Scrum Works Best

Kanban

  • Kanban boards
  • Work-in-Process (WIP) Limit

Extreme Programming (XP)

  • Extreme Programming (XP) Activities
  • Designing
  • Coding
  • Testing
  • Listening

Refund Policy

  • Students may cancel up to 14 days before the class/program start date and receive a refund, less the registration fee (10% of the undiscounted course price). 
  • Cancellations within 14 days are not permitted, but students may reschedule up to three business days before the class start date.
  • For cancellations and reschedules, please email us at [email protected]"

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