Applied Project Management Program (APMP) for freshers
March 14, 2022 2022-04-25 16:26Applied Project Management Program (APMP) for freshers
Applied Project Management Program (APMP) for freshers
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Introduction to the course
Welcome to the exciting world of opportunities in professional project management. This course is for all those who want to master professional project management. Upon completion of this course, you will learn the best practices pertaining to project planning, execution, monitoring&controlling and closing. The course is driven by case studies. The knowledge is transferred through instructor led classroom sessions, reading material, quizzes, labs and assessments. You are required to score at least 80% for the successful completion of the course. You are allowed to repeat the assessment tests, till you achieve this goal. The next step is to study any one of the following case study and complete the case study related quiz. Now, choose the case study of interest to you, read it completely and complete the associated quiz.
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Session#1 - Introduction to Professional Project Management
This session will introduce you to the basic definitions, purpose, roles & responsibilities, and the project initiation process. Time required : 5 hours
- What is a project and why are they performed? – lesson
- What is a project and why are they performed – quiz
- What is the success criteria of projects? – lesson
- What is the success criteria of projects? – quiz
- The project team and their roles and responsibilities – lesson
- Project team, their roles and responsibilities – quiz
- How to work effectively in project teams? – lesson
- How to work effectively in project teams – quiz
- Project initiation – lesson
- Project initiation – quiz
- Identifying the key stakeholders – lesson
- Identifying the key stakeholders – quiz
- Role definition – lesson
- Role definition – quiz
- High level risks of projects – lesson
- High level risks of projects – quiz
- Developing the project’s charter – lesson
- Developing the project’s charter – quiz
- Information definition (Communication plan) – lesson
- Information definition (Communication plan) – quiz
- Project lab
- Project lab assessment
- Session#1 assessment
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Session#2 - Project planning #1
Session#2 to Session#5 explains the project planning processes in detail. In session#2, we will be discussing about the process of decomposing the scope of the project into a work breakdown structure (WBS) in detail
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Session#3 - Project planning #2
In this session we will learn how to define the project's organization breakdown structure (OBS), linking the OBS and WBS, and developing the resource breakdown structure
- Project’s organization breakdown structure (OBS) – lesson
- Project’s organization breakdown structure (OBS) – quiz
- Establishing linkages between the OBS and the WBS – lesson
- Establishing linkages between the OBS and the WBS – quiz
- Developing the Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) of the project – lesson
- Developing the Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) of the project – quiz
- Project lab
- Project lab assessment
- Session#3 assessment
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Session#4 - Project planning#3
Cost estimation, budgeting, schedule development
- Cost estimation – lesson
- Cost estimation – quiz
- Budgeting – lesson
- Budgeting – quiz
- Cost breakdown structure – lesson
- Cost breakdown structure – quiz
- Schedule development & base lining – lesson
- Schedule development & base lining – quiz
- Rules of credit – lesson
- Rules of credit – quiz
- Project lab
- Project lab assessment
- Session#4 – assessment
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Session#5 - Project planning#4
Upon successful completion of this session you will master interfacing with other systems, planning communication, planning quality, planning risk management and planning contingencies
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Session#6 - Project Execution
Execution data capture, change control, quality management, risk control, contingency management and communication's management
- Project execution data capture – lesson
- Project execution data capture – quiz
- Change control – lesson
- Change control – quiz
- Quality management – lesson
- Quality management – quiz
- Risk control – lesson
- Risk control – quiz
- Contingency management – lesson
- Contingency management – quiz
- Communication management – lesson
- Communication management – quiz
- Project lab
- Project lab assessment
- Session#6 assessment
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Session#7 - Monitoring & Controlling
Monitoring & Controlling costs, quality and risk. Forecasting using earned value management (EVM)
- Control costs – lesson
- Control costs – quiz
- Control quality – lesson
- Control quality – quiz
- Risk monitoring – lesson
- Risk monitoring – quiz
- Planned Value, Earned Value – lesson
- Planned Value, Earned Value – quiz
- Actual cost – lesson
- Actual cost – quiz
- Forecasting Cost and Schedule – lesson
- Forecasting Cost and Schedule – quiz
- Control schedule – lesson
- Control schedule – quiz
- Project lab
- Project lab assessment
- Session#7 assessment
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Session#8 - Closing the project
Snag management, forensic analysis, formal closure, asset transition
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Session#9 - Integrated Project Management
Case study analysis of a project starting from initiation till asset transition
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Session#10 - Course end project work
The participants are required to submit a sample project covering initiation till hand over
