1) Day One Opening Activities
a) Objectives, agenda, ground rules
b) Participant introductions
2) The Project Life Cycle
a) Project Initiation
b) Project Planning
c) Project Execution
d) Project Control
e) Project Closing
3) The Iron Triangle
a) Project Scope Management
i) Scope in the life cycle
ii) The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
(1) WBS Construction Exercise
iii) Scope validation
b) Project Time Management
i) Project estimating methods
ii) Project scheduling methods
iii) Gantt
iv) Network diagramming
v) Schedule compression techniques
vi) Project tracking methods
c) Project Cost Management
i) Resource estimating
ii) Managing free float
4) Day One Closing Activities
a) WBS Estimating Exercise
b) Evaluation
5) Day Two Opening Activities
a) WBS Estimating Exercise reports
6) Managing Risk in Projects
a) Identifying risk
i) Risk Identification Exercise
b) Quantifying risk
c) Risk management strategies
d) Procurement
e) Contingency planning
f) Alternative strategies
g) Insurance
h) Acceptance
7) Managing Change in Projects
a) Sources of change
b) Impacts of change
i) Change Impact Exercise
c) Change control process
8) Day Two Closing Activities
a) Workshop follow-up
b) Course objective review
c) Certificates of Completion
d) Evaluation