Project Management Planning Foundations

Learning Objectives

• To discuss the major elements of a project plan.
• To analyze project scope planning techniques.
• To inspect project schedule planning techniques.
• To discuss project resource planning techniques. 
• To explain project planning estimating techniques
• To analyze how project planning can amplify or mitigate project risk.

Course Description

Projects are temporary endeavors undertaken to create a unique result or business impact.  Projects often are under time constraints and resource constraints.  To achieve the business impact given the constraints, the project team must develop a project plan that is responsive to both the goals and the constraints.

This online CPE webinar has four parts that introduce the principles and best practice tools used to develop project plans. It explores the tension between scope, schedule, resources, and risks. It also contrasts the project planning process of traditional project management with Agile scrum project management.

Following are the major topics covered of this CPE Management Course:

Project Planning Foundations: 

• Elements of a project plan, Primary project constraints, and planning, Traditional versus Agile scrum planning, Iterative planning with lessons learned, Creating and maintaining the baseline plan, Project leader’s role: communication and risk management.

Project Planning Scope: 

• Scope development and decomposition, Work Breakdown Structures, Project backlog, Quality requirements, and the “definition of done.” Task planning, Risk impact from scope planning.

Project Planning: Schedule: 

• Scheduling approaches, Schedule milestones, Schedule planning and network diagrams, Schedule tracking (Gantt charts and Scrum boards), Critical path principle, Burn-down chart, and Risk impact from schedule planning.

Project Planning: Resources:

• Resource planning approaches, Top-down and bottom-up budgeting, Project team responsibility matrix, Resource allocation, and resource leveling, and Risk impact from resource planning.

Join this CPE/CPD webinar by Raymond Sheen to understand Project Management Planning Foundations!

Overview

• Project leader responsibilities

  5 mins
• Project constraints and planning

  24 mins
• Determining scope boundaries

  59 mins
• Elements of a story card

  85 mins
• Determining the schedule

  106 mins
• Critical path methods

  131 mins
• Developing a responsibility matrix

  167 mins
• Technique: Bottom-up estimate

  194 mins