Project Management for Engineers Workshop Full Outline

Course Outline

Project Management Fundamentals

• Project management goals & challenges
• Key project success factors
• Project management terminology
• Managing requirements and tradeoffs
• Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Cost of delay

Project Lifecycle Models and Frameworks

• Waterfall and sequential models
• Agile models and frameworks
• Staged Delivery Model
• Spiral Model
• Design-to-Schedule Model
• Hybrid models
• Lifecycle model exercise

Initial Project Planning

• Successful project kickoffs
• Estimating and planning flow
• Methods for initial estimates
• Estimation exercise
• Project planning elements and templates
• Focus areas and key criteria for success
• Project planning exercise

Schedule Management and Ongoing Refinement

• Waterfall and Agile scheduling approaches
• Scheduling tools
• Dependency management
• Risk mitigation
• Estimate refinement and methods
• Estimating and scheduling exercise

Project Visibility and Successful Execution

• Stakeholder engagement and support
• Demonstrating tangible progress
• Facilitating timely decisions
• Real-time visibility methods and tools
• Summary of key points and quiz

What’s included: Live instructor-led course, workshop materials, facilitated action plan, Excel planning templates, and follow-up guidance.

Professional Development Units: 8.0 PDUs

For PMI credit, report as courses from other third-party providers.