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.
Let’s Make Things Happen
Contact us today for a complimentary consultation to discuss your group’s agile or engineering leadership development objectives.