Project Management I: Intensive

$
1800.00
3 days | 24 academic hours


Training objectives
Training program Day 1
Training program Day 2
Training program Day 3

Training objectives

  • To get comprehensive information on recent updates and amendments to IFRS
  • To learn about the current status of IASB projects to issue new and amend existing standards
  • Learn about EY experience with the recent amendments and interpretations of IFRS

Training program Day 1

Project Management Essentials
  • Characteristics of a project
  • Fundamental concepts in project management
  • Project management standards. PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition
  • Project life cycles: predictive, hybrid, adaptive
Predictive Project Life Cycle
  • Project objectives and the triple constraints of project management. Critical success factors and project scope
  • Project life cycle and its phases
  • Project roles: Project Manager, Product Owner, Sponsor, Project Team, Project Management Office (PMO)
Project Initiation
  • Development Approaches & Life Cycle Performance Domain
  • Purpose and process of project initiation
  • Project charter as the initiating document: components and structure
  • Stakeholder Performance Domain. Stakeholder identification, stakeholder map, interaction strategies
Project Planning
  • Planning Performance Domain
  • Project and product scope
  • Gathering and prioritizing stakeholder requirements
  • Describing the project scope. Developing a work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Establishing a fundamental scope plan

Training program Day 2

Project Planning (continued)
  • Project scheduling
  • Evaluating task dependencies and durations
  • Estimating work durations
  • Three-point estimation technique
  • Scheduling techniques: critical path method, early and late start dates, float
  • Project duration compression techniques (crashing and fast tracking)
  • Fundamental project schedule
Project budget planning
  • Precision of cost estimates and their scope of application
  • Techniques for formulating a project budget and estimation accuracy
  • Budget contingency
  • Management reserves and provisions for potential losses
  • Cost baseline establishment
Uncertainty Performance Domain. Project risk management planning
  • Risk identification. Risk register
  • Qualitative risk assessment
  • Risk response strategies. Selection of responses appropriate to the risk magnitude

Training program Day 3

Project Execution
  • Project Work Performance Domain. Organizing project execution
  • Change management: change requests, impact assessment on project objectives, corrective and preventive actions
  • Measurement Performance Domain. Performance control by scope, schedule, and cost. Earned value management (EVM)
  • Forecasts to completion and at completion
  • Project performance reporting
  • Project balancing by scope, schedule, and cost
  • “Team” domain: Team leadership, building high-performing teams
  • Team formation
  • RACI matrix
  • Team charter and values
  • Project team life cycle
Project Closure
  • Delivery Performance Domain. Significance of project closure: key closing activities
  • Criteria for successful and unsuccessful project completion
  • Primary causes of project failures
  • Capturing and formally documenting lessons learned from the project