Project Management
Project Management Essentials
A hands-on two-day introduction to the core tools every project manager needs: charters, stakeholders, scope, WBS, schedules, budgets, risks, communication, dashboards, change control, closure, and lessons learned.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $1295.00
About this course
Course overview
Build the practical habits of effective project management.
Project Management Essentials is a two-day, hands-on introduction for new project managers, project coordinators, team leads, sponsors, and project team members who need a practical foundation for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects.
The course uses an end-to-end sample project so learners practice the tools, conversations, and decisions they will use on real work. Participants leave with a project charter, planning toolkit, communication plan, dashboard/checkpoint approach, change-control practice, and 30-day project management action plan.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Define project goals, business value, success criteria, stakeholders, assumptions, constraints, and a practical project charter
- Build scope, WBS, schedule, budget, quality, resource, communication, and risk baselines appropriate to project size
- Coordinate tasks, resources, communication, stakeholder engagement, team expectations, and issue escalation
- Monitor scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, and changes using dashboards, decisions, and corrective actions
- Analyze change requests and present practical recommendations based on scope, schedule, cost, risk, and value trade-offs
- Confirm deliverable acceptance, transition ownership, release resources, and document lessons learned
- Document 16.0 PMI education PDUs: 11 Ways of Working, 3 Power Skills, and 2 Business Acumen
Audience
Who it's for
- New project managers, project coordinators, team leads, supervisors, and project team members
- Functional leaders and subject matter experts who manage projects without formal PM training
- Sponsors and stakeholders who need a clearer view of project fundamentals and delivery discipline
- Professionals who want practical project management foundations without full PMP exam preparation
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 - Initiation and Planning
- Project purpose, project versus operations, project life cycle, roles, governance, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria
- Predictive, adaptive, and hybrid delivery basics; right-sizing project management for small and medium-sized work
- Business case, goals, deliverables, high-level scope, risks, milestones, approval criteria, and project charter development
- Stakeholder identification, power/interest mapping, communication needs, engagement strategy, and sponsor alignment
- Scope statements, deliverables, exclusions, acceptance criteria, WBS, task sequencing, dependencies, estimates, critical path, and schedule baseline
- Budget estimates, cost baseline, resource planning, quality expectations, risk identification, probability/impact assessment, and response planning
Day 2 - Execution, Control, and Closure
- Task ownership, team coordination, meeting cadence, communication plan, status reporting, and decision records
- Stakeholder updates, difficult conversations, motivation, accountability, and protecting project boundaries
- Tracking scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, actions, dependencies, and key performance indicators
- Dashboard interpretation, root-cause discussion, corrective actions, escalation, and management-by-exception
- Change requests, impact analysis, scope/schedule/cost trade-offs, decision rights, change boards, and approval documentation
- Deliverable acceptance, transition, operational handoff, documentation, team release, procurement closeout, lessons learned, and 30-day action planning
Public cohorts
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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