Project Management Essentials
Defining & Managing Project Success
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Why Choose Project Management Essentials Training Course?
This Defining & Managing Project Success training course is designed to present the basics of project management with a focus on understanding project management terms, project selection, planning, estimating, scheduling, and earned value management. If you are new to projects or been assigned to projects and need to understand how to manage the project, this is the training course for you. This Project Management Essentials training course will also cover the highlights of quality, risk and procurement. You will leave this training course with a full understanding of what project management is and how to manage a successful project.
This Project Management Essentials training course will feature:
- Review & understanding of common project management practices
- Hands on experience with the project charter, scope statement, & earned value management
- Appraisal of projects using project selection techniques, project chartering & gathering requirements
- Understand project management tools & procedures that can be implemented to improve or establish formal project management methodologies
What are the Goals?
By the end of This Project Management Essentials training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of project management - the ability to initiate, plan & execute basic controls for a project
- Understand the techniques of project planning and how to deliver one
- Understand how to define project success using key performance indicators & quality metrics
- Identify risks and understanding the advantages of various types of contracts
- Understand how to control, manage and close a project to your customers satisfaction
The Course Content
- Understanding what project management is
- Defining project and product life cycles
- Understanding Best Practice Project Management
- How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
- Managing the project selection process
- Writing SMART objectives and business cases
Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises
- Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
- Defining the project management
- Understand how to collect requirements
- Defining the full project scope
- Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures
Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement
- Understanding what a realistic schedule is
- Defining and managing dependencies
- How to estimate project durations and costs
- Creating and optimising the project schedule
- Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
- How to control the cost, schedule and resources
Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating
- Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
- Presenting and defining the project resource plan
- Developing a communication plan
- Managing Virtual Teams
- Understanding and reviewing project risk
- Managing the project contract against project constraints
Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise
- Using project software to track projects
- Dealing with project management problems
- Project case reviews and discussion
- Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
- Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
- Lessons learned, why, when and what
Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned
Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
- The applicable PMI Professional Development Units/Contact Hours will be reflected in the Certificate of Completion
Accreditation
AZTech is a proud ILM Recognised Organisation. This credential recognises that the organisation delivers quality in-house training programmes that have gained recognition from ILM, global leaders in leadership, management & coaching learning excellence.
How Saudi Aztech Can Enhance Your Professional Career
At Aztech Saudi, we believe that professional development is the foundation of long-term career success. This training course is expertly designed to equip individuals with practical skills, forward-thinking strategies, and the confidence to navigate today’s dynamic work environments. Each course is delivered by subject matter specialists with extensive industry experience, ensuring that every learning experience is relevant, impactful, and aligned with real-world challenges. Whether you're looking to strengthen your technical expertise, enhance leadership abilities, or stay ahead of industry trends, Aztech Saudi provides the tools you need to elevate your performance and deliver measurable value to your organization.
Our training is more than just knowledge transfer—it’s a catalyst for career transformation. By participating in our courses, professionals gain a competitive advantage in their fields, improve their decision-making capabilities, and position themselves for new opportunities and leadership roles. We take pride in supporting individuals across various sectors and career stages, helping them unlock their full potential through high-quality, globally benchmarked learning experiences. With Aztech Saudi as your development partner, you’re not only investing in education—you're investing in a stronger, more successful future.
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