A PMI Certified Training Course
Project Management Essentials
Defining & Managing Project Success
Why Choose Project Management Essentials Training Course?
The Project Management Essentials Training Course gives participants a clear, practical understanding of the fundamentals required to manage projects successfully from start to finish. It provides a structured introduction to the core elements of project initiation, planning, estimating, scheduling, and earned value management—ensuring that delegates understand how projects operate and how to apply recognised project management tools in real situations. For individuals new to project work or recently assigned to project responsibilities, this course builds the foundation needed to confidently lead or contribute to project activities.
This Project Management Essentials Course guides learners through the essential terminology, processes, and techniques used in the profession. It covers the development of project charters, scope statements, work breakdown structures, project selection techniques, and the fundamentals of quality, risk, and procurement management. Each concept is explored through practical exercises, allowing candidates to learn by doing and reinforce their understanding through hands-on application.
Participants completing this Project Management Essentials Training Course leave with a practical view of how to initiate, plan, control, and close a project while maintaining alignment with stakeholder expectations and organisational objectives. The course ensures that all delegates walk away with the confidence to apply project management methods immediately in their roles.
What are the Goals?
The Project Management Essentials Training Course aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of how to apply core project management principles in real-world environments. It equips learners with proven techniques for planning, controlling, and closing projects while developing the ability to evaluate project success through appropriate metrics.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the core functions required to initiate, plan, and control a project.
- Apply essential planning techniques to deliver accurate schedules and project documents.
- Define project success using KPIs, quality metrics, and customer expectations.
- Identify and analyse project risks while understanding the role of different contract types.
- Manage, monitor, and close a project using structured tools and best practices.
Who is this Training Course for?
The Project Management Essentials Course is designed for individuals who contribute to, support, or manage projects and need a strong foundation in project management practices. It is particularly beneficial for professionals who are new to managing projects or require practical skills to support upcoming project assignments.
This training course will greatly benefit:
- Professionals currently or potentially involved in project work.
- Individuals assigned as project team members within any business function.
- Staff preparing to transition into project roles and needing rapid skill development.
- Professionals who contribute to project planning, documentation, or reporting.
- Individuals seeking to understand how to select, plan, and manage projects effectively.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This Project Management Essentials Training Course uses interactive and engaging learning techniques designed to maximise understanding and retention. Delegates work through a central project scenario, applying the concepts learned in real time while completing essential project deliverables.
Hands-on assignments, team exercises, and guided discussions reinforce each stage of the project life cycle. Participants create key project documents such as scope statements, work breakdown structures, risk registers, network diagrams, and earned value reports, ensuring that learning is both practical and immediately applicable.
Training delivery includes:
- Scenario-based learning applied throughout all modules.
- Practical exercises to create key project documents and deliverables.
- Group discussions and problem-solving sessions.
- Real-world examples emphasising learning by doing.
- Instructor guidance to support application of tools and techniques.
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 and Accreditation
- 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
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