Understanding and Thriving with Projects

Course Description:

Understanding and Thriving with Projects is an introduction to project management, focusing on how projects fit into organizations. This course is a first introduction to projects, primarily for non-managers. You will participate in a number of exercises designed to highlight your roles and responsibilities with regard to projects within your own organization. If you contribute to projects but are not responsible for project planning or management, then this course will answer key questions about the emerging profession of project management.

Objectives:

During the course, participants will discuss the activities required to initiate and plan, execute and control, and close-out a project. They will examine the use of reports to help them manage and communicate information about their projects. They will develop a plan for a small project using the provided outlines for the basic planning documents.

Duration:

1 day, hands-on.

Course Outline:

Introduction
Managing in Organizations
Project Management Basics
Using Project Management
Project Management Body of Knowledge
Conclusions & Review

Class Size:

SOMOS experience has shown the optimal class size to be between 14 and 20 students. This enables proper interaction between the participants and the instructor.

Course Materials:

Course participants will be provided with the following course materials:

Course notes
Exercise booklet

Target Audience:

Functional staff
People who are not currently interested in a career in project management
People who contribute to or support projects

Prerequisites:

None

Registration Information:

This course is offered to groups of 15 or more .

If you would like to discuss your organization's management development needs with a SOMOS account executive, please click here or call 613-592-5050 x229.

Refer to course code 1UTP00 - Understanding and Thriving with Projects