Project and Programme Management Courses

Project Management Essentials (PMBOK)

  • Length 2 days
  • Price  NZD 1390 exc GST
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Why study this course

Familiarise yourself with project management knowledge and skills that can be used for any project. You will examine how project management impacts all levels of the organisation in terms of planning, delivery, scheduling, controlling, customer service, interface knowledge, techniques, and skills.

This course is based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) guidelines.

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Get started with project management fundamentals

  • Identify organisational influences and project life cycle

  • Work with project management processes

  • Initiate a project

  • Plan a project

  • Plan for project time management

  • Plan project budget, quality, and communications

  • Plan for risk, procurements, and stakeholder management

  • Execute a project

  • Manage project work, scope, schedules, and cost

  • Control and close a project


Project Management Institute

PMBOK at Lumify Work

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is one of the world’s largest not-for-profit membership associations for the project management profession. PMI’s professional resources and research empower more than 700,000 members, credential holders and volunteers in nearly every country in the world to enhance their careers, improve their organisation’s success and further mature the profession.

Lumify Work is an authorised training partner of the PMI offering PMBOK training and certification in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.


Who is the course for?

Anyone (managers, technical specialists, and project team members) who needs a solid foundation in understanding professional project management techniques.


Course subjects

Getting Started with Project Management

  • Understanding the components of project management

Project Management and the Organisation

  • Identifying organisational influences, project stakeholders and governance

  • An overview of the project life cycle

Working with Project Management Processes

  • Project management processes and knowledge areas

  • Identify project information

Initiating a Project

  • Develop a project charter

  • Identify project stakeholders

Planning a Project

  • Develop a project management plan

  • Plan scope management

  • Collect project requirements

  • Define project scope

Planning for Project Time Management

  • Plan schedule management

  • Define and sequence project activities

  • Estimate activity resources and duration

  • Develop a project schedule

Planning Project Budget, Quality, and Communications

  • Plan project cost management

  • Plan quality management

  • Plan human resource management

  • Plan communications management

  • Planning for risk, procurements, and stakeholder management

Plan Risk Management

  • Identify risks

  • Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis

  • Plan for risk response

  • Plan project procurements

  • Plan stakeholder management

Executing a Project

  • Direct and manage project work

  • Perform quality assurance

  • Acquire, develop and manage your project team

  • Manage communications

  • Conduct procurements

  • Manage stakeholder engagement

Managing Project Work, Scope, Schedules, and Cost

  • Monitor and control project work

  • Perform integrated change control

  • Validate project scope

  • Control project scope, schedule and costs

Controlling the Project

  • Control project quality, communications, project risks, project procurements and stakeholder engagement

Closing a Project

  • Close project or phase


Prerequisites

None


Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.


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