1.0 Project Management Overview
1.1 What is a Project?
Definition
Project v Business as usual
Examples of Projects
1.2 What is Project Management?
Definition
Examples of managed projects
Project v Program v Portfolio
Why is Project Management important?
1.3 Where do projects come from?
Company Goals
Strategic Direction
Strategic Planning
e.g. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities
and Threats (SWOT)
Project Selection
Opportunity
Improvement
Directive/Mandated
Financial Analysis
e.g. Return on investment (ROI), Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
Authority to Proceed
Feasibility
Prototyping
Pilot program
Just do it (JDI)
1.4 Project Management methodologies
Definition
e.g. Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban
By industry
e.g. Business, Technologies, Construction
1.5 Project Management Glossary of Terms
e.g. Project Charter
Business Case
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Milestone
etc, etc,