The Introduction provides key fundamentals of project management. You'll discover the basic facts of project management and its successful implementation, the project sponsor, the life cycle phases, and the main skills and expectations of project managers.
Project Integration Management focuses on the importance of having project managers work across the organizational boundaries in order to be successful.
Project Scope Management establishes the foundation of how to systematically identify the key deliverables of the project. After establishing a scope baseline, it is crucial to ensure that there will be a process for managing change.
Project Time Management builds on the deliverables identified in the scope definition process. The project manager breaks these deliverables down further and then develops the project schedule.
Project Cost Management covers establishing a project budget and understanding the different mechanisms used to estimate the cost of a given project.
Project Quality Management ensures there is a plan for managing, assuring, and controlling the project's quality.
Project Human Resources Management addresses the essential staffing and leadership issues for the project team.
Project Communications Management helps participants understand project team communications issues and how to build consensus among various project groups.
Project Risk Management is a critical area, which enables participants to comprehend what is needed in identifying risk events, analyzing them, and strategies for handling them.
Project Procurement Management covers the essentials of procurement decisions, contract administration and closure principles.
Professional Responsibility section outlines the behavioral and ethical aspects of professional project managers. This section enables project managers to exercise the proper judgment in their decision-making process.