Course on ‘PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PMI of PMBOOK and Scrum’

Course on ‘PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PMI of PMBOOK and Scrum’ organised by the URJC

14, 17 and 18 October

Online format

The Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) as a partner of EULiST invites two members of the EULiST Alliance per university to participate in the three-day (16 hours) online PMI course. This training is of great interest to project managers as PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge and is a process-based project management methodology (actually a framework, but more on that later) developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI). It is a collection of project management processes, best practices, terminologies, guidelines and tools that are accepted as standard within project management and is the most popular certification.

The course consists of 30% theory, explaining the principles, processes, best practices, tools and techniques. The remaining 70% will be practical, applied to real projects by teams of 3 or 4 participants. In this way, the course objectives will be covered:

• Master basic project management skills, concepts and techniques.
• Link project goals and objectives to clear and compelling stakeholder needs.
• Apply different planning methods (schedules, dashboards, curves, …).
• Set realistic and measurable objectives and ensure positive results.
• Define and estimate project deliverables or MVPs, costs and schedules using simple and proven participative techniques.
• Set up a reliable project monitoring and tracking system.

OTHER INFORMATION:

The course is free of charge and takes place online according to the following schedule:

• Monday 14/10: from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00
• Thursday 17/10: from 9:00 to 13:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00
• Friday 18/10: from 9:00 to 13:00

Please contact your local EULiST coordinator before 3 October if you are interested in participating.

PROGRAM:

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• What is a project?
• Main fails and problems in project management.
• Triangle: Scope, Schedule, Costs
• Generic Project life cycle
• Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches
• Project life cycle at URJC
• The roles and responsibilities: PM, PO, SM, DT

PROJECT INITIATION

• Business Case – Canvas model – metrics and KPIs.
• Stakeholders and main roles.
• Collecting requirements histories.
• Formation of the project team.

PROJECT PLANNING

• Planning ceremonies in agile and waterfall approaches.
• Scope Planning: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS/WBS) vs User Stories (backlog).
• Schedule Planning: Schedule and Scrum / Kanban Boards.
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Planning of human and material resources.
• Cost estimates: effort hours, S curves, burn curves, story points.
• Risk Planning: identification, preventive actions, and contingency.
• Quality Planning.
• Communication Planning.
• Integration

PROJECT EXECUTION / DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL

• Coordination and improvement ceremonies in agile approaches.
• Daily/weekly follow-up meetings.
• Monthly reporting meetings / demonstrations.
• Monitoring and control activities in traditional methodologies.
• Use of S curves and burning curves to control the project.
• Other simple control metrics.
• Continuous replanning, deviations, and corrective actions.
• Change Management in agile and waterfall.
• Knowledge management throughout the project.
• Exchange of information and lessons learned, sprint retrospectives.

PROJECT CLOSURE

• Closing ceremonies in agile and waterfall approaches.
• Challenges during the closure.
• Final acceptance by the customer / users.
• Handover to operation / production.
• Project retrospective, lessons learned and process improvements.