PM Fundamentals:  24 Project Management Training Hours

Dates: Three Saturdays (6, 13, 20 June)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Times: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with one-hour lunch break

Regular Registration: $450 PMI Members; $600 non-members
 

For online seminar, take your time,  for six months from your registration date, $499 (24 PDUs).

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Instructor: Victoria Kumar, PMP - Past President, PMI North Carolina Chapter

Program Description

This course is designed to provide new project managers with a practical guide to applications, utilization and integration of project management processes. It also includes an introduction to PMI’s PMBOK® Guide -- the Project Management Framework, the Standard for Project Management, the five project management process groups and the nine project management knowledge areas.  It covers basic project management concepts, project life cycles, the evolution of project management as a profession, including historical aspects of project management as a knowledge-based profession. 

Project managers who are new to the project management profession or project management practitioners who are newly-assigned to manage projects will also learn, through the use of case studies and group exercises,  different approaches for developing project management strategies, for utilizing project management process inputs, tools, techniques and outputs in a project environment and for developing project management methodologies suitable for the project environment in their organization. 

Seminar Objectives

1. Learn the Standard for Project Management

2. Understand PMI’s project management framework, as defined in the PM BOK® Guide

3. Identify the nine project management knowledge areas and the five process groups

4. Discuss the evolution of the project management as a profession, including historical aspects of project management as a knowledge-based profession

5.  Develop a practical guide for developing project management strategies and for utilizing project management process inputs, tools, techniques and outputs in a project environment, including integration and mapping of the processes, process flow diagrams and symbols.

6.  Understand project management concepts and their applications in the project life cycle, including

• Project Charter

• Work Breakdown Structure

• Project Planning / Resource Planning / Communications Planning

• Roles and Responsibilities

• Risk Management / Change Management

• Quality Assurance / Quality Control

• Stakeholder Management

• Critical Path Method / Schedule Development

• Cost Estimating / Procurement Process

• Lessons Learned

• Status Reporting /  Issue Tracking

Project Management Training Materials

• The instructor will provide copies of the training hand-outs for participants.

• Participants will need a copy of the two required books. Books may be purchased from PMI and other bookstores.

  • Required books

    • Guide to PMBOK, Fourth Edition – Paperback ($50). CD is FREE with PMI Membership

• Recommended books may also be purchased by participants, as desired.

  • Recommended books

    • Project Management: Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling & Controlling by: Harold Kerzner - 8th edition (ISBN 0-471-22578-9) - $80

2009 Offering Dates and Location

Instructor Details

Victoria S. Kumar, MS, PMP

Victoria Kumar, PMP is a Past President of the North Carolina Chapter of the PMI. She co-founded that chapter’s PMO Local Interest Group. She is a graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute (class of 2004) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). She has been working as a project management practitioner for the last 20 years. She is currently a Project Manager at the State of North Carolina Office of the State Controller. She holds two master's degrees: one in Pure Mathematics, and another in Computer Science. She also has PhD credits in Management Science from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has earned a Master's certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University (USA). She is a frequent speaker at PMI global congress and at PMI Chapter Symposia. As a seminar leader for Project Management Leaders Training (http://www.pmleaderstraining.com), a PMI Registered Education Provider, she delivers project management seminars and online courses to PMI SeminarsWorld®, to PMI Components, and to project management communities globally.