Advanced Project Management

ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The main objectives of this course are:
1. help students to take their project experience, knowledge, and

management abilities to higher levels that are aligned with the
knowledge areas of PMBOK.
2. learn how to operate in a leadership role by working on your specific

skills combined with the correct management methodology and tools.
3. help students to create real-world strategies so that the whole team

achieves better results.
4. Each student will be expected to produce and present a scope statement,

Gantt chart, stakeholder management plan, and budget and risk plan.
5. Student will be shown how to apply MS Project software in desiging

effective management tools
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completing this course, the participants should:
1. Learn and become familiar with advanced terminology, concepts, and

definitions
2. Gain an understanding of key project success and failure factors within
their workplace
3. Develop the mindset, key skills and processes to manage project teams
4. Be able to refine the project scope statement
5. Determine the approach for decomposing the work of the project to the
required level of detail
6. Be able to apply key project management system techniques and
formulate a Gantt chart, work- breakdown structure, and budget
7. Identify and solve problems when considering project alternatives and
making the correct choice
8. Work effectively with others when managing the implementation of a
project plan
9. Collect, evaluate, organize and critically assess information so that you
can develop a clear and workable project solution.
10.Learn how to thoroughly analyze the preliminary scope statement and all
other relevant inputs.
11.Communicate effectively when including components and completion
criteria into the Work Breakdown Structure dictionary
12.Use science and technology when documenting the decomposed work in
the Work Breakdown Structure format
COURSE CONTENTS:
Advanced project managing in context, concepts, and tools: The issues and
opportunities that trigger the demand for projects, The strategic context within
which projects are developed, The challenge of staying within scope, time
quality and resource constraints, The difference between projects and programs,
The essential Knowledge areas, Twelve steps to project Management success.
Project Team Management: Why do we need to have teams?, Why some teams
don’t work well together, Why certain teams are more effective, Differences in
leading, Team development stages, Assembling a project team, Team structures.
The Project Management Program Cycle: The main phases of a project, The
main processes within and between project phases, The management cycle from
a project planning viewpoint.
Project Initiation Phase: Problem analysis tools and techniques, Project

identification, project strategies, and project feasibility, Preparing the business
case, The Project Charter – conclusion of the Initiation Phase.
Project Definition Phase: Stakeholder identification and definition of roles,

Stakeholder Management, Prioritizing your stakeholders, Understanding your
stakeholders, Project Scope definition, Risk Management process and planning,
Organizational risks, and business risks.
Project Planning Phase: Setting project objectives, Identifying effective

strategies for success, Defining project activities/ the work breakdown
structure, Preparing a project schedule / the Gantt chart, Resources and Cost
Estimation, Budgeting and Cost Control,
The Project Implementation Phase: Project Monitoring, Steps for successful
project control, Supervision of human resources, Effective Conflict Management,
Time Management and goal setting, Monitoring Project Quality, Quality
materials, quality events, quality plan, quality control and quality assurance,
Procurement, Using external vendors and suppliers, Discovering better problem-
solving methods, Types of contracts, The tender process, Project Reporting and
project evaluation.
Project Closure: Rationale for closure, Steps for effective closure, Closure
Checklist, Documentation of results, project evaluation.
MS Projects: Overview of MS Projects, use of MS Projects, Use of software to fill

in a schedule of work, Produce a Gantt chart on MS Projects for presentation to
the group.
REFERENCES:
1. Harold Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning,

Scheduling, and controlling, Wiley, 9 edition 2005.
2. Larson, E.W. and Gray, C.F., Project management the managerial process,
Seventh Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2018.

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ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The main objectives of this course are:

1. help students to take their project experience, knowledge, and

2. learn how to operate in a leadership role by working on your specific

3. help students to create real-world strategies so that the whole team

4. Each student will be expected to produce and present a scope statement,

5. Student will be shown how to apply MS Project software in desiging

Upon completing this course, the participants should:

1. Learn and become familiar with advanced terminology, concepts, and

Project Initiation Phase: Problem analysis tools and techniques, Project

Project Definition Phase: Stakeholder identification and definition of roles,

Project Planning Phase: Setting project objectives, Identifying effective

MS Projects: Overview of MS Projects, use of MS Projects, Use of software to fill

1. Harold Kerzner, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning,

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