Fundamentals of Project Management with MS Project Training conducted during November 2022 in Dar es Salam delivered by a PMP certified Risalat Consultants with years of practical experience in delivering capacity building programs on a wide range of topics in the field of project management. The program had more practical sessions which made the overall training to be delivered on basis of 30% theory and 70% practice.
The delegates came from GIZ Ethiopia, all the participants worked for various GIZ projects, each participant was required to select or design their own project from the very first day, and all practical sessions were based on the participant’s selected projects. The delegates were introduced to the best practices of planning and management of all aspects of a project by integrating MS Project. Simultaneously, they learned fundamental skills essential for engaging, communicating and interacting with stakeholders.
Major Topics Covered in the Program:
- Panorama general de la gestión de proyectos
- Grupos de procesos de la dirección de proyectos
- Funciones de los proyectos y de los directores de proyecto
- Ciclo de vida del proyecto y programación
- Project Stakeholder Analysis
- Power/Interest Grid
- Inicio y planificación del proyecto
- Plan de gestión del cronograma
- Entregables
- Estructura de desglose del trabajo (EDT)
- Medición del desempeño
- Estado del cronograma
- Análisis de impacto y variaciones
- Control de cambios
- Análisis de escenarios hipotéticos
- Compresión del cronograma
- Proyectos maestros
- Modelos de cronograma
- Creación de tareas
- Datos de entrada de las tareas
- Vinculación de tareas
- Método de la ruta crítica
- Rutas casi críticas
- Resource Planning Process
- Disponibilidad y análisis de recursos e impacto en el cronograma
- Conceptos de nivelación de recursos
- Ejecución del proyecto, línea de base y comunicaciones
- Plan de gestión de las comunicaciones
- Reuniones de revisión del cronograma
- Análisis presupuestario y control de costes
- Creating the project
- Informes del proyecto
During Fundamentals of Project Management with MS Project Training the practice was delivered in terms of the use of the Microsoft Project and in terms of mathematical equations within the topics that required some calculations. The topics without calculation were practiced directly in the software sessions. Some mathematical topics were covered through both live calculations and through the software.