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Project Management Essentials

Defining & Managing Project Success

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The Project Management Essentials Course gives professionals entering or developing within project management roles a comprehensive, practically intensive foundation in project management — covering initiation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, quality, risk management, communications, and project closure across five structured days of instruction and hands-on exercises.

Project management capability is built through structured knowledge and repeated practice, not just experience. This course provides both — combining project management best practice frameworks with practical exercises on every topic, from writing SMART objectives and project charters through creating WBS structures, network diagrams, schedule development, resource planning, risk assessment, and lessons learned documentation.

What distinguishes this course is the volume and quality of practical application built into every day. Delegates do not just learn project management concepts they practice them. Every core technique is followed by a structured exercise that builds the hands-on confidence and practical skill that professional project delivery requires.

The Project Management Essentials Course is built for professionals who want a rigorous, practically grounded introduction to project management one that delivers real, immediately applicable competence across the full project lifecycle.

 

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Course Goals

What are the Goals?

The Project Management Essentials Course is designed to develop practical project management capability across initiation, planning, scheduling, cost management, quality, risk, communications, and project closure.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain project management fundamentals, lifecycle definitions, and best practice principles and apply SMART objectives and project selection criteria
  • Develop project charters, collect requirements, define scope, and create Work Breakdown Structures
  • Write structured scope statements and develop project documentation for senior management sign-off
  • Develop realistic project schedules including dependency management, duration estimation, and network diagramming
  • Apply analogous, parametric, and three-point estimating techniques to project cost and duration estimation
  • Define and manage project KPIs and metrics, develop resource and communication plans, and manage virtual teams
  • Identify, assess, and plan responses to project risks and manage project contracts against project constraints
  • Apply project software for project tracking and manage common project management challenges
  • Apply project management leadership, communication, and meeting best practices to project execution
  • Close projects effectively including administration, hand-offs, documentation updates, and structured lessons learned

Who is this Training Course for?

The Project Management Essentials Course is designed for professionals who are new to project management or who have project management responsibilities without formal training — and who want a comprehensive, practically intensive foundation across the full project management lifecycle.

This course is suitable for:

  • Professionals taking on project management responsibilities for the first time who need a structured, comprehensive foundation
  • Technical professionals and engineers who manage projects alongside functional responsibilities
  • Business analysts, administrators, and coordinators who contribute to project delivery and want stronger project management knowledge
  • Team leaders and supervisors responsible for small to medium project delivery within their functional areas
  • Operations and support professionals who need to understand project management processes, documentation, and governance
  • Professionals preparing for formal project management certification who want a strong practical foundation
  • Graduate and early-career professionals entering roles with project delivery responsibilities
  • Any professional who manages projects informally and wants to formalise and strengthen their approach
Learning Approach

How will this Training Course be Presented?

The Project Management Essentials Course is delivered through a structured, exercise-driven learning approach where practical application is embedded into every topic. The course moves progressively from project initiation and planning through scheduling, risk management, communications, and closure — with multiple hands-on exercises each day to ensure delegates develop real, applicable project management competence alongside conceptual understanding.

Every major concept is followed immediately by a practical exercise, creating a learn-and-apply rhythm that builds confidence and skill simultaneously across the full five days.

Delivery methods include:

  • Instructor-led sessions covering project management fundamentals, planning processes, scheduling, risk, communications, and closure
  • SMART objectives and project selection exercises applying initiation techniques to real project scenarios
  • Project charter writing exercises developing formal project authorisation documentation
  • Requirements gathering and WBS creation exercises applying scope definition and decomposition techniques
  • Lessons learned documentation exercise applying structured project closure and knowledge capture disciplines

The Course Content

Project Management Basics, History, Benefits and Components

  • Understanding what project management is
  • Defining project and product life cycles
  • Understanding Best Practice Project Management
  • How to Initiate a Project: How to do it
  • Managing the project selection process
  • Writing SMART objectives and business cases

Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives

Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises

Project Planning, Charters, Work Breakdown Structures and Scope Statements

  • Developing the project documentation for senior management sign-offs
  • Defining the project management
  • Understand how to collect requirements
  • Defining the full project scope
  • Creating and analysing the project with Work Breakdown Structures

Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter

Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements

Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure

Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement

Creating and Managing the Project Schedule and Budget

  • Understanding what a realistic schedule is
  • Defining and managing dependencies
  • How to estimate project durations and costs
  • Creating and optimising the project schedule
  • Presenting your schedule and resource constraints
  • How to control the cost, schedule and resources

Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice

Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations

Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating

Planning for Quality, HR, Communications, Risk and Procurement

  • Defining and controlling project KPI’s / Metrics
  • Presenting and defining the project resource plan
  • Developing a communication plan
  • Managing Virtual Teams
  • Understanding and reviewing project risk
  • Managing the project contract against project constraints

Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics

Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting

Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise

Working, Controlling and Closing the Project

  • Using project software to track projects
  • Dealing with project management problems
  • Project case reviews and discussion
  • Project Management leadership, communications and meetings best practices
  • Closing the project including project administration, hand-offs, document updates, and lessons learned
  • Lessons learned, why, when and what

Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned

Recognition

Certificate

  • • Wallstreet Development Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course.
Qualifications & Endorsements

Accreditation

PMI

Wallstreet Development Academy is an official PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP). All applicable project management courses are pre-approved by the Project Management Institute, allowing participants to earn the necessary PDUs and Contact Hours for certification and recertification.

Collaborations

In Partnership With

Anderson Copex Coventry