Project Management Learning Objectives
Foundations for Healthcare Course
- Advocate for a proper project initiation process, including the creation of a Project Charter and the clear definition of project scope
- Apply tools for identifying, organizing and estimating the project work
- Deal with Project Risk and apply Risk Mitigation strategies to safeguard the project
- Identify and include the work needed to account for Risk and resolve Assumptions
- Appreciate the demands of managing project resources and the implications of different project team structures on resource assignments and scheduling
- Delegate work, motivate and facilitate professional and personal growth for the Project Team
- Develop a realistic and defensible Project Schedule, that incorporates the work, work estimates and estimate loading factors
- Effectively negotiate with Project Stakeholders about everything, throughout the project
- Understand and employ Product Scope and Quality Management
- Implement a Change Management and Reporting Plan
- Communicate effectively with all Stakeholders
- Track and Report the status of the project and deliverables, for early problem identification and resolution
- Apply project closing processes and close the project properly
- Understand the use of project software tools to help plan, schedule and track the project
Beyond Foundations Course
- Identify the Stakeholders involved in the creation of Business Requirements and understand their role in the requirements project
- Understand the origins of Agile and the needs it was born to fulfill.
- Understand the value and influence of the origins of Agile methodologies
- Select the appropriate project methodology (Waterfall, Incremental, Agile or a hybrid) depending on the project’s level of maturity and amount of changing requirements and changing technologies
- Understand the concepts of Business Case, Business Requirements and Functional Specifications (Solutions Requirements)
- Apply a framework for producing Business Requirements for new and/or improved products, services, and processes
- Understand how to apply several tools for creating Business Requirements, e.g., Elicitation Methods, Cross-functional Process Mapping, Fishbone (Ishikawa, Cause and Effect Diagrams), MuSCoW Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Pareto Analysis, ROI, etc.
- Use tools to capture and analyze the “current-state” (as-is), identify potential problem and opportunity areas, identify disconnects, and perform gap-analysis to develop the business requirements of potential “end-states” (“to-be” states)
- Understand and address the impact of change on the people, and how this affects the business requirements process.
- Understand process control and the important difference between Defined and Empirical Process Control.
- Apply Agile Values and Principles to project management.
- Understand the framework of the popular Agile practices of Scrum and Kanban
- Apply Agile methodologies to gathering Business Requirements that express the real needs of the customer (iterative planning, user stories, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog)
- Apply Agile methodologies to estimate the project work with accuracy, while managing risk and focusing on quality.
- Understand the principles of tracking and control in Agile projects.
