Week 1: Introduction to Project Management

• What is a project? What distinguishes it from other ways to accomplish work?
• Distinguish a program from project
• Project Life Cycle
• Why is project management important?
• Challenges of project management; why projects fail; what is project success?
• Scope triangle - why hard to keep in balance

Week 2: Project Management Governance

• Project portfolio
• Need for and benefits of project portfolio management
• Link between strategy and PPM
• Project portfolio process - define & benefits
• Project management office: what is it? Responsibilities.
• Project Manager's context (stakeholders)
• Managing conflict
• Project management structures (functional project): define, advantages & disadvantages; implications for PMs