Project Management Professional Basics

ZEF's Project Management Professional Basics training is a practical programme of 3 months covering the project lifecycle, scope and work breakdown, scheduling, budgets, risk, stakeholders, Agile and Scrum, and reporting. You finish with a complete project plan capstone.

Benchmarked against the PMI CAPM exam content outline, the PMBOK Guide (7th edition) principles and the Scrum Guide.

• 9 modules
• 9 hands-on tasks

1. 1Project Lifecycle4 topics

   Topics

   • Projects, programmes and operations
   • Predictive, agile and hybrid approaches
   • Project roles
   • The project charter

   You Will Be Able To

   • Explain how projects are set up and run

   Hands-on

   • Write a project charter
2. 2Scope and WBS4 topics

   Topics

   • Requirements
   • Scope statements
   • Work breakdown structure
   • Scope control

   You Will Be Able To

   • Define scope and break work into packages

   Hands-on

   • Build a WBS for a real project
3. 3Scheduling4 topics

   Topics

   • Activities and dependencies
   • Critical path
   • Gantt charts
   • MS Project or similar

   You Will Be Able To

   • Build a realistic project schedule

   Hands-on

   • Create a schedule and find the critical path
4. 4Budget and Cost4 topics

   Topics

   • Estimating
   • Budgets
   • Earned value basics
   • Cost control

   You Will Be Able To

   • Estimate and track project costs

   Hands-on

   • Prepare and track a project budget
5. 5Risk Management4 topics

   Topics

   • Identifying risks
   • Probability and impact
   • Responses
   • Risk register

   You Will Be Able To

   • Manage project risks systematically

   Hands-on

   • Build a risk register
6. 6Stakeholders and Communication4 topics

   Topics

   • Stakeholder analysis
   • Communication plans
   • Managing expectations
   • Teamwork

   You Will Be Able To

   • Keep stakeholders informed and engaged

   Hands-on

   • Write a stakeholder and communication plan
7. 7Agile and Scrum4 topics

   Topics

   • Agile values
   • Scrum roles and events
   • Backlogs and sprints
   • Kanban

   You Will Be Able To

   • Run work in sprints with Scrum

   Hands-on

   • Run two mini sprints with a team
8. 8Reporting and Closure4 topics

   Topics

   • Status reports and dashboards
   • Change control
   • Lessons learned
   • Closing a project

   You Will Be Able To

   • Report progress and close projects properly

   Hands-on

   • Write status reports and a closure report
9. 9Capstone Plan2 topics

   Topics

   • Complete project plan
   • Presentation

   You Will Be Able To

   • Plan a project from start to finish

   Hands-on

   • Capstone: full project management plan

You produce a full project plan and present it to an assessor acting as a sponsor. Assessors check scope, schedule logic, risk thinking and communication. Your result is Competent or Not yet competent, with a chance to resubmit.

1. Assessment 1After modules 1–3
2. Assessment 2After modules 4–6
3. Final assessmentAfter all 9 modules, for your certificate

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