Program Planning


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
The planning phase in PMI's® PMBOK® is considered one of the most important phases; without a properly defined plan your projects have a much greater chance of not succeeding. This assumption can also be made for program management; however, with program management, an entire program can fail, which could include several projects. The cost and loss of benefits that are associated with a failed program could be devastating to your organization, making the proper program planning that much more important. This course will help you create your program plan by creating a Program Work Breakdown Structure (PWBS), and the program's schedule, cost, and quality plans. It will also examine the effects a program's human resources, communication, and purchase planning have on your program plan. This course is aligned to PMI's® The Standard for Program Management.

Target Audience
Those with intermediate to expert level knowledge of project management and the associated methodologies

Prerequisites
A good understanding of project management and its principles

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Program Planning

  • recognize the benefits of developing a program plan
  • identify the inputs and outputs of the Develop Program Management Plan process
  • assess interface management according to the five critical questions in a given scenario
  • recognize the steps required for effective transition and resource planning in a given scenario
  • classify contents of a PWBS in a given scenario
  • recognize the benefits of program schedule, cost, and quality planning
  • recognize how to effectively schedule, estimate, and budget for a program
  • plan for program quality in a given scenario
  • identify the inputs and outputs of human resource planning
  • recognize the inputs that are needed to develop a communication plan during the Communications Planning process
  • identify program-specific activities involved with risk management
  • identify how the Program Purchases and Acquisitions process relates to the Program Contracting process

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