PM Fundamentals®

What is Project Management? How is it accomplished? What does it typically include?

This two (2)-Day course provides answers to these questions and much more. Students gain an introduction to the project management arena and insight into foundational concepts of managing successful projects.

There are NO pre-requisites for this course. This Project Management Fundamentals text uncovers eight key areas where “Alphas” stand apart. This source builds upon a landmark study of more than 800 project managers from around the world to highlight the traits that make them stand out in the minds of their teams, senior managers, customers, and stakeholders. Included also with this course are the supplemental Student Workbook, Learning Journal, and Lessons from Top Project Managers. The entire curriculum is designed to provide the essential foundation of project management enabling participants to manage projects seamlessly and effectively.

Learn about project constraints. Understanding and balancing project constraints can make all the difference in achieving successful project outcomes. The relationship between the factors impacting these constraints are tightly knit and such that if one of these factors changes, it may likely impact one or more other constraints. For instance, if the project schedule is shortened, the project budget may need to be increased to add more resources to complete the same amount of work in less time. The specific project, however, will influence constraints. A fore into the vast world of project management to master these key concepts will afford the foundation needed to successfully navigate any number of project scenarios.

This Project Management Fundamentals course teaches the key concepts needed to deliver projects on time, within scope, and within budget—the goal of every successful endeavor.

Participants will learn the tools and techniques for managing projects. A strong knowledge base, performance, and personal effectiveness are complements to the foundational concepts taught in this course. Participants will also learn how a project is initiated, how to plan, execute, monitor and control, and successfully close a project.

REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE

Our instructors are highly skilled and experienced resources with extensive management across the Project Management Knowledge Areas.

Each are able to provide tools, best practices, and tips to help inform business process improvement activities and to enhance day-to-day decision-making.

Participants will learn the following:

• Project Basics: Explore the Construct of a Project from Initiation to Close
• Project Scope: Understand and Manage Work Requirements for Successful Project Completion
• Project Schedules & Resources: Define and Sequence Activities and Estimate Resources
• Project Budget: Describe the Processes Involved in Planning, Estimating, Budgeting, and Controlling Costs
• Project Risk: Investigate the ‘Wonderful World of “IF”‘
• Project Communications: Identify the Processes Involved in Timely and Appropriate Communications
• Project Leadership: Calling All Influencers, Negotiators, and Coaches

✓ You must attend your Project Management Fundamentals class for the full duration.

✓ You must complete all assigned practice exams and quizzes in your student portal to receive your Certificate of Completion (COC).

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Hardware Requirements:
  • This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook with strong internet service and computer audio and video capabilities.
• Software Requirements:
  • PC: Windows 10 or later
  • Mac: macOS 10.10 or later
  • Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
  • Microsoft.com for Microsoft Word
  • Adobe.com for Adobe Reader
    • Software must be fully installed and operational PRIOR to course start.
• Other:
  • Email capabilities and access to a personal email account

INTERNATIONAL PHONE NUMBERS PROVIDED

• International dial-in numbers provided for over 50 countries.
• Alternatively, students can join using Voice Over IP (VOIP)

1. Medium: This class will be taught via Zoom. Zoom has established a list of Global Access Numbers which will be provided to students upon registration. Voice Over IP (VOIP) is also available. Baskin Advisory Group, LLC (known hereafter as BAG, LLC) is not responsible for telephone toll or data charges that may be incurred by participants while connected to web or phone conferencing services.

2. Electronic Communications: BAG will communicate with participants electronically, via email from connect@baskinadvisorygroup.com. To ensure receipt of related communications, participants are responsible for adding the email domain of BAG, LLC to its list of safe senders and for inspecting spam folders to retrieve communications which may be sent by BAG, LLC.

3. Training Materials: All training materials ship from the United States. For international shipments, buyer is responsible for import fees and duties which may be levied by the country of destination at the time of receipt. BAG, LLC will transmit shipping address, electronically to the shipper, exactly as entered on the customer registration form. BAG, LLC cannot ship packages to a P. O. Box. Customer is responsible for providing a physical shippping address, at the time of registration, which is valid and deliverable. Customer accepts responsibility for taking delivery of packages at the address provided by the customer at the time of registration. Customer assumes responsibility for expenses related to training materials that must be replaced or reshipped due to incorrect or undeliverable shipping address provided by the customer at the time of registration. BAG, LLC will notify participant via email when package ships, and upon receipt of delivery notification from shipper. Customer assumes full responsibility for expenses related to training materials that must be replaced or reshipped if training materials are not reported as missing, or undeliverable by the customer and/or participant within three (3) business days of electronic delivery notification sent by BAG, LLC to customer.

4. Cancellations/Refunds: Requests for cancellations, refunds, transfers, and substitutions, must be submitted via email to connect@baskinadvisorygroup.com. Cancellation requests received by BAG, LLC within 30 calendar days from date of purchase AND not after 30 calendar days prior to the start date of the class for which the participant/customer was originally registered, will receive a full refund, minus the cost of training materials—$250 for the Project Management Fundamentals Student Workbook and Alpha Project Managers text book, if those materials have been shipped. Cancellation requests received greater than 30 days after date of purchase OR after 30 days prior to the start date of the class for which the participant/customer was originally registered are non-refundable.

5. Transfers: If space is available, BAG, LLC is happy to accommodate requests to transfer students between classes of the same type. In the event the training materials that are required for the originally scheduled class becomes obsolete, then a student/customer may purchase new training materials from BAG, LLC which are compatible with the new class. BAG, LLC does NOT accept returns, issue refunds or exchanges for obsolete training materials, or for training materials which have been shipped to the student/customer.

6. Substitutions: BAG, LLC is pleased to accommodate requests to subsitute the registration of one student for the registration of another student, in the same class. Training materials are personalized and licensed to the individual student. Therefore, training materials are non-transferable. Upon substitution, a fee of $250 will be assessed to the buyer to cover the cost of issuing new training materials to the new student.

ABOUT BASKIN ADVISORY GROUP, LLC.

BAG, LLC provides management consulting services, and professional and management development training for a wide spectrum of learning from those seeking initial development of an internal project management framework and standardized project portfolio execution to those seeking PMI-specific certification exam preparation. These include Project Management Fundamentals, CAPM, PMP, PMI-ACP and Microsoft Project training from Certified PMP’s and Certified SCRUM Masters.

BAG, LLC offers Microsoft Project (MS Project) Training courses as a complement to project management courseware offerings illustrative of key components of time, cost, scope—the “Iron Triangle”.

Register today to attend one of our upcoming project management and/or MS Project trainings and open the door to a world of possibilities as a project professional.