Instructor-Led Courses

Project Management Fundamentals

This course provides you with the effective fundamentals of project management that consists of Initiating, Planning, Executing/Implementing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing. It is a known fact that many projects fail because they are performed by competent resources that are not trained to use the correct tools. On this course we would teach you the skills, concepts and principles you can use to make your project successful.

The following people can benefit from the course:

• Project team
• Project managers
• Project coordinators
• Entrepreneurs
• Top Executives [CEO , CFO , CTO , COO , Directors]
• Anyone in the technical team
• General and Administrative Managers
• Sales & Marketing professionals

Course Overview

• Project Management(PM) Overview
• The steps in the PM process
• Triple Constraint – Scope, Time, and Cost
• Project phases and important check points
• Practical approaches to project performance
• How to select appropriate projects
• Completing the project charter for acceptance by the high management
• Stakeholder requirements – Identify, describe and prioritize
• Defining quality requirements on the project
• Taking care of communication standards
• Establish change control on the project
• Defining and creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Assigning responsibilities on the project
• Managing Risk on a project – identifying and specifying responsibilities
• Estimating cost of resources – the team and equipment
• Creating and monitoring the project schedule
• Taking corrective action in case of schedule problems
• Managing the project on meetings, variance analysis, and monitoring performance of the project
• Delivering of project product and verification
• Carrying out administration closure and gathering lessons learned
• Closing the project

Project Management Professional (PMP) Preparation

OneStopProject has a well written book that embodies all the topics that will be addressed on the preparation course. The course can be taken in a conventional classroom environment online. The objectives of both courses are the same. This is an intensive course that will prepare future PMPs to take and pass the PMP certification exams. To take the exams, one has to meet the PMI PMP exams prerequisites that can be located at pmi.org.

Requirements to take the PMP exams

• 7500 hours of project management experience for a period of sixty months, if you do not have a degree.
• 4500 hours of project management experience for a period of over thirty-six hours for a degree holder. Minimum of 35 hours of project management classroom/eLearning training instructions.
• Complete and submit the PMP certification application directly to PMI.

To be awarded the PMP certification, you must pass the 4-hour computer-based 200-question exam. Passing the PMP exams it attests to one’s core knowledge and understanding of critical project management concepts, principles and techniques. The PMP credential sets individual project managers apart from the project managers without the credentials in the world.

The following people can benefit from the course:

• Project team
• Project managers
• Project coordinators
• Entrepreneurs
• Top Executives [CEO , CFO , CTO , COO , Directors]
• Anyone in the technical team
• General and Administrative Managers
• Sales & Marketing professionals

Course Overview

• What it takes to become a PMP?
• The necessary process involved in becoming a PMP.
• Project Management Context and Framework – This module consists of the key fundamentals of project management. It covers the sponsor, life cycles and the main skills and expectations of project managers.
• Project integration Management - This module consists of plan development, integration of various components of the project, execution, and integrated change control. This is to ensure that the various aspects of project management are properly coordinated in an integrated and cohesive fashion.
• Project Scope Management - This module consists of planning, definition, verification, and change control. This is to ensure that the project include all the the work and only the work required to ensure required to complete the project successfully.
• Project Time Management - This module consists of activity definition, sequencing, duration estimation, and schedule development and management. This is to ensure that the project is completed in a timely manner.
• Project Cost Management - This module consists of resource planning, cost estimating, budgeting and control. This is to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.
• Project Quality Management - This module consists of planning, assurance, and control. This is to ensure that the project will correctly satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Project Human Resource Management - This module consists of project organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development. This is to ensure that the resources on the project are utilized effectively employing the processes, tools and techniques.
• Project Communications Management - This module consists of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure. This is to ensure timely generation, collection, dissemination, storage and ultimate disposition material on the project electronically or manually.
• Project Risk Management - This module consists of risk management planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control. This is to ensure that risks are responded effectively.
• Project Procurement Management - This module consists of procurement planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract closeout. This is to ensure that appropriate processes, and tools & techniques to acquire the goods for the project scope are attained from outside the performing establishment.

Brief profile of the management team is as follows:

Srini Centhala, president and Founder : founded Absolut-e Data Com in 1999 to focus on building new concepts and build on-line application. Degree in Electronics Engineering, 16 years of IT industry experience.

Dr. Archie Addo, PMP, CEO : PhD in Computer Science, certified Project management professional with 19 years in IT and project management. He has successfully managed projects. Archies focus is the transformation of business needs into successful ventures through the use of proven project management tools and techniques. He is an experienced instructor, consultant and advisor, having done work in the U.S., UK and France. His experience expands 19 plus years in the interrelated disciplines of computer science, project management, procurement, organizational design and development, process engineering, quality management and project team facilitation. He has held numerous management positions including Software Development Manager, Consultant, and Senior Project Manager with responsibilities ranging from multi-discipline, multi-million dollar projects utilizing internal and external resources.

Muthu Shanmugam, CTO : MS in Control Engineering. Have 15 years of IT experience working on design and development of projects successfully.

Senthil Dhandapani, PMP, CFO : MS in Computer Science. Have 15 years of IT experience working on design and development of projects successfully.

Support Team : The support team comes with varied background. Each of the team members was hand picked. The team is dedicated and responsible to their work.

OneStopProject provides the following modes of studies

• Virtual Classroom This mode constantly have an instructor available to lead the group step by step.
• Traditional Classroom You will have to come to OneStopProject premises or select a place close to where you are, if a group is signing on.
• Online You take the course completely online is a well structured way. We realize some of you have a busy life.