How to Start a Project: Project Management Basics

Determining accurate and realistic baselines for scope, timeline, costs and quality

Set your project up for success. Proper planning dramatically increases your odds of meeting project objectives and coming in on time and under budget. In less than 3 hours we’ll give the tools to initiate a project successfully. We’ll show you how to set realistic objectives and accurate baselines for scope, timeline, costs and quality.

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• Identify key stakeholders and set their expectations about what the project will deliver
• Get consensus on a project requirements document to make sure you’re all on the same page before you get started
• Focus your team on project deliverables with a clearly defined project charter
• Create documentation to easily track and report on your project’s progress

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Learning Objective

• Facilitate a Project Start-up
• Set Clear Expectations with Stakeholders on a Project
• Explain Benefit to the Organization

Building the Foundation

• Define Key Project Management Terminology
• Explain the Triple Constraints
• Define the Business Case for a Project

Initiating the Project

• Explain How Projects Are Initiated
• Develop a Project Charter and a Product Requirements Document (PRD)

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