Post Graduate Certification Program In Project Management (PGCPM)

* What Will I Learn:

1. Understand processes and terminology
2. The most up-to-date global practices for PM
3. Manage plan time resources for projects
4. Manage projects in terms of delivery
5. A clear understanding of - specifications, deliverables, and work breakdown
6. Project Integration Management
7. Project Scope Management
8. Project Time Management
9. Project Cost Management
10. Project Quality Management
11. Project Resource Management
12. Project Communication Management
13. Project Risk Management
14. Project Procurement Management

* Training Course Curriculum:

1. Integration management
2. Scope management
3. Time management
4. Cost management
5. Quality management
6. HR management
7. Communication management
8. Risk management
9. Procurement management
10. Stakeholder management

* Understanding the PMO framework:

1. OPM to PMO
2. OPM (organizational project management) framework
3. Portfolio, Program, Projects, and OPM
4. Aligning projects & strategy
5. Knowledge management, talent management & opm
6. OPM governance
7. OPM implementation & OPM ongoing operations
8. Overview & defining the PMO

* Assess PMO maturity, and culture and define an attainable PMO roadmap:

1. Assessing PPP (project, program, portfolio) domains.
2. Assessing OPM maturity.
3. Assessing organizational culture.
4. PMO best practices.
5. The evolution from project to portfolio
6. PPM in the strategic PMO

* PMO implementation path:

1. Combining OPM maturity best practices
2. The evolution from project to portfolio
3. Change management for PMO
4. A suitable organizational structure for the PMO
5. Processes, standards & methodologies
6. Role of the PMO in the maturity assessment process processes & standards
7. Types of PMOs:
8. Directive PMO's
9. Supportive PMO's
10. Controlling PMO's

* Project management methods/methodologies & PMO governance:

1. What are the elements of a sound OPM/PMO methodology
2. Project management best practices to create a methodology
3. Overview of predictive and empirical methods (agile vs traditional?
4. A governance framework

* Delivering business results via the PMO:

1. Business intelligence
2. Make trade-offs between many desirable opportunities
3. Estimation of resources and capacity against resource demand
4. A better understanding of project interdependence
5. Handling requests of Project and functional managers for more time, money, and resources
6. Evaluate the inherent value and risk of projects in the portfolio
7. A PMO dashboard

* PMO Strategy:

1. Developing the enterprise PMO
2. staffing the strategic PMO
3. Random Forests
4. Developing and maturing the enterprise PMO
5. Develop your PMO into an enterprise PMO
6. Success factors and failure points in developing a PMO
7. SVM
8. Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the strategic PMO
9. Identify the people
10. Define the processes
11. Making it happen

* Introduction to DevOps:

1. History of DevOps
2. What is DevOps?
3. DevOps Ecosystem
4. DevOps Objectives
5. DevOps Market Trends

* Challenges with Current IT Practices:

1. Development & Feedback Cycle
2. Innovation & Collaboration
3. Deployment Failures
4. Recovery & Rollback Time
5. Total Cost of Ownership
6. Process Inefficiencies

* DevOps Principles:

1. Understanding DevOps Guiding Principles
2. Importance of Collaborative Culture
3. Cross-Functional Team Structure
4. Automation

* Organizational Considerations for DevOps Adoption:

1. Embracing DevOps Mindset
2. Iterative Adoption
3. Business Goals

* Role of DevOps in Digital Transformation:

1. Understanding Digital Transformation
2. Why does digital transformation matter?
3. Importance of DevOps in Digital Transformation

* DevOps Culture:

1. Organizational Change
2. Breaking the Silos
3. Team Structure

* DevOps and Automation:

1. Version Control
2. Continuous Integration
3. Continuous Testing
4. Configuration Management
5. Continuous Deployment
6. Containerization
7. Continuous Monitoring

* DevOps and Other Processes:

1. ITSM
2. Agile
3. Scrum
4. Lean

* Agile Scrum Foundation - Introduction:

1. Introduction to Agile and Scrum Foundation Preview
2. Agenda Preview
3. Why Agile? Preview
4. Course Objectives
5. Target audience
6. Traditional Development
7. Problems with traditional software development
8. Usage of features in a system
9. Makings of a new approach
10. Agile Manifesto
11. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
12. Principles behind the Agile Manifesto Contd
13. Authors of the Agile Manifesto
14. Agile Project Management
15. Agile Project Management Life cycle
16. Agile Project Management Framework
17. APM Framework
18. What is Scrum?
19. Certified Scrum Master
20. Professional Scrum Master
21. PMI-ACP

* Agile Scrum Methodologies:

1. Agile methodologies
2. Agenda
3. Agile Methodologies
4. Crystal
5. Project Properties in Crystal
6. Samples of Crystal
7. Feature Driven Development
8. Roles in FDD
9. Processes in FDD
10. Project tracking in FDD
11. Project tracking methodology
12. FDD usage guidelines
13. Dynamic Systems Development Methodology DSDM
14. Planning in DSDM Atern
15. DSDM Principles and techniques
16. eXtreme Programming
17. XP Values
18. XP Practices
19. XP Benefits
20. Agile Unified Process
21. Agile Unified Process AUP
22. Agile Unified Process System Development
23. Scrum
24. Scrum Life cycle

* Scrum Roles:

1. Scrum Roles
2. Agenda
3. Stakeholders
4. Chicken and Pig roles
5. Management of stakeholders
6. Scrum life cycle
7. Product Owner
8. Product Owners role
9. Prioritization
10. Cost Benefit Analysis
11. Prioritization based on Value and Risk
12. Prioritizing requirements MoSCoW
13. Prioritizing requirements Kano model
14. Prioritizing requirements Relative weighting method
15. Scrum life cycle
16. Scrum Master
17. What does a Scrum Master Do
18. What the Scrum Master Should NOT do
19. Scrum life cycle
20. The team aka Developers
21. Building a Scrum team
22. Building empowered teams
23. Role of a Manager
24. Manager 2.0: A new role for a Manager
25. Some specialist roles you may want

* Agile Scrum Product Owner:

* Scrum Introduction:

1. Scrum concepts
2. Scrum Flow
3. Scrum framework
4. Scrum vocabulary
5. Principles of process control
6. Scrum work culture

* Introduction to Product management:

1. Strategic Functions
2. Product Management Terminology
3. Roles and Responsibilities
4. Strategic Analysis
5. Product Lifecycle
6. Product Adoption
7. Marketing Mix

* Product planning and development:

1. Agile methodology
2. Scrum product development
3. Sprint planning
4. Writing effective product requirements
5. Creating a product roadmap
6. Creating a sprint backlog, a product backlog, and user stories
7. Building a product requirement document

* Agile Product Delivery:

1. Roadmap
2. Release Plan
3. Backlog
4. Sprint
5. Epics
6. Features
7. User Stories
8. How to write effective agile requirements
9. Feature Slicing Techniques
10. User Story Writing
11. Best Practices

* Prioritization:

1. Prioritizing the product backlog
2. Meaning of mandatory
3. Prioritization decisions
4. Formal approaches to prioritizing
5. Sequence of work

* Market Segmentation and Personas:

1. User Persona
2. Buyer Persona
3. Techniques to create a persona
4. Lean persona
5. Best Practices
6. Market Needs
7. Product Requirements

* How to Design an MVP:

1. Design an MVP

* Product Market Fit:

1. Value Proposition
2. Customer Empathy

* Product Metrics that Matter in Fintech:

1. Web and Data Analytics
2. Use of AI and Augmented Reality

* Product Marketing:

1. Introduction to Go To Market(GTM) Strategy & its Components
2. Product - Market Fit
3. Product Pricing
4. Product Marketing & Sales Strategies
5. Product Launch Plan

* Agile Scrum Ceremonies:

1. Scrum Ceremonies
2. Agenda
3. Timeboxing
4. Advantages of time boxing
5. Release
6. A high-level view of a release
7. Sprints
8. Factors in selecting a Sprint duration
9. Intensity of work
10. No changes in a Sprint
11. Daily Scrum
12. Sprint Review
13. Also, check during a review
14. Sprint Retrospective
15. What is a Sprint Retrospective
16. Making retrospectives effective

* Scrum Artifacts:

1. Scrum Artifacts
2. Agenda
3. Product Backlog
4. Product release and sprint backlog
5. User story
6. Example user story format
7. Story card information
8. Multiple stories may be required to complete a feature
9. Epics
10. Writing good stories
11. Splitting user stories
12. Splitting user stories (big picture)
13. Splitting user stories (user experience)
14. Splitting user stories (Others)

* Scrum Best Practices:

1. Scrum Best Practices
2. Agenda
3. Refactoring
4. Pair programming
5. Continuous integration
6. Practices of continuous integration
7. Configuration management
8. Quality in Agile
9. Scrum Quality Home truths
10. Planning for a Sprint
11. Test-driven development
12. Advantages of TDD
13. Definition of Done
14. Quiz
15. End of this session

* Scrum Planning:

1. Scrum Planning
2. Agenda
3. Principles behind Agile planning
4. Iterations allow for mid-course corrections
5. Multiple levels of planning
6. Release planning
7. Steps to planning a release
8. Velocity
9. An example with a velocity equal to 14
10. Sprint planning
11. Velocity-driven sprint planning
12. Commitment-driven sprint planning
13. Find out how much time is available
14. For each story
15. Keep this in mind before finalizing the plan

* Scrum Estimation:

1. Scrum Estimation
2. Agenda
3. Principles behind Scrum estimation
4. Estimation techniques
5. Types of estimates
6. Uncertainty in estimates
7. Overestimation and underestimation
8. What contributes to the size
9. Measures of size
10. Ideal days
11. Converting ideal days to actual days
12. Story points
13. Story points example
14. Using story points
15. Comparing the approaches
16. Estimation techniques Planning poker
17. Planning poker an example
18. Planning poker tips
19. Advantages of planning poker
20. Affinity estimation
21. Affinity estimation process

* Monitoring Scrum Projects:

1. Monitoring Scrum Projects
2. Agenda
3. Definition Metrics
4. Types of metrics
5. Metrics do's and don'ts
6. Charts in Scrum
7. Burn-down chart: Iteration level
8. Burn-down chart Project level
9. Burn-down chart Bar style
10. Burn-up and Burn down-chart
11. Cumulative Flow Diagram
12. Parking lot diagram
13. Escaped defects found
14. Velocity chart
15. Progress Chart
16. Niko Niko calendar
17. Information radiators
18. Information radiators: Big visible chart

* Advanced Scrum Concepts:

1. Scrum Advanced
2. Agenda
3. Scrum on large projects
4. Look ahead planning Sample
5. Scrum of Scrum
6. Charts in Scrum
7. Product coordination teams
8. Scrum on maintenance projects
9. Distributed scrum teams
10. Best practices in the distributed scrum
11. Structure 1 Team in India PO in the US
12. Structure 2 Team split into two locations
13. People practices in distributed Scrum
14. Practices in the distributed scrum
15. Scrum Contracting
16. Fixed Price fixed scope
17. Scrum in fixed-price projects
18. Transitioning a team or project to Scrum

1. JiRA:

Jira is a powerful and flexible project management tool that is widely used by software development teams around the world. It can help teams stay organized, track progress, and deliver high-quality software on time.

Jira provides users with a centralized platform where they can create and assign projects, establish deadlines, monitor progress, and engage with other team members.

2. Microsoft Project Management App (MSP):

Another excellent powerful project management tool that helps teams to plan, track, and collaborate on projects from start to finish.

It provides a comprehensive suite of features and tools to help project managers and their teams stay organized and on track with their project tasks.

This app also provides a Gantt chart to help visualize project timelines, a task list to keep track of project tasks, and a resource management tool to ensure that projects are staffed properly.

Every learner must submit 4 case studies based on the themes mentioned below

The learner must present the case studies before the evaluation panel

Case study feedback discussion:

1. Case study 1 (Project portfolio management in the production industry - Bosch Diesel)
2. Case study 2 (Project portfolio management using Easy Project in finance - AXA Group Czech Republic and Slovakia)
3. Case study 3 (Smart Home solutions delivery improved by project management software - myComfort)
4. Case study 4 (Complete project life-cycle management in the banking sector - PPF Banka)
5. Case study 5 (Standardized Project Management in the IT Services Sector Seidor Consulting Case study)
6. Case Study 6 (Hospital El Pilar: Improving Patient Care with Disciplined Agile®)

Here are some guidelines and outlines that you can use for your project report submission:

* Project Report Guidelines:

1. Reports must be written in an easy-to-understand format.
2. Reports should include a summary of the project’s goals, objectives, and accomplishments.
3. Reports must clearly state the project’s expected outcomes and how they were met.
4. Reports should include a timeline of the project’s progress.
5. Reports should include an analysis of the project’s financial performance.
6. Reports should include any lessons learned during the project.
7. Reports should include any risks or issues encountered during the project.
8. Reports should include any recommendations for future projects.

* Project Report Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Project Overview
3. Goals and Objectives
4. Project Timeline
5. Financial Performance
6. Lessons Learned
7. Risks and Issues
8. Recommendations
9. Conclusion