NICF059: PROJECT MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS (SF) (SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS (SF) (SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING)
Course Duration
Mode of Assessment
Students will be required to complete an online assessment during class.
Who Should Attend
Individuals who require a fundamental understanding of Project Management approaches and how it may be used to enhance the quality of a project.
All are welcome to attend this course, regardless of experience in project management.
Course Overview
NTUC LearningHub Course Code: NICF059
TPGateway Code: TGS-2020504155 (VLC)
This course is designed in such a way that participants will learn the leading best practices from Project Management Institute (PMI, USA), AXELOS (UK), Agile Manifesto, Scrum and eXtreme Programming models. This course will give participants the basic understanding of what is a project, what are basic elements of project, and how to manage the project in a much practical way.
Courses Schedule
Next available schedule
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Gain a fundamental level of understanding on what a project is
- Understand the key considerations of a project
- Manage a task as a project, with appropriate level of planning
- Foresee the risks and challenges and ways to overcome those with as minimum impact as possible
- Understand the key characteristics of traditional and Agile project management approaches
Pre-requisites
- Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Be able to speak, listen, read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to the Employability Skills Workforce Skills Qualification (ES WSQ) Workplace Literacy (WPL) Level 6
- Well versed in all Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Hardware & Software
This course will be conducted as a Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom platform. Participants must have a laptop or a desktop with “Zoom Client for Meetings” installed. This can be downloaded from https://zoom.us/download
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Minimum Specs |
Recommended Specs |
Processor / CPU |
1.6 GHz or faster, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent |
1.8 GHz, 2-core Intel Core i3 or equivalent |
Memory |
4 GB RAM |
8 GB RAM |
Hard Disk |
10 GB available storage space |
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Display |
1280 x 768 screen resolution |
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Graphics |
2GB Graphics Card |
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Course Outline
Part-1 (Online Learning: approximately 5 Hours)
Participants will be given account access to our Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). Participants are required to complete the e-learning course and 2 quizzes before they can proceed to attend the remaining 2-day instructor-led classroom/virtual training.
Part-2 (Instructor-led Virtual Training: 16 Hours)
- Introduction to Project Management
- Define Project
- Differentiate operational work from Project work
- Program and portfolio definition
- Introduction to Project Management Methodologies
- Waterfall
- PMI
- PRINCE2
- Agile
- Role of a Project Manager
- PM Sphere of influence
- PM competencies
- Key role of project integration
- Charter / Brief
- Definition
- Importance
- Contents
- Requirements
- Define the scope in Agile environment
– Backlog
- Define the scope in a non-agile environment
– WBS
- Document the requirements for clarity
- Create a mind-map and affinity diagram
- Populate the Kanban
- Scheduling
- Granularity of the tasks
- Dependency determination
- Introduction to PERT / CPM
- Scheduling
- Plotting in a tool
- Tracking mechanism
- Cost
- Concepts, Trends & Emerging Practices
- Plan cost management
- Estimate costs
- Resources
- Manpower
- Machinery
- Materials
- Money
- Project Management Tools
- Stakeholder
- Definition
- Importance
- Classification
- Identification
- Risks
- Identification
- Qualify and quantify the risks
- Responses for risks
- Mitigation plans
- Quality
- Level of quality needs
- Cost of quality
- Procurement
- Decision to outsource
- Contract types
- Considerations
- Tracking the project
- Earned value management
- Forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Trend analysis
- PM Tool
- The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes
Certificate Obtained and Conferred by
- Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub
Upon meeting 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from NTUC LearningHub.
- Statement of Attainment from SkillsFuture Singapore
Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Statement of Attainment from SkillsFuture Singapore to certify that the participant has achieved the following Competency Standard(s):
• Programme Management (ICT-PMT-3002-1.1)
Fees and Funding
Medium of Instruction: English
Trainer: Trainee Ratio is 1:30
Mode of Delivery: Virtual Live Class (VLC) via Zoom
As this is a government subsidised programme, the entire training programme will be video recorded for audit purposes by the relevant funding agency. To ascertain their presence, Trainees / Participants are required to
- Turn on web camera to show real-time video, as opposed to using a profile picture / video (jpg/jpeg, gif or png image file) for the entirety of the training and assessment session.
- Ensure that their faces are fully visible (not just the forehead / eyebrows)
- Use their full name as per NRIC / Passport as their Screen Name on Zoom
Courseware:
1. E-learning on Canvas
2. Learner’s Resources on Canvas
Price:
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Individual Sponsored |
Company Sponsored |
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w/o GST |
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Non-SME |
SME |
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w/o GST |
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Original Course Fee |
$980.00 |
$1,048.60 |
$980.00 |
$1,048.60 |
$980.00 |
$1,048.60 |
Singapore Citizens & PRs aged 21 years and above |
$665.00 |
$733.60 |
$665.00 |
$733.60 |
$98.00 |
$166.60 |
Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above |
$98.00 |
$166.60 |
$98.00 |
$166.60 |
$98.00 |
$166.60 |
Remarks:
Individual Sponsored
- Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding
- Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding
- NTUC Members can enjoy up to 50% funding (capped at $250 per year) under Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP).
- Please be informed that UTAP Funding is available to fund course fee only. Exam fee is not fundable by UTAP.
Company Sponsored
- Absentee Payroll claimable by SMEs: Up to 80% of hourly basic salary capped at $7.50/hr
- Absentee Payroll claimable by Non-SMEs: Up to 80% of hourly basic salary capped at $4.50/hr
Terms and conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees.
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