Overview of Basic Concepts and Terminologies of Project Management and Project Planning

Introduction and Basics of Project Management and Project Planning

• Evaluate the reasons why projects fail and how we have gone about it
• Basics of defining the project, planning the project, implementing the plan and completing the project.
• The project management processes of initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing.
• Systems Management approach to Project Management.
• Approach to Project Management in inputs, processes and outputs.
• The S.M.A.R.T. Way of Scope Definition.
• Review and analysis of Project Management, projects and programs.
• Project Management analyzed as a science and as an art.
• Application of the basic tools and the secret of getting things done through people.
• Scope and strategy in definition,

Introduction and Basics of Project Management and Project Planning

• Evaluate the reasons why projects fail and how we have gone about it
• Basics of defining the project, planning the project, implementing the plan and completing the project.
• The project management processes of initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing.
• Systems Management approach to Project Management.
• Approach to Project Management in inputs, processes and outputs.
• The S.M.A.R.T. Way of Scope Definition.
• Review and analysis of Project Management, projects and programs.
• Project Management analyzed as a science and as an art.
• Application of the basic tools and the secret of getting things done through people.
• Scope and strategy in definition, brainstorming, analyses, and project objectives.
• Review the steps to get started in projects and project planning basics.

Analysis of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Areas in Telecoms Project Management in terms of Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Communications Management, Human Resources Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management and Stakeholder Management.

• Integration Management in terms of Project Plan development, execution and change control.
• Scope Management from initiation, planning, definition, verification and change control.
• Time Management in terms of activity definition, sequencing, duration estimating, schedule development and control.
• Cost Management in resource planning, estimating, budgeting and control.
• Quality Management planning, assurance and control.
• Human Resources Management organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.
• Communications Management planning, information distribution, performance reporting and administrative closure.
• Risk Management planning, identification, qualitative, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, monitoring and control.
• Procurement Management planning, solicitation planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration and contract closeout.
• Stakeholder Management Identification, planning, Managing, controlling, understanding the stakeholders and emotional Intelligence.

Analysis of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Principles in Telecoms Project Management

• Value and Value Delivery System
• Project Management Environment and Lifecycle
• 12 Project Management Principles – Stewardship, Team, Stakeholder, Value, System Thinking, Leadership, Tailoring, Quality, Complexity, Risk, Adaptability & Resilience and Change.
• Project Performance Domains – Stakeholder, Team, Development Approach & Life Cycle, Planning, Project work, Delivery, Measurement and Uncertainty.
• Tailoring in Project Management

Telecoms Project Management Organizations and Project Management Office (PMO)

• Project Organization
• Organizational Structures
• PMO and Business Needs
• PMO and the operational Efficiencies
• Process and Procedure execution

Team Leadership and Management

• Leadership of IT Projects
• Developing a Vocabulary and a Project Strategy
• Budgeting, Estimating and Scheduling
• Communication in Team
• Management Reporting

Organization’s Performance with Project Auditing

• Managing the Audits
• Ensuring Projects’ alignment with Strategic Goals
• Projects’ SWOT Analysis
• Project Risks
• Project Health Check
• Effective and Feasible Project Tracking Plan

Agile Methodology in Telecommunications Project Management

• Scrum, XP, Kanban, and other Agile Methodologies
• Sprint

Analysis and application of Telecoms Project Management with an interactive session on a Cellular Roll-out Management and Roll-out Planning Basics.

• Roll-out project management consisting of the network planning, transmission planning, site acquisition, civil works construction, telecoms implementation in terms of the Fiber optic link layout, gNB (5G) Installation and Dimensioning, Installation of new EPCs in Mixed vendor environment for 5G migration.
• Project management scheduling, forecasting, roll-out plan and reporting to control the progress of the roll-out from the start of the surveys, planning and site acquisitions, civil work and tower constructions, to the actual integration and putting the site on-air of the sites.
• The course will end with simply exercise on roll-out planning as well as Lessons Learned session that each individual has achieved during the course. A summary review with the important pointers of being a very successful Telecoms Project Manager in Cellular Roll-out Management.