Description
Objectives
At the end of the training, the participants will be able to:
- gain a good understanding of project management, the methods and tools used to manage projects and how to ensure the success of a project.
Programme
Introduction to Project Management
- Project definition and characteristics
- Triple constraints and extended triple constraints
- Projects, programs and portfolios
- Project lifecycle
- Technical phases and management phases
- Lifecycle
- Technical phases and management phases
- Pre-project
- Planning
- Delivery
- Closure
- Key characteristics related to the lifecycle
- Key characteristics related to the lifecycle
Project Management
Pre-project
- Understanding the environment
- SWOT analysis and PEST(EL)
- Types of organization
- SWOT analysis and PEST(EL)
- Defining the prerequisites and analyzing project viability
- Project description (context, objectives, outcomes, scope and exclusions)
- Project justification (reasons, options, costs, benefits, risks, investment appraisal)
- Project product description (composition, derivation, quality expectations, acceptance criteria)
- Project description (context, objectives, outcomes, scope and exclusions)
- Setting up project organization
- Directing level (Project Board, Project Assurance, Change Authority)
- Managing level Project Manager, Project Support)
- Delivering level (Team Manager)
- Directing level (Project Board, Project Assurance, Change Authority)
Planning
- Macro-planning
- Establishing the baselines
- Establishing the baselines
- Scope (Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / Product Flow Diagram (PFD))
- Time (management stages, key decision points)
- Budget (S curve)
- Defining the project management approaches
- Defining the project management approaches
- Risk management
- Quality management
- Change management
- Configuration management
- Communication management
- HR management
- Procurement management
- Setting up the project controls
- Setting up the project controls
- Performance criteria
- Tolerances
- Levels of management
- Delegation and escalation mechanisms
- Different types of reports
- Micro-planning
- Estimation workload and duration
- Identifying dependencies
- Assigning resources
- Scheduling the tasks (Gantt chart, PERT)
- Identifying the critical path
- Identifying the ‘leads’ and the ‘lags’
- Estimation workload and duration
Delivery
- Assigning and monitoring work packages
- Monitoring and controlling the management stage
- Quality management (product descriptions, quality control)
- Change management
- Issue management
- Risk management
- Communication management
- HR management
- Procurement management
Closure
- Getting customer acceptance
- Handing over the project product
- Assessing project performance
- Closing the project
Target audience
People who manage or will manage projects and/or anyone who actively participates in projects.
Exam
At the end of the course, participants will receive an invitation by e-mail to take the online test (MCQ). They will have 48 hours to complete the online test and it should take one hour.
Proctoring is activated and participants must ensure that they are able to take the test on a computer with an active webcam.
NB: If the 48-hour deadline is not met, a penalty of €50 excluding VAT will be applied to receive a new invitation to take the test
Conditions
Course Material
Please note that for environmental reasons no paper version of the training material will be provided for your training. The course material can be downloaded free of charge via your portal before the start of the course (download the Client Portal User’s Guide here). You will be able to view it on the screen of your mobile device or print it if necessary. If your registration has been made by a training manager of your company please contact him/her so that he/she can give you access to it or send it to you.
Certificate
The course ends with a written exam. Successful completion of the exam is sanctioned by a certificate of success issued by the House of Training.
NB: A webcam is required to pass the online examination
Location
L-1615 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Sessions and schedules
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Wed 29.10.2025
08:30 to 16:30
7H
Project Management Fundamentals
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Thu 30.10.2025
08:30 to 16:30
7H
Project Management Fundamentals
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Fri 31.10.2025
08:30 to 16:30
7H
Project Management Fundamentals
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg
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Fri 31.10.2025
16:00 to 17:00
1H
Project Management Fundamentals
Chambre de Commerce Luxembourg