- What are the types of business activities?
- What is a project and how is it different from other type of activities?
- What is a quasi-project?
- What is project management? program management? portfolio management?*
- Why is project (or program or portfolio) management important?
- What are the similarities and differences between project, program, and portfolio? How about project management, program management, and portfolio management?*
- What are example of projects in the various industries and functions? Describe them?
- What is a project (or program or portfolio) life cycle? Why is it important?*
- What are the various broad categories of project management approaches? Identify the specific methodologies within them?*
- Are the key skills of a project manager?
- Integration. How to best determine projects (or programs and portfolios) dependencies?
- Stakeholder. How to identify the key stakeholders, especially determining the supporters and dissenters?
- Scope. How to determine the project scope?
- Schedule. How to implement projects with impossible deadlines?
- Resources. How to determine the most crucial resources required for projects?
- Cost. How to create project budgets? Should the cost estimate be conservative in case of unexpected costs?
- Communication. What are the communication challenges?
- Risk. How to evaluate project risks? How to evaluate risk and the performing organization’s risk appetite?
- Quality. How to identify special quality considerations? How to achieve agreement on the the minimal acceptance thresholds?
- Resources. How to determine project resources? What to do if there are clear gaps in capability or capacity?
- Conflicts. How to effectively identify and evaluate conflicts on projects?
- Governance. How to design effective governance structures and processes?
- How to create a high-performing team?
- How to overcome the storming stage effectively?
- My team members come from different backgrounds with little understanding of project management. What I do to enhance their knowledge of project management?
- How much project management knowledge and processes does my team members really need to know?
- How do I keep my team members motivated, especially we are confronting significant headwinds?
- We have a very difficult stakeholder, but his support is crucial to our success. What should we do?
- How can I secure buy-in on an important enterprise project?
- Should I manage contractors the same as employees?
- How do I tackle part-time team members who have competing priorities?
- How to best handle low-performing team members?
