Summary: Transform a brief into a solid project plan that everyone’s on board with.
Time commitment: 3 hours per week for 3 weeks (one hour online course material, 1 hour for task completion, plus 30 minutes weekly check-in with PM Heroes).
What’s covered:
- Qualifying a brief
- Differentiating scope, requirements and specifications
- Requirements gathering techniques & prioritisation methods
- Determining granularity and where to add contingency in a timing plan
- Aligning timings with availability of stakeholders
- Creating interdependent project plans
- Estimating techniques and presenting different scenarios
- Clarifying responsibilities
- Getting team buy in and approval of the plan
- Documenting the project plan or writing a statement of work for sign off
