Practice Area

Project Management

Project Management Fundamentals for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Professionals


  • Traditional Classroom: 2-day
  • Virtual Instructor-led: Four 3-hour sessions

World-class organizations are utilizing the project discipline and structure more often to accomplish goals and objectives on time, on budget, and with all the requirements met effectively and efficiently. Project management knowledge and skills are necessary to work within the project structure. This foundational course is aligned with Project Management Institute’s PMBOK® Guide and teaches the project management knowledge and skills that provide the groundwork for success. A case study specific to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries is used throughout the course in hands-on exercises.


Target Audience

Individuals who will benefit from this course include those in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry who are:

  • New project managers
  • Experienced project managers seeking to learn industry terms and best practices
  • Project team members or any stakeholders working in project environments

Learning Objectives

  • Determine the difference between project work and ongoing operational work.
  • Facilitate consensus between project stakeholders on critical aspects of project work such as product/project scope, schedule, and budget.
  • Create collaborative teams.
  • Prepare project plans and monitor/control through the project life cycle.
  • Reduce variation and errors in communications utilizing common terms and techniques of project work.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risk.
  • Facilitate project closure techniques.

Course Outline

Introduction
  • Participant Introductions
  • Course Overview and Objectives
  • Discussion: Effective Facilitation
Module 1: Project Management Overview
  • Project Definition
    • Discussion: How Does a Project Differ from Ongoing Operations?
  • Project Benefits
  • Exercise: A Team Without a Leader
  • Project Management Defined
  • Project Management Role
    • Discussion: Your Project Examples
  • Project Management Process Groups
  • Project Life Cycle
  • Exercise: Project Goals and Objectives
Module 2: Project Initiation
  • How to Develop a Project Charter
    • Discussion: Benefits of a Project Charter
    • Exercise: Create a Project Charter
  • Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis
    • Stakeholder Register
    • Exercise: Identify and Analyze Project Stakeholders
  • Developing a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
Module 3: Project Planning
  • Project Planning
  • Defining Project/Product Scope
    • Exercise: Write a Scope Statement
  • Project Quality Management
    • Quality vs. Grade
    • Cost of Quality
    • Exercise: Cost of Quality Categories
  • Breaking Work down to Manageable Parts
    • Exercise: Create a Work Breakdown Structure and Activity List
  • Estimating Duration and Effort
  • Sequencing Work
    • Discussion: Activities and Effort Estimates
  • Creating a Project Schedule
    • Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
    • Exercise: Develop a Project Schedule Network Diagram
    • Schedule Models
  • Planning Risk Management
    • Risk Categories
    • Risk Qualification and Prioritization
    • Risk Responses
    • Exercise: Create a Risk Register
  • Project Communications Management
    • Discussion: Meetings
    • Exercise: Email Etiquette
Module 4: Project Execution/Monitoring and Controlling
  • Developing the Project Team
    • Exercise: Best Practices for Team Development
    • Exercise: Tuckman Model: Leading Teams from Forming to Norming
  • Managing Flow of Information
  • Evaluating Gaps Between Planned and Actual
  • Managing Change
  • Conflict Management
    • Exercise: Correcting a Costly Mistake
Module 5: Project Closure
  • Closing the Project
  • Finalizing Lessons Learned
  • Recognizing and Celebrating Success
    • Exercise: Project Closure and Celebration
Course Wrap-Up
  • Course Summary
  • Individual Application: Action Planning

MDI1459B Course Code


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