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Modular
Project Management
If there is
one skill you need to do your job in today's environment, it is
the ability to manage projects. Each and every project differs.
The lessons learned in this three day workshop
will provide you with what you need to produce quality output, on
time, and within budget.
Learn a comprehensive
project start-up Planning, and Control process that provides practical
techniques for successfully completing projects given the competing
demands of scope, time, cost, quality, and risk. You will follow
the full life cycle of a set project, from Initiating to Closing.
By using case studies, interactive exercises, and discussions you
will learn to apply classic Project Management techniques to Plan
and Control a project.
Key Points
of Reference
The 5 project phases are characterized by specific activities
and outputs.
- Understand
which tools and techniques are applied to drive different processes
- Learn to
distinguish between the 'need to have' and 'nice to have' of each
phase
- Explore actual
strategies for staying on track every step of the way
Getting Started
So,
you've been named Project Manager. What next?
- Identify
your transferable skills, leadership style, and where to focus
to get even better
- Recognize
the recommended sequence and crucial components for moving forward
- Put into
place the foundations for effective project teams
- Tame the
paper tiger up-front:
- Outline
essential versus discretionary plans
- Employ
the shortcuts offered by templates, checklists and the focused
strategies provided
- Define
effective tracking for your particular project
Positioning
For Success
How a project gets to 'yes' in your organization tells you volumes
about how to manage for project success.
- Protect your
project against the six most likely problems
- Structure
your project to meet expected and intended outcomes that will
be interpreted as 'success' by all
Pivotal Plans
Plans are the roadmap used to execute, monitor and control the
project.
- Take into
account the triple constraint faced by every project
- Use The Rule
for determining how much to plan (more is a waste)
- Apply the
technique that best protects you in high risk, high change environments
- Modular Project Conception
- Survey the
uses and creation of time tools to define which best suit your
needs: Schedules, Tracking Gantts, Milestone charts, Critical
Path Method, PERT
- Investigate
12 techniques for completing your project faster
- Avoid the
pitfalls that lead to missed deadlines
Estimating
Estimating is considered by many to be a black art.
- Familiarize
yourself with the 4 principal estimating techniques
- Acquire the
knowledge necessary to improve your estimating
- Review the
'how to' of cost estimating and budgets
- Acquaint
yourself with the most current monitoring and control techniques
based on your integrated estimates
Integrate
and Iterate
The plan's foundation is now in place.
- Strengthen
your execution and prevent problems by revisiting:
- Risk
- Experience
the process of identifying, analyzing, classifying and
responding to your project risks
- Develop
responses for critical project problems
- Quality
- Establish
the checkpoints and milestones necessary to monitor, review
and correct quality
- Change
Control
- Keep
unnecessary change in check
- Investigate
change control mechanisms
- Communication
- Get
the right information for managing
- Refine
standard status reports so that they meet the needs of
your particular project
- Compensate
for what reports can't tell you
- Communicate
strategically
Tips and
Tricks
- Key elements
create project success learn which ones
- Just getting
through the project is not enough, get from the project
- Explore the
concepts underlying managing multiple projects or conflicting
priorities
Knowledge
Transfer
- Focus on
making your project benefit from what You've learned.
Who Will
Benefit From This Training?
If you want a real-world approach, fundamental skills required for
successful management of projects, and you need to get up to speed
in a hurry, this is for you.
What You
Will Receive
1. A soundly researched, unabridged workbook including: helpful
recaps, glossary of terms, checklists, worksheets, self-assessments,
and personal development plans
2. 14 professional development units from the project management
Institute
3. Certificate of attendance
Cost
Enrolment fee of $900 per participant
With four or more participants from the same organization, the enrolment
fee is $825 each
You may choose to have us bring our training right to your door.
Click
here
to register for this program.
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