Today’s organization deals with ever-increasing levels of complexity and the ever-increasing speed of change. In order to achieve maximum effectiveness managers must continually sharpen their skills. In this program you will study how to: Understand and apply best practices of the business analysis discipline, conduct a business-needs analysis to elicit stakeholder requirements, utilize methods, tools, and techniques to identify issues and opportunities, develop effective requirements and communication plans, and prepare, manage and implement solution assessment and validation
Organizations that are project-driven are faced with the challenge of effective management of inter-dependent, varied priority, varied value, multi-players, shared-resources, short and long term, multiple-accountability, shared-authority, variable risk level, and dynamic projects. Therefore, it is not enough to deliver get projects. Leaders are now focusing on the effectiveness of whole organizations, and the delivery of a web of changing and interacting projects to achieve the aims of their organizations. This calls for a systematic management approach for the successful delivery of those projects.
The program will present the latest in project delivery, planning and monitoring approaches and methodologies, negotiation strategies, and innovative technologies for the management of oil and gas projects with specific examples of what works and what does not.
The ISO 21502 Lead Project Manager training course aids in the development of the skills required for starting, planning, overseeing, controlling, and concluding a project in accordance with ISO 21502. The training course not only gives you a theoretical foundation in project management, but it also includes exercises and quizzes that will allow you to put what you've learned to use. You can apply for the exam once you've finished the training course. You can apply for the "Certified ISO 21502 Lead Project Manager" credential if you pass the exam. An internationally recognized "ISO 21502 Lead Project Manager" certificate verifies your talents as a professional and shows that you have the knowledge and skills required to manage a project in accordance with ISO standards.
The decision to proceed with a project is often based almost exclusively on early conceptual cost estimates, and these estimates provide the basis for the cash flow projections and budget forecasts used during the project feasibility study. Unreliable cost estimates can result in significant cost overruns later in the project life when it is too late to contain them. As potential projects are considered, management not only requires cost estimates of high accuracy, they seek opportunities to reduce life-cycle costs, improve budget accuracy, and optimize whole-life project value. Determining which estimation method to use, at each stage of project development, depends on the information available at the time of preparation and its desired accuracy. Besides, decisions regarding optimizing project costs without sacrificing quality or functionality are highly dependent on the use of a set of systematic and logical procedures and techniques to enhance the whole-life project value. This course will provide the delegates with the necessary skills needed for accurately estimating the total cost of their proposed projects, eliminating unnecessary costs, linking cost estimates to selected procurement methods, and enhancing the overall value of project delivery. The course offers a series of estimating techniques and processes to forecast accurately the anticipated costs of projects with a focus on budget estimates, estimates for pre-construction services, estimating contractor and sub-contractor work, estimating general conditions, pricing self-performed work, estimating negotiated contracts, and performing lump-sum and unit-price estimates. The course also presents the value engineering methodology which emphasizes the return-on-investment aspect of decision-making in terms of lifecycle costs during project planning, procurement, and execution. This methodology can be used to identify alternative ideas/solutions at any project phase to produce the client’s best value requirements. Within the project management context, this course significantly enhances cost estimating, budgeting, creative thinking, problem-solving, and informed decision-making skills.
Leadership in project management is a journey of discovery. It begins with finding the best of who you are and continues with developing and nurturing your ideal leadership identity to develop skills that will make projects more successful. This course will reinforce your leadership identity to become sustainable with every action you take, or decision you make in all your projects. In the context of managing projects, the more people abilities you have, the better you can get the job done. Accordingly, this course pays special attention to enhancing your ability to leverage personal skills to positively influence others. It presents the skills and methods needed to gracefully and assertively influence others in a project over which you do not have direct control. The course covers different leadership traits, characteristics, behaviors, and styles. It examines interpersonal styles and skills as they affect project leadership, motivation, team dynamics, trust, and employee empowerment. The integration between concepts is covered with the view to create more opportunities for your project to succeed while maintaining your integrity. Finally, the conference focuses on getting what a project needs through negotiation. It demonstrates how influence tactics, personal power, and organizational politics can all be used while involved in various aspects of project negotiating.
The effective management of processes is crucial for the production and process-based organizations. Nowadays, if contemporary organizations want to stay competitive, they are urged to think in terms of process-value added to customers/shareholders. Production planning, scheduling activities, and controlling of processes represent essential activities to be performed and monitored by organizations as they implement their key processes, activities, and operations. In addressing these issues, this conference is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing the costs of those processes for which they are accountable. By combining techniques analysis, problems, and examples with a real case study the conference provides delegates with key skills, which are essential in managing and controlling processes/projects in times of increasing global competition.
This course aims at equipping the hiring (line) managers, procurement, and recruiters to maximize the return on investment in the “recruit to contract termination” process of external consultants and contractors for the hiring organizations. Organizations want to enjoy the flexibility of a contractor’s workforce instead of internal staff, but would there be conflicts when contractors and internal staff have to work together? How to ensure seamless team effort among contractors and internal staff? The trend of outsourcing and the continuous interest of shareholders to want organizations to have fewer and fewer headcounts and governments should become smaller and smaller; the importance and popularity of external consultants and contractors keep increasing. How to identify and attract the best contractors/consultants? How to accelerate the onboarding time for contractors/consultants? How to retain them? How to get the most out of them within a flexible contract period? It is quite similar to the case with internal employees, yet there is a significant difference too.