This training session is for experienced project managers to examine advanced project and program management techniques, building on the basics to help ensure success even for large and risky projects and programs. This program stresses project management processes as an integral part of organizational culture and what senior management must do to support it and make it successful within an organization. This course aligns with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).
Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continues to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.
Learn the newest concepts and techniques for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints (Critical Chain Project Management), and other advanced concepts can help you develop solid, reliable, efficient, and effective project plans.
Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network effects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks.
Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle.
Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation.
Better handling of difficult vendors.
Improved time and cost estimates for risky and challenging projects.
Reduce cost and schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques.
Accurately report progress even on complex and risky projects.
Improve stakeholder communication and involvement.
Project managers and team leaders
Program managers
Project coordinators
Business analysts
Team members assigned to projects
Project control professionals
Operations managers
Construction managers and supervisors
Why do we do projects?
What is a project?
What is project management?
Project Delivery Systems / Life-cycle Models.
Initiating.
Qualitative techniques.
Quantitative techniques - Economic Evaluation.
Selecting the right project manager.
Project Objectives and Stakeholder assessment - who wants what?
Identification of stakeholders.
Stakeholder analysis.
Management of stakeholders.
Task Characteristics and Duration Assessment.
Planning and Scheduling Methods.
Critical Path vs Critical Chain Scheduling.
Resource Allocation Methods.
Time-Cost Trade-off.
Lead/Lag Scheduling.
What do we mean by risk?
Risk vs. uncertainty.
Attitudes towards risk.
Risk identification, factors and sources.
Risk analysis approaches.
Qualification and quantification of probability and impact.
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In order to meet these new challenges and take advantage of chances for innovation to bring about behavior and social change, participants in this three-day course will need new and improved communication competencies.
Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
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This course will help you define and implement the vision you have for yourself, your team, and your organization. Working from an initial understanding of your own capabilities, motivators, and resources, it will build an action plan for moving you and those around you towards a shared perception of the future, able to respond to an ever-changing world.
We all operate in an increasingly complex commercial and professional environment that requires us to negotiate on a daily basis not only with customers, clients, suppliers and contractors but also with managers, fellow employees, and colleagues within our own organization.
When did you last stop to think about how you work at work – and whether the way you work could be changed to help you be more successful? The Business Brain Train Seminar provides a thoroughly enjoyable environment for you to explore these questions. It shows how to make yourself more effective using mind mapping; teaches techniques for faster, more effective reading, and shows how to use memory systems to remember information. It examines techniques for idea generation, creativity and problem solving; planning; time management; and inter-personal communication skills (including making a speech and how to improve meetings. It focuses on the core skills required for success in any enterprise.