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Advanced Techniques in Project Management
Fully Customizable Curriculum - 2 to 11 days
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This curriculum begins where most Project Management training programs end. This course assumes that the attendees are familiar with the concepts and vocabulary contained in the PMBOK®. Advanced concepts are covered at the start and then applied through the remainder of the course. The material covered in each topic deals with solutions to the issues most commonly encountered during project planning and execution, with ample time provided for class discussion and application of advanced concepts to real-world problems. The format is truly multimodal, with a mixture of exercises, simulations, group discussions, individual discovery and lecure. At the end of this course, even long experienced practitioners will walk away with a long list of actionable steps they can take to bring success to their projects.
Days 1 and 2 comprise the Advanced Foundation course. This course is a prerequisite for all other Advanced Topics. Any combination of Advanced Foundation and Advanced Topics may be packaged together. Contact us for the curriculum that best suits your organization's needs.
Advanced Foundation:
- Day 1: Advanced Topics 1
Defining Project Success; The People Factor; Human Factors Analysis; Working with Organizational Culture; Leveraging Project Roles for Success; Ethical Project Management
- Day 2: Advanced Topics 2
Finding Opportunity in a sea of Risk; The Opportunistic Project Manager; Leadership in Projects; The Energized Team; Project Stewardship; Human Factors Assessment
Advanced Topics:
- Day 3: Communication.
Critical Thinking; Overcoming Barriers to Communication; Building Client Rapport; Good Meeting Practice; The Communication Plan
- Day 4: Defining Projects.
The Project Sponsor; Embedding the Business Perspective into projects; Early Project Estimation and Budgeting; Stakeholder Analysis; The Project Charter; ROI and Risk; Project Governance and Project Selection
- Day 5: Planning Projects.
Planning the Human Element into the Project; Planning for Organizational Change; Quick Risk Assessment; Client participation; Project Metrics; Project Templates; Optimizing the Project Plan
- Day 6: Defining Scope.
Product Scope; Project Scope; The Requirements Process; Establishing Change Control; Dealing with shifting scope; Managing Expectations; The Scope Statement
- Day 7: Project Schedules.
Where schedules come from; the WBS as foundation; effective estimation; The Project Schedule; Dealing with an Unreasonable Schedule; Critical Path with constrained Resources
- Day 8: Project Cost.
The Project Budget; Earned Value; Dealing with an Unreasonable Budget; Procurement; Resource Planning; Customers on the project; Working with Vendors; controlling cost
- Day 9: Quality.
Defining Quality; Building Quality in; Getting customers involved in Quality; Project Plan as Quality Instrument; Quality Assurance; The Quality Plan
- Day 10: Project Execution.
Monitoring Progress - Effective Status Reporting; Dealing with Scope Creep and other Unplanned Change; Managing Issues and Risk; Getting Decisions; Managing Organizational Change; Getting to the Finish Line
- Day 11: Closing a Project.
Interface with O&M; Why Lessons Learned aren't; Getting credit where it is due; Magic of Celebration; Closing the books; Measuring Business Impact
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