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Overview:
The Challenge
Within virtually every enterprise there is growing understanding of just how crucial successful projects are to financial well-being. After all, our ability to reach Strategic Objectives largely depends on the success of our major initiatives. In parallel with this understanding is the realization that all levels of the organization must become conversant with the primary principles of project management. It is only through a shared understanding of how projects are chosen, funded, planned and executed that we can truly become proficient at achieving regular project success.
The Solution
Project Management Overview for Managers delivers a power-packed overview of the essential project management concepts and techniques that every business manager must know. All topics include field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Participants are shown how to structure a project, establish and manage scope, create an effective schedule, identify and manage risks, control costs, manage to the triple constraint and more. The format includes a mixture of group discussions, exercises and lecture. Whether new to Project Management or building on existing skills, participants will return to their business better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion. Learning Objectives include an understanding of:
- Project lifecycle and project environment
- Getting a project off to a good start
- Knowing who your stakeholders are
- Providing good estimates
- Defining and managing scope, schedule and budget
- The Communication Strategy
- Importance of Quality
- Managing Project Risk
- Change Control
- Product delivery
Audience:
This course will be of value to business owners, newly assigned project managers and team leads, managers of project mangers, and business managers with project responsibility.
Prerequisites:
This course assumes some experience with project work but no specific prior PM training.
Course duration:
1 day
Course Includes:
- PMP® certified instruction
- Student Guide
- Participation Certificate
- 6 PDUs
Course Outline:
- Defining Project and Project Management
- The Project Environment
- Sources of Project Success and Failure
- Roles in the Project
- Project Life Cycle
- The Project Charter
- Project objectives and Business Value
- Estimation
- Defining Scope - Requirements and the WBS
- Developing the Project Schedule
- The Communication Strategy
- Project Budget - controlling cost
- Importance of Quality
- Risk Management
- Change Control
- Transition Planning - Product Delivery
- Project closure - Lessons Learned
- Conclusion
Learning Approach:
- A highly experienced instructor will use interactive lecture format, short exercises, group discussions, and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material
- We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future projects.
- If you have modest project management knowledge, you will find that the clarity of the material and direct presentation style of the instructor will make the subject matter easy to understand.
- You will receive a Student Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.
Why should I take this course?:
- If you are experiencing difficulties in your projects, the material in this PM course will give you an understanding of steps you can take to gain control.
- Experienced project managers will obtain a vocabulary and framework from this Project Training that lends structure and perspective to the wealth of experience they already have.
- All participants take home a set of tools and techniques to help them deal with all aspects of project planning and execution.
- Take this course and learn how to avoid the problems that business managers most often encounter in their projects.
- Project Management Training teaches concepts that can make you more effective in almost any work that you do.
