This workshop is intended for leaders, new project managers, associate project
managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, team
leaders, product managers, stakeholders, and senior managers who want to master
project management. This workshop provides an overview of the role of project
management and presents project management techniques and best practices to teach
you how to manage all phases of a project. This 2-day course gives learners
insight into why projects fail, what makes projects succeed, and how professional
project management increases success.
The workshop consists of lecture plus a number of interactive exercises and
activities to enhance understanding and give learners practical tools and techniques.
The instructor for this workshop will be a project specialist with extensive
organizational experience, such as Bruce McGraw. This ensures that the audience for
this course, professionals with responsibility for managing projects, project teams,
or project management office staff, will learn highly practical techniques. Each
participant also receives a supporting notebook with tips, exercises and references.
For maximum learning, preferred class size is 10 or fewer.
Topics for this 2-day workshop include:
- Project management framework and life cycle
- Project charter development
- Project and team organization
- Project roles and staffing
- Communications planning
- Risk management
- Sources of change
- Work breakdown structure (WBS) development
- Creating the schedule
- Estimating activity duration and negotiating realistic estimates
- Iterative plan refinement
- Project control - status/progress, reports and meetings, corrective action, change and issues control
- Activity analysis
- Scope and issues management
- Budgeting
- Project meeting tips
- Managing expectations
- Why projects fail
- Closing procedures
Contact us for more information about this workshop or to schedule it at your site.