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Project Management: Skills for Success

 
Course: 296   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Produce a project plan to ensure successful delivery and stakeholder satisfaction
  • Plan and run projects using best practices in a 6-step project management process
  • Implement risk management techniques and mitigation strategies
  • Estimate and schedule task work and duration with confidence
  • Implement monitoring tools and controls to keep you fully in command of the project
  • Recognize and practice the leadership skills needed to run a motivated team

Course Benefits

As an effective project manager, you organize scarce resources, work under tight deadlines, control project change and generate maximum team performance. Through a simulated case study, you learn how to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects. You also learn how to implement project management processes, develop leadership skills and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you take away templates and checklists for use back at the office.

Who Should Attend

Individuals who need to strengthen their project management skill sets, those new to project management, or project managers seeking a refresher on fundamental project management knowledge, skills and tools.

Course Workshop

Through a multimedia-enhanced four-day simulation, you manage an extensive and comprehensive project. You use real-world PC- and paper-based tools and templates to actively plan, control and close the project. Experiential activities include:
  • Defining clear project goals and measurable deliverables
  • Brainstorming the work breakdown structure
  • Estimating task duration and work
  • Determining task dependencies and schedules
  • Assigning and optimizing resources
  • Developing risk management plans
  • Producing the implementation plan
  • Managing and responding to changes
  • Evaluating motivation and team-building issues

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Aug 26 - 29, 2008
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Aug 26 - 29, 2008
 Philadelphia
Sep 9 - 12, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Sep 16 - 19, 2008
 New York
Sep 16 - 19, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Sep 23 - 26, 2008
 Toronto
Sep 23 - 26, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2008
 Baltimore
Oct 14 - 17, 2008
 Atlanta
Oct 14 - 17, 2008
 Ottawa
Oct 21 - 24, 2008
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Oct 21 - 24, 2008
 Los Angeles
Oct 21 - 24, 2008
 Toronto
Oct 28 - 31, 2008
 New York
Oct 28 - 31, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)

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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Project Management: Skills for Success

 
Course: 296   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 296 Content
 

Introduction

  • Managing the project processes
  • Creating a realistic and achievable plan for the project
  • Working within project constraints

Launching Your Project

Applying a project framework for success

  • Identifying the project life cycle stages and the key inputs and outputs
  • Balancing typical challenges of project management
  • Selecting and applying best practices

Core project leadership skills

  • Identifying stages of team development
  • Building and managing team effectiveness

Building a project charter

  • Defining clear project objectives
  • Determining and clarifying the goals
  • Defining key project deliverables
  • Running the objective-setting meeting
  • Gaining buy-in from stakeholders

The 6-Step Planning Method

Defining the project workload

  • Determining project scope with work breakdown structures (WBS)
  • Driving the plan down to task level
  • Calculating a first cut of project costs

Building high-confidence estimates

  • Effective ways to produce better estimates
  • Three-point estimating to refine accuracy
  • Managing the estimating process

Scheduling the project

  • Converting WBS to precedence networks
  • Determining the critical path tasks
  • Creating dependency diagrams
  • Calculating the project duration

Creating the project timeline

  • Building Gantt charts
  • Using slack effectively in the schedule
  • Setting key milestones to track and control the project

Developing a risk management process

  • Identifying the project risks and assumptions
  • Evaluating risk impacts
  • Strategies for managing risks
  • Managing key risks with the Risk Register
  • Reducing risks through contingency plans

Effectively matching resources to work

  • Identifying resources
  • Assigning resources to tasks
  • Analyzing resource use and costs in the schedule
  • Optimizing the use of resources
  • Preparing and agreeing on task contracts

Running the Project

Establishing an effective control process

  • Establishing change control procedures
  • Presenting the project plan for approval
  • Setting the baseline schedule

Implementing the plan

  • Monitoring actual task progress
  • Analyzing progress against the baseline
  • Correcting the project plan to achieve the objectives
  • Picking up warnings of trouble ahead
  • Engaging team members to maximize productivity

Tracking and reporting progress

  • Tracking planned vs. actual task performance
  • Crashing the critical path tasks
  • Analyzing the impact of variation to the baseline plan
  • Avoiding the 90-percent-complete trap
  • Correcting the schedule

Leading throughout the project life cycle

  • Communicating project status to stakeholders
  • Coping with common project scenarios
  • Building ownership, motivation and commitment across the team

Successful Project Closure

  • Managing systematic project closedown
  • The payoff of post-implementation review
  • Documenting project and personal lessons learned for process improvement
 
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Project Management: Skills for Success Tuition

 
Course: 296   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,665 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $4,990
Flex Pass
  • 3 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,830 per course
  • Save as much as 35%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $1,070 per course
  • Only $3,950
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $960 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,095 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $295 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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