This
practical, hands-on program provides participants with the knowledge of
how to create a system for prioritizing and compressing projects, often
with savings in time of fifty percent or greater.
Utilizing the discipline of a professional approach to project
management along with our five-step process for compressing schedules,
participants will first learn and then actually experience dramatic
schedule reduction in classroom exercises designed to demonstrate the
potential for their organization and project management programs.
Learning Objectives
- Learn and
understand a detailed, comprehensive five-step process for
compressing project schedules.
- Learn a
comprehensive process for managing your projects: planning,
scheduling and controlling.
- Learn a
system to make up time when a schedule has been flipped or when a
problem arises.
- Learn when
and how to use the critical project management tools such as PERT,
CPM, and Gantt Charts.
- Learn how
to adjust your leadership style to achieve your goals in different
project situations.
- Learn how
to marshal team resources, capitalizing on the strengths of
individual members and benefiting from the synergy of their
combined efforts.
Audience This
course is specifically designed for employees who need ramp up their
project management skills to meet those “impossible” deadlines on
important projects. Course
Outline
Understanding
the Project Management Process
 |
Key
Project Management Roles |
|
|
Defining
Project Management |
|
|
Benchmarking
Project Management Competency Levels |
|
|
Project
Life Cycle Concepts |
Creating
Project Focus
|
|
Evaluating
Risks |
|
|
Writing
a Project Charter for Achieving Project Objectives |
|
|
Developing
Effective Communication Plans for Projects |
How to Plan
Your Project
|
|
Nine-Step
Planning Process |
|
|
Stage-Gate
Models |
|
|
Chartering
and Network Diagrams |
|
|
Effective
Time and Cost Estimating |
How to Crash
Your Project Schedules
|
|
Your
Five-Step Crashing Model |
|
|
Dealing
with Changes to Project Scope |
|
|
Troubleshooting
Problems: Potential Problem Analysis |
|
|
Communication:
Methods for Reporting |
Additional
Issues in Project Management
|
|
How
to Organize Your Project Teams |
|
|
Appropriate
Leadership Styles for Different Project Situations |
|
|
Creating
a Project Management Culture in Your Organization |
|
|
Effective
Auditing Models for Projects |
|
|
Project
Committees and Team Meetings |
|
|
Factors
for Project Success |
Wrapping It
Up- How to End Your Project
|
|
Project
Closure Process |
|
|
Action
Agenda |
|
|
Punch
List |
|
|
Project
Management- Lessons Learned |
|
|
Technical
Lessons Learned |
Post Project
Assessment
|
|
World
Class Project Management Key Success Factors |
|
|
Characteristics
of World Class Project Management |
Program Format- 3
Days This
program includes a comprehensive workbook featuring step-by-step
planning information that serves as your blueprint to effectively
compressing schedules on future projects.
Techniques and principles are illustrated with examples and
cases, and participants have many opportunities to ask questions and
discuss problems they have experienced.
Participants also have the opportunity to apply the skills and
principles that are taught throughout the program by working though an
actual project case study.
The maximum class size is 20, but for optimum results 12-16
participants is ideal. |
