This seminar is designed for individuals who hold responsibility for implementing large or complex projects. These projects may involve managing multiple concurrent projects or projects that cut across various departments and rely on shared resources. The scope of projects can range from information technology, construction, petrochemical, marketing, manufacturing, and more. Through case study exercises, participants will learn how to plan and control such projects using both manual and automated methods.

The seminar aims to educate attendees on running projects in accordance with the standards outlined in the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge. The knowledge gained from this seminar not only enables effective project management practices but also serves as preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. Please note that PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Objectives:

Learn advanced project planning, scheduling and control skills.
Learn how to manage large, complex projects, or multiple simple projects.
Learn how to manage multiple projects at once with shared resources.
Learn how to set up teams; motivate, delegate, negotiate and manage the people on your project.
Learn how to do information rollup and report summarized information to different levels of the organization. Learn how to manage risk by anticipating it, controlling it and including it in the project estimate.
Learn how to estimate effort, duration and cost of a project.
Learn how to plan a project balancing the constraints of time, cost and quality.
Learn how automated project management tools assist in project planning and control.
Learn how to detect problems and fix them before crises arise.
Achieve measurable improvements in leadership performance
Develop action plans to improve leadership effectiveness
Re-focus and Re-engineer your department or organization
Learn how to manage and motivate staff to outstanding performance
Generate staff ownership and responsibility for change
Measure and improve the performance of your people
Lead difficult staff and colleagues through feedback processes.

Who Should Attend?

Program and Project Managers, Technical Project Team Leaders, Project Team members, users, and clients involved in the development of a large, or complex project. All project stakeholders in a multiple project environment.

Course Outlines:

Project Scope Planning

Project Development Plan outline
Project Proposal/Project Charter
Feasibility Study/Business Case
The Work Breakdown Structure
Milestones that are meaningful to others
Planning for information rollup
Using software such as Microsoft Project™

Project Time and Cost Planning and Risk Management

Estimating Methods
Accuracy of estimates at each stage of the plan
Advanced scheduling methods: correlating multiple projects
Resource assignment and leveling
Individual time management
Project Cost Planning: Cost sanity checks: is it realistic?
Risk Identification, Quantification, Response, Control
Risk as a monetary value: Pricing in the risk factors

Integration And Reporting Progress

Integrating scope, quality, time, cost constraints
Optimizing the plan: Speeding it up, making it cost less
Monitoring: receiving truthful information about project progress
Showing progress against the baseline: Realizing that the project is behind schedule or over budget
Using Earned Value to report accomplishment

Managing Project Communications, Procurement, and Quality
Communication: who, what where, when, how, why: information needs of different stakeholders
Effective status and review meetings
Efficient progress reporting using short, meaningful status reports
Other reports, based on Deliverables, milestones, issues
Information roll-up and project summary reporting
Project Procurement Planning and Control
RFP, Proposal, Contracting and Contract administration
Quality management: standards, methods, and literature
Quality planning, Assurance, and Control

Project Human Resources Management, Project Control, and Advanced Topics
Project Manager skills required
Building and managing the Project Teams: Motivation, demotivation, growth, burn-out, and turnover
Establishing a Project Management Office
Critical Chain scheduling
Project Risk Control
Problems: detecting and solving
Handling dependencies on other groups over whom you have no control
Project Close-out: Post-project Review and Report
Project management proverbs eams

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