The Comprehensive Project Management Seminar

Abstract

Learn the project management body of knowledge in a 5 or 6-day comprehensive program paced to appeal to those with experience working in a project management (PM) environment. Instructors for this course bring a PM discipline gained from years of managing projects in rigorous project-driven industries.

This “professional” level course appeals to a broad mix of industries. Participants include engineers, contractors, software developers and manufacturers engaged in technical projects; others are involved in business and financial projects. We facilitate discussions among the participants about their project management challenges and successes.

Once completed, you will return to your workplace qualified to improve your organization’s PM process. Many people who have taken our course have gone on to a high-profile position in their organization.

This course may be delivered as a complete unit or as two separate parts:

  • Part A: Core Skills  (3 days)
  • Part B: Enhanced Skills  (3 days)

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

  • Become conversant with the whole breadth of modern project management.
  • Increase your own PM “lessons learned” by learning from the PM experiences of others.
  • Add techniques to your PM “toolbox,” increasing your value to your organization and in the job marketplace.
  • Return to your workplace equipped to improve your organization’s PM process.
  • Prepare to take the PMP examination (should you choose).

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The Comprehensive Project Management Seminar is appropriate for individuals who:

  • Are being appointed as a Project Manager.
  • Work in a project management environment and want to increase their PM knowledge.
  • Are preparing for the PMP or CAPM designation.
  • Want to enhance their marketability in the project management job market.

 

PREREQUISITE

3-day Project Management Essentials (or its equivalent), or you already work in a project management environment that manages project scope, cost and time.

MATERIALS

You will receive a course workbook containing copies of presentation slides, case studies, exercises, and suggested solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Introduction, Context and Integration

  • History of PM, PM body of knowledge
  • Context within portfolios and programs
  • Project life cycles, triple constraint
  • Project Charter, Project Management Plan, Integrated Change Control
  • Lessons learned
  • Exercise: past experiences (success and failure)

 

Stakeholder Management
  • Identify stakeholders, manage and control stakeholder expectations
  • Exercises: stakeholder identification and requirements, managing stakeholder expectations

 

Scope Management
  • Scope planning, definition, validation
  • Work Breakdown Structures
  • Scope changes, scope creep, scope control
  • Exercises: Work Breakdown Structure, Scope Creep

 

Time Management
  • Hierarchy of Schedules
  • Logic Networks: PDM, CPM
  • Duration Estimating
  • Resource Loading and Leveling
  • Critical Path Compression
  • Schedule Risk Analysis & Contingency
  • Schedule Reporting and Control
  • Exercises: Post-it Note Schedule Development, Resource Leveling, Crashing

 

Cost Management
  • Cost Estimating
  • Contingency Allowance
  • Budgeting
  • Cost Reporting and Control
  • Earned Value Management
  • Estimates to Complete
  • Contingency Allowances and Management
  • Exercises: Estimating, Earned Value

 

Quality Management
  • Principles of Quality
  • Quality Planning
  • Quality Assurance - tools
  • Quality Control - tools
  • Exercises: Principles, Pareto Diagram, Ishikawa Diagram

 

Procurement Management

  • Organizing for Procurement
  • Contract Law
  • Plan Procurements
  • Contract Types, Risk Allocation
  • Conduct Procurements - Solicitation & Selection
  • Administer Procurements
  • Dispute Avoidance & Resolution
  • Contract Close-Out
  • Exercises: Battle of the Forms, Tendering, Evaluation Criteria, Procurement Plan

 

Risk Management
  • Risk Identification
  • Assessment
  • Quantification
  • Expected Monetary Value
  • Decision Trees
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Risk Response Planning
  • Exercises: Risk Identification, Risk Mapping, Risk Tolerance, Risk Responses

 

Human Resource Management
  • Organizing for Projects
  • Motivation & Leadership
  • Power and Influence
  • Team Development
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Exercises: Working in a Matrix, Applying Behavioral Theories, Situational Leadership, Conflict Resolution

 

Communication Management
  • Process of Communication
  • Communications Plan
  • Progress Reports
  • Virtual Teams
  • Exercises: Communication Problems, Communications Plan

 

Closing
  • Trends in Project Management
  • Organizational Maturity
  • Application to Types of Project Environment

 

 

PMP, CAPM, PMI, PMBOK are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. 

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