Introduction to Project Management 3-day training seminar, $1895

Overview

This Project Management training course, provides an opportunity to learn the latest project management techniques and best practices. With hands-on activities, you'll become an expert in effectively managing all phases of a project. The seminar uses the structured project management framework of initiation, planning, execution, control, and formal closing, teaching you the steps that ensure project success. It focuses on practical tools and techniques you can use immediately back on the job. You will spend 75% of your time working on a project during class - from initiation to close. The hands-on approach during this training gives you the best opportunity to acquire skills that otherwise would take months to master.

You'll Learn...

• Basic terminology of project management
• How to identify the project management life cycle
• To understand the project management knowledge areas
• How to Build a business case for project initiation
• How to define project scope and stakeholder expectations
• How to define roles and responsibilities for project stakeholders
• How to build an effective WBS and project schedule
• To ensure buy-in from your team and sponsors
• How to identify, analyze, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
• How to create project management plans for quality, communication, resources, and stakeholder management
• How to manage project change through formal change control processes
• How to close a project

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for Associate project managers, project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project team members, stakeholders, and senior managers who want to use Microsoft Project 2003.

Agenda

Project Management Framework

• Project Management Intitute
• Project Management framework
  • Five Process Groups
  • Life Cycles
  • Nine Knowledge Areas
• What is a Project?
• Project Management Terminology

Initiating

• Five Steps of Project Initiation
  • Build a Business Case
  • Establish Project Scope
  • Analyze Stakeholder Needs
  • Identify Constraints
  • Build a Communication Plan
• BOSSCARD Framework
  • Initiating Questions
  • Objectives
  • The Project Charter
  • Constraints
  • Assumptions
  • Scope
• Stakeholder Analysis
  • Prioritization Grid
  • Five Stakeholder Groups
• Project Roles and Responsibilities
  • The Responsibility Assignment Matrix
• Sign-Off Process

Planning

• Seven Steps of Successful Planning
• Communications Planning
• Risk Management
• Identify, Assess, Quantify, and Manage
• Risk Management Life Cycle
• Risk Response Strategies
• Sources of Change
• Formal Change Control Process
• Managing Organizational Change
• Developing the WBS
• Diagramming a Project
• Identifying the Critical Path
• Creating the Schedule
• Producing Effective Estimates

Controlling and Closing

• Project Controls
  • The Constraints Quartet
  • Focus on Past and Future
  • Project Meeting Tips
  • Key Principles for Control
• Challenges
  • Activity Analysis
• Expectations
  • Stakeholder Expectations
  • Project Environment
  • Expectation Control Elements
  • Project Manager vs. Expectation Gap
• Organizational Style
  • Why do Projects Fail?

Closing Processes

• Administrative Closure

Case Studies

You will be given a realistic case study that will serve as the context for most of the exercises in the course. The case study project provides a basis for practicing new tools and techniques for managing the competing demands of a cross-functional project team, conflicting expectations among stakeholders, and significant, visible organizational impacts. Exercises Work individually and on a team to write objectives, conduct stakeholder analysis, and develop a work breakdown structure and risk management plan for the case study project. Practice using estimating techniques, dependency analysis, and network diagramming. Consider various and competing expectations from stakeholders, including the customer, sponsor, and team, as you develop and present plans to address expectations in ways that benefit the project.

Exercise 1: Project Management Terminology

Exercise 2: Establishing the Project Background and Developing the Project Mini Charter

• Complete the mini charter template
• Identify assumptions and constraints
• Identify triple constraints paired comparison importance

Exercise 3: Stakeholder Identification and Analysis

• Develop roles and responsibilities
• Conduct stakeholder analysis
• Document stakeholder expectations

Exercise 4: Communications Planning

• Document communications plan

Exercise 5: Risk Planning

• Create a risk management matrix
• Assess risks and formulate a response plan

Exercise 6: Change Management Planning

• Create a change management plan
• Use a change request form
• Document changes in a change control log

Exercise 7: Developing the WBS

Exercise 8: Activity Definition

Exercise 9: Estimating Activity Duration

Exercise 10: Calculating the Critical Path

Exercise 11: Developing the Project Schedule

Exercise 12: Project Controls

• Deliverable acceptance
• Kickoff meeting agenda
• Meeting agenda and meeting minutes
• Executive status report
• Schedule and budget status report
• Team member status report

Exercise 13: Managing Expectations

Exercise 14: Planning for Closure

• Closure survey
• Closure report

Exercise 15: Evaluating PM Competencies

Registration Fees
The per student registration fee is $1,895, and includes the seminar, course materials, breakfast, morning and afternoon refreshments.

Class begins at 8:30 AM each day and concludes at 4:30 PM unless otherwise directed. Please arrive early on the first day to sign-in and meet fellow attendees. If you register less than a week in advance of a class, please bring your confirmation letter. Business casual attire is appropriate.

To register for this training seminar, click on the "Book Now" button or please call (708) 246-0320

Seminar Schedule

May 19-21	Chicago, IL	Microtek ()
May 19-21	Atlanta, GA	Atlanta Training Ctr ()
June 2-4	Seattle, WA	Seattle Training Ctr ()
June 2-4	Morristown, NJ	Morristown Offices ()
June 9-11	Philadelphia, PA	Microtek ()
June 16-18	Washington, DC	Arlington Training Ctr ()
June 16-18	Chicago, IL	Schaumburg Offices ()
June 23-25	San Francisco, CA	Microtek ()

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Payment is due prior to the conference.

Cancellation Policy.  Registrants may cancel up to fourteen days in advance of the seminar start date for a full refund, less administrative fees of $400.  Or, you may transfer your registration to another member of your company at no additional charge.  Registrants canceling within fourteen days of the seminar will receive training credit, less administrative fees of $400 toward any other Resource Center seminar.

If there is a possibility you may not be able to attend, you may request that your registration be put on a cost-free "hold" at the time of registration.  If you request "hold" status, processing of your payment, and confirmation in the seminar, will only proceed at your explicit direction.

In the unlikely event that a seminar must be cancelled, you will be notified at least two weeks prior to the seminar date.  Seminar provider is not responsible for losses due to cancellation including losses on advanced purchase airfares.  As seminars are cancelled for under-enrollment from time to time, we strongly recommend that registrants traveling by air purchase only refundable tickets.

Seminar agenda subject to change.

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