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“The trainer had excellent training skills! She answered questions effectively and ensured understanding before moving on to the next topic. It was great having an instructor who could provide ‘real world’ examples and experiences.”
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| Dave Conner - Director of Program Management and Client Relations |
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"I cannot begin to tell you how impressed and…well, “thrilled”…we are about the Project Management Training that we completed today with your organization. We continue to be impressed with your organization and staff."
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Core Curriculum |
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| Project Management Frameworks & Planning |
As more and more organizations discover the value of project management, demand for well-trained leaders is at an all-time high. In fact, business author Tom Peters states that project management is the key to success – and even survival – in the new century.
Today’s project managers need specialized skills to direct and manage people, costs, schedules and project scope. In addition, managers, team leaders and stakeholders must be proficient in a variety of tools and techniques to ensure success at each step of the project.
This highly interactive, hands on course and comprehensive course will expose students to both basic and advanced project management principles required to build a solid project plan. Students will learn how to define scope with a work breakdown structure, estimate using multiple methods, create a resource-leveled schedule, and incorporate contingency for risk in their plans. Students will work in teams on a real project and apply all of the principals in the course to develop a robust project plan in Microsoft Project.
This course will benefit project managers and team members alike, and incorporates best practices from the PMBOK® 9 Knowledge Areas.
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| Persuasion & Influence Skills for the PM |
As a project manager, you frequently have to influence people and their decisions – even though many of those people don’t report directly to you. You’ll be dealing with project team members, stakeholders who have vested interests in the deliverables, and line managers who assign people to your project team. You may also need to influence project sponsors, or persuade executive managers to improve your organization’s project management.
In all these cases, effective management and communication skills are critical to your success. This seminar will help you build and sharpen those skills. You’ll also receive, at no extra charge, a copy of the acclaimed book Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes, by Joel R. DeLuca.
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| Managing Project Risks |
In this seminar, you will learn a whole-system approach and process for identifying, analyzing, monitoring, and controlling risk. We will show you the tools, techniques and templates for dealing with various types of risks. Students will evaluate project risks using real-world case studies and effective risk identification techniques. Templates will be yours to keep and will provide your organization with a repeatable foundation for rapid and efficient risk management tracking capability.
We will help you practice identifying and analyzing risks, with a special emphasis on “showstoppers.” We’ll also show you how a comprehensive risk management plan can help your team anticipate and manage problems that could otherwise damage or delay your project.
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| Earned Value Management |
Earned value management (EVM) enables you and your project teams to more effectively plan, track and manage projects within scope, cost and schedule constraints. Since conditions and requirements can change almost daily, understanding EVM gives your program managers, team leaders, analysts and project stakeholders a crucial advantage. It’s a proven technique, and provides a solid, repeatable framework for your core management processes.
EVM helps you and your team objectively evaluate cost and schedule status, forecast future impacts, alert your team to risks and communicate strategies for recovery. Understanding EVM is critical to project planning, and specialized skills are needed to use it effectively.
This fast-paced, comprehensive course will introduce you to basic and advanced EVM principles, while showing you how to immediately apply your knowledge to real projects. It incorporates best practices from the PMBOK® 9 Knowledge Areas and American National Standards Institute 748-A.
Project managers, team members, contractors and clients can all benefit from this course. You’ll not only learn how to generate earned value data, but how to convert that data into information that improves the decision-making process. You’ll also learn how to interpret earned value metrics to aid in risk management and planning for corrective action.
Skills will be taught using case studies, group and individual exercises and daily exercises to ensure you understand the concepts and their practical applications. Students will learn to generate earned value date and reports using MS Project and how to interpret the data and produce performance reports for management. In addition to your student guide, you’ll receive an exercise notebook that you can use in class, and later, as a reference guide on the job.
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| Scope Management Techniques |
Your team can deliver your project on time and within budget – yet your client may still say, “It’s not what we expected,” and deem it a failure.
As a project manager, you want a satisfied client. But how can you balance the client’s changing needs against the realities of your budget and schedule? The answer is scope management.
Scope management doesn’t mean you automatically reject every change your client requests. Instead, it’s a formal process that helps you define the limits of your project based on the proper needs and priorities – to make sure you achieve the goals on which you and your client originally agreed.
This course will give you proven tools and techniques you can use to define and control the scope of your projects. That includes accounting for scope creep, handling change requests, controlling change within your client’s organization, and accurately assessing the impact of scope changes on your budget, schedule and staffing plans all using using MS Project.
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| Project Leadership |
Turn your group into a motivated, efficient and successful project team! A successful project starts at the top, with an effective manager. In this course, you’ll learn how to get your project team started, how and when you should intervene to increase productivity, and how to run team meetings and integrate a diverse group.
You’ll also learn how to encourage your team members, and get them to commit to specific contributions, as well as deal with conflicts or unsatisfactory performance.
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| Negotiating and Contracting with Project Service Providers |
Disputes with subcontractors can cause delays, increase costs and affect technical performance. In this course, you’ll learn what to do (and what not to do) when defining, planning, selecting, managing and administering subcontracts. You’ll also learn how to negotiate “win-win” agreements with outside subcontractors and internal service providers.
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| Project Management Capstone Course |
Apply and practice your skills for planning and managing a mid-sized project successfully.
*NOTE: You must take the first six (6) courses in the Masters Certificate series before taking the Project Management Capstone program.
In this hands-on practicum, you’ll apply all of the skills needed to start, plan, execute, control and close a project. You’ll work in a team on a simulated mid-sized project with high priority and a six-month schedule. You’ll be responsible for developing such key deliverables as the charter, plan, change control process, status reports and post-project reviews. You’ll facilitate meetings and update your plan with actuals and changes. You’ll present status updates to management, justify your decisions to key stakeholders, and determine the impact of your decisions on other projects all using MS Project.
Best of all, you’ll work under the guidance of a senior project manager who will evaluate your techniques to help you increase efficiency and effectiveness.
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| Using Microsoft Project Server 2007 |
This training is designed for technical and functional administrators. It includes such topics as configuration of Microsoft Project Professional and Project Web Access, adding users, managing views and creating templates.
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