Advanced Project Management
This workshop builds on the basic practices of project management. The focus will be on improved techniques for defining, planning, and controlling large, complex projects. This workshop will include lecture, open discussions, exercises, and small team interactions to reinforce and apply the ideas and techniques presented. Participants will leave with personal plans for improving their project setup and execution.
Prerequisites:A background of basic project management training is the only prerequisite. In addition, it is assumed that participants will have at least a moderate amount of project management experience.
Key Topics
- Project management overview
- Project sponsorship considerations -"managing up"
- Types of project plans
- Project valuation - Return on Investment (ROI)
- Project initiation
- Scope definition and Work Breakdown Structure challenges
- Activity estimating challenges
- Activity sequencing and scheduling tool considerations
- Effort and cost estimation
- Defining and using project metrics
- Earned Value
- Managing fee-for-service projects
- Trade-off analysis
- Project baseline negotiation
- Project tracking and variance analysis
- Performance monitoring
- Making plan adjustments and maintaining project control
- Scope change control
- Reporting and project communications
- Managing distant and outsourced work
- Project reviews
- Project closure and lessons learned
- Process improvement
- Performance evaluation
- Portfolios and programs
Instructor
PATRICK NEAL has a passion for helping people and organizations reduce costs, improve productivity, and shorten time-to-market by developing organizational and individual competence in project management. He has worked with more than 200 organizations including IBM, AT&T, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and PG&E. More than 10,000 project managers have attended his training classes.
Patrick was a member of the Hewlett-Packard Project Management Initiative which was credited by an industry study with developing the best high-technology approach to project management. He founded the Project Management Office at Agilent Technologies.
Patrick has a doctorate in Organizational Communication and is certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability & Results |
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| August 28 - 29 | |
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| September 12 | |
Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager |
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| September 17 | |
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| September 19 | |
5 Habits of Intentional Leadership |
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| October 17 | |
Managing Time and Multiple Priorities |
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| November 14 | |
Managing Time and Multiple Priorities - Self-Paced |
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