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Project Management: Effective Planning, Execution and Control |
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Overview |
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Organizations are facing a tough challenge to preserve output with workforce reductions. They must still be able to deliver their strategic and operational plans and stay poised for improving market conditions. Project management training that focuses on global best practices and methodologies provides a high pay back to organizations wanting to ensure that work on projects and quality initiatives move forward effectively, efficiently and productively with no waste to the bottom-line.
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Session Focus |
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to manage a project from start to finish using proven methodologies, worldwide standards and global best practices in project management within the constraints of time and budget, return on investment and customer requirements.
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Who Should Attend? |
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| Individuals who are involved in managing or implementing medium to large projects. it will be of benefit to project managers, project leaders and project team members who must manage their projects within the constraints of time and budget as well as meeting corporate and customer requirements. |
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What You Will Learn |
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- Learn how to manage an entire project from beginning to end either as an individual or with a team.
- Gain confidence in managing a project by working on a project plan simulation that is representative of a project you will need to manage in your organization.
- Recognize what competency requirements may be necessary for your project and how to select the best project manager and team members.
- Understand the Project Life Cycle from project definition to close
- Develop a communication strategy that keeps the project team, project sponsor and other stakeholders happy.
- Identify and manage the critical path of the project.
- Develop a budget for the project and a breakdown of the costs to the lowest level of activity possible.
- Manage all the expenditures within the project's budget.
- Determine all the project milestones.
- Create a full risk management plan including contingencies.
- Manage project changes throughout the project
- Learn and apply the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and the ISO 10006: 2003 Guidelines for Quality
- Determine and Agree on the project team roles.
- Identify project stakeholders
- Anticipate what may be required to maintain a customer focus with the project and deliver to required quality standards.
- Understand how to work with vendors and suppliers on the development of the project scope and project plan as well as throughout the execution of the project.
- Develop project scope, the project plan, a project change management plan and a project risk management plan.
- Delegate effectively to resources responsible for completion of some aspects of the project plan but who many not be on the core project team.
- Ensure project tasks include duration and scheduling parameters.
- Identify all project task dependencies.
- Find out what is available in project management software and when to use it.
- Present and report to management on the project's progress.
- Implement the project plan successfully.
- Close and evaluate the project upon completion.
- Conduct a project close-out meeting
- Create a method of archiving and retaining information learned from the project for others that follow.
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Course Duration: |
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3 Days
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PDUs: |
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This course qualifies for 21.0 Professional Development Units towards the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
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