Project Management Overview
This intensive workshop puts seasoned project managers at the helm of a high-profile project within a successful organization. Working with an eight-member ‘simulated’ team, participants navigate a complex, multiproject environment to bring their 40-week project in on time and on budget. Beholden to several different stakeholders, they must achieve all this without sacrificing any of the scope that defines project success. Paying attention to the details of project execution and control will help. However, a clear strategy for working with and through others will be essential for achieving the balance between what is wanted, and what is possible.
Features
Our facilitators bring real-world experience to every workshop.
? As a team, you will manage a project from beginning to end using a computer to simulate team and stakeholder behavior. You can work through strategies where you take risks and make adjustments based on your results before applying them to your real life projects
? You will practice concepts and techniques applicable to any tool or methodology.
? Our workshop is consistent with the Project Management Institute‘s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)
Discover How To
? Communicate work scheduled for completion with a focus on critical tasks.
? Collect actual work and cost data for you project.
? Update plan components, manage team and stakeholder expectations, and communicate progress and status consistently and predictability.
? Maintain a schedule and budget with consistent predictive power.
? Manage cost, scope, and time according to a set of processes.
? Influence future project activities to meet project goals.
? Use project metrics and process to manage projects better.
? Analyze projects and the project management process continually, and adapt your managing style as needed to optimum project results.
Each section of the workshop involves several weeks of project simulation. Concepts are simulated holistically —meaning that while one concept may be emphasized, all concepts are “in play” just like real life.
Transitioning to Your Next Project
1. Project planning deliverables such as the Work Breakdown Structure, Network Diagram, Estimates, Budgets, and Critical Path.
2. Connect good project planning outputs to the tools required to execute and control projects.
Project Plan Execution and Information Distribution
1. The Execution process
2. Information handling and its impact on other processes.
3. Relating the handling of project information to the effectiveness of the execution process.
Performance Reporting
1. Performance reporting metrics: calculation and interpretation.
2. Using performance monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of the work engine driven by project plan execution.
Schedule Control
1. Methods for controlling the project schedule.
2. Using performance reporting to influence project plan execution.
Cost Control
1. Methods for controlling the project budget.
Team Development
1. Team development as a core competency in getting work done.
2. Effects of team development in meeting project scope, time, and cost.
Scope Change Control
1. Managing the completion of project scope.
Competencies
Project Plan Execution
Team Development
Information Distribution
Scope Change Control
Schedule Control
Cost Control
Performance Reporting
PM Knowledge Areas
Integration Management
Scope Management
Time Management
Cost Management
Human Resources Management
Communications Management |
