Course Objectives

• Learn advanced project planning, scheduling and control skills.
• Learn how to manage large, complex projects, or multiple simple projects.
• Learn how to manage multiple projects at once with shared resources..
• Learn how to set up teams; motivate, delegate, negotiate and manage the people on your project.
• Learn how to do information rollup and report summarized information to different levels of the organization.
• Learn how to manage risk by anticipating it, controlling it and including it in the project estimate.
• Learn how to estimate effort, duration and cost of a project.
• Learn how to plan a project balancing the constraints of time, cost and quality.
• Learn how automated project management tools assist in project planning and control.
• Learn how to detect problems and fix them before crises arise.

Course Outline

Project Scope Planning

• Project Development Plan outline
• Project Proposal/Project Charter
• Feasibility Study/Business Case
• The Work Breakdown Structure
• Milestones that are meaningful to others
• Planning for information rollup
• Using software such as Microsoft Project™

Project Time and Cost Planning and risk Management

• Estimating Methods
• Accuracy of estimates at each stage of the plan
• Advanced scheduling methods: correlating multiple projects
• Resource assignment and levelling
• Individual time management
• Project Cost Planning: Cost sanity checks: is it realistic?
• Risk Identification, Quantification, Response, Control
• Risk as a monetary value: Pricing in the risk factors

Integration and Reporting Progress

• Integrating scope, quality, time, cost constraints
• Optimizing the plan: Speeding it up, making it cost less
• Monitoring: receiving truthful information about project progress
• Showing progress against the baseline: Realizing that the project is behind schedule or over budget
• Using Earned Value to report accomplishment

Managing Project Communications, Procurement and Quality

• Communication: who, what where, when, how, why: information needs of different stakeholders
• Effective status and review meetings
• Efficient progress reporting using short, meaningful status reports
• Other reports, based on: Deliverables, milestones, issues
• Information roll-up and project summary reporting
• Project Procurement Planning and Control
• RFP, Proposal, Contracting and Contract administration
• Quality management: standards, methods and literature
• Quality planning, Assurance and Control

Project Human Resources Management, Project Control and Advanced Topics

• Project Manager skills required
• Building and managing the Project Teams: Motivation, demotivation, growth, burn-out and turnover
• Establishing a Project Management Office
• Critical Chain scheduling
• Project Risk Control
• Problems: detecting and solving
• Handling dependencies on other groups over whom you have no control
• Project Close-out: Post project Review and Report
• Project management proverbs exams

Project Delivery Systems & Project Success Factors

• Pros and Cons of various Systems?
• Success Factors, what to look for?
• Current issues in Design-Build

• Build - Operate - Transfer (BOT), Functional Specifications, Issues and Concerns

Who Should Attend?

• Program and Project Managers
• Technical Project Team Leaders
• Project Team members
• Users and clients involved in the development of a large, or complex project. All project stakeholders in a multiple project environment.