Successful Project Management

Learn how to complete a project effectively, on time, and within budget.

Attend Successful Project Management to develop the insights and skills you need to define, plan, and assign work; obtain meaningful commitments; coordinate
project efforts; monitor and evaluate results; manage risk; and critically evaluate budgets and schedules. You'll apply these insights and practical skills to project situations through individual and group exercises.

Specifically, you learn to:
	Break large or complex efforts into manageable assignments, including the proper use of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
	Plan, estimate, schedule, and budget work
	Measure and control cost, schedule, and technical performance
	Monitor, document, and report project progress and problems
	Manage changes and re-plan work when necessary
	Establish and use contingency allowances wisely
	Win management support and obtain necessary resources
	Ensure customer and management satisfaction
	Anticipate and manage risk
	Simultaneously manage multiple projects and activities

Key Topics

Principles of Project Management
	Define projects and project management
	Understand the project manager’s roles and responsibilities
	Keep your team focused on the project’s objectives
	Manage stakeholders’ expectations

Planning the Project
	Identify project objectives
	Analyze and establish project requirements
	Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
	Schedule the tasks and key milestones
	Utilize precedence analysis for scheduling
	Create the task relationship network
	Identify and manage the critical path
	Cost estimating techniques
	Develop detailed budgets and resource allocation plans
	Select appropriate software project management tools

Exercise: Project planning simulation

Managing the Project
	Key elements in executing the project plan
	Anticipate and manage project risk
	Identify and manage the critical chain
	Measure, monitor, and report project progress
	Improve and manage project communications
	Manage customer requirements and changes
	Control work-in-progress

Exercise: Apply the principles and tools to actual participant situations

Building and Leading an Effective Project Team
	Properly assign people to project tasks
	Effectively lead teams
	Obtain continued management support to maintain team resources
	Motivate the team to perform at the highest level
	Manage ‘virtual teams’

Exercise: Manage project personnel through difficult situations

Project Organization
	How organizations influence project performance: power, politics, policies
	Organizing through the product life cycle
	Projects in the corporate organizational structure: project, functional, matrix
	Organizing your project
	Managing projects in different cultures and various industries

Case study/exercise: Project leadership and organization culture

Special Applications
	Managing multiple projects
	‘Virtual’ projects
	Subcontract management
	Phase-gated projects
	Special participant topics
	Establishing and using a Project Management Office
	Applying project management practices in diverse industries and departments

Instructor: Chris Christensen
Fee: 2008 - $1945
Credits: 2.25 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
               22.5 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
CPE Credit Information
Field of Study: Management Advisory Services, Social Environment of Business
Program Level: Overview.
No prerequisites or advance preparation is required.
Instructional Method: Group-Live offering
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits: 27
Dates: May 19-21, September 8-10, December 10-12, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 5:00pm 1st Day; 8:00am - 5:00pm 2nd Day; 8:00am - 4:00pm 3rd Day
Program Coordinator: Judy Donohue, 626.395.4045

We have an expanded certificate program for in-depth project mastery. To learn more, click here.

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