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Dates
Dec 10, 2008 - Dec 12, 2008
Mar 04, 2009 - Mar 06, 2009
Jun 01, 2009 - Jun 03, 2009
Sep 09, 2009 - Sep 11, 2009
Dec 01, 2009 - Dec 03, 2009
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| Cost (2008): |
$1,945.00 |
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$1,995.00 |
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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.
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Contents
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Who Should Attend
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Instructor
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Hours & Credits
- 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
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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
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| Senior managers, project managers, and technical professionals wanting to improve their personal influence and effectiveness. |
Chris Christensen
Dec 10, 2008 - Dec 12, 2008
Mar 04, 2009 - Mar 06, 2009
Jun 01, 2009 - Jun 03, 2009
Sep 09, 2009 - Sep 11, 2009
Dec 01, 2009 - Dec 03, 2009
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Chris Christensen
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Chris Christensen is a certified Project Management Professional specializing in advising, coaching and training executives, managers, and senior staff to more effectively manage their business with a focus on project management, futures research, quality improvement, product development, and strategic planning. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Quality Engineer, and Certified Quality Manager. Mr. Christensen teaches the Successful Project Management course at Caltech Industrial Relations Center, as well as Project Risk Management in the project management certificate program.
For over 30 years, he was a project and program manager in the high technology electronic component manufacturing and systems integration industries. His projects developed air defense, intelligence data fusion, radar imaging, and satellite communication systems.
Mr. Christensen has worked with Ablestik Adhesives, The Aerospace Corporation, The Boeing Company, BP-Arco Service Stations, Courtaulds Aircraft Lacquers, Delco Machine and Gear, the Disney Store, Glendale Memorial Hospital, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, Havas Software Development (now Vivendi Universal), Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles Times, Martin-Marietta Aerospace, Pilkington Aerospace Transparencies, RAND Corporation, Raytheon, Southern California Edison, Tosco Petroleum Refineries and Pipelines, TRW Space Systems Group, and Unified Western Grocers.
He holds an MBA, an MS in engineering, and a BS in physics.
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 3 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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CEU :
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2.25 |
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PDU :
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22.5 |
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CPE :
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25 |
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The California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the |
National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.
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Caltech Industrial Relations Center is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI® R.E.P.).
PMI and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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Comments from Past Participants
"Chris is an excellent instructor. I could not wait to see what he was going to show us next ... I appreciated the exposure to new tools for better project management and insights on how to manage one of the most important components of any project: people."
Edward Merlo
Mixed Signal Products Operations
Rockwell Scientific
“There are so many valuable aspects of this program, I don’t know where to start! The concept of how to plan a project will greatly help me in my job. I thought the content, presentation and materials offered were great and Caltech IRC’s administration of the course was excellent.”
Ed Rogin
Product Marketing Manager
Siemens Energy & Automation
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