Course Description

This 5-days course covers all the aspects necessary to help the participants deliver smart project management solutions with higher quality, greater value and better accountability. Based-on real-world examples it covers everything, from defining scope and gathering requirements, to planning and budgeting, to utilizing scheduling and control tools.

Course Goal:

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve his project management skills

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

1. Set practical and attainable goals for his project.
2. Set realistic schedules that he can meet
3. Develop and implement a project plan
4. Save time and resources
5. Cope with budget and time constraints
6. Delegate in a fair and practical way within the project team

Course Outline:

• Foundations for Success: The Core Concepts

1. Concepts and Terminology
2. The Need for Project Management
3. Functions of Management
4. Life-Cycle Processes
5. Knowledge Area

• Project Teams Leadership

1. The Functions of Leadership
2. Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
3. Work Supervising
4. Behavior and Rewards

• Project Scope and Requirements

1. Project Documentation
2. Critical Success Factors and Critical Success Measures
3. In-Scope and Out-of-Scope Conditions
4. Right Tools and Processes to Define Project Scope

• Project Work Plan

1. The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
2. Project Templates
3. Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
4. Skills Needed to Achieve the Work

• Task Dependencies and Network Logic Diagrams

1. Logical Dependencies
2. Logic Network
3. The Critical Path

• Work Estimation

1. Duration for Project Tasks
2. Labor Content for Project Tasks
3. Price Out the WBS
4. Estimate Network

• Integrated Project Plan

1. IPP: Creation, Documentation and approval
2. The Plan Communication to Others

• Projects Monitoring and Control

1. The Status of All Plan Parameters
2. Current and Future Variances
3. Reporting
4. Corrective Action

• Project Closure: Documenting Lessons Learned.

1. Close Out a Project
2. Final Report for the Project
3. “Lessons Learned”—Prevention, Detection, and Recovery

Who Can Benefit?

1. R&D professionals, engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators, project engineers, facility engineers, plant managers and anyone else who administers technical projects.
2. Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training.