Course Description

This 5-days course covers knowledge and practice in managing technical projects related to R&D, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and more.  

Course Goal:

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve his skills to manage technical projects

Course Objectives:

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

1. Identify potential problems and avoid them using troubleshooting techniques
2. Track projects more effectively
3. Create status reports that show top management where budgeting, scheduling and manpower trends are headed
4. Cope with tight schedules

Course Outline:

• Benefits of Project Management
• Time, Cost and Scope

1. Time-cost-scope tradeoffs and negotiations
2. Gathering and documenting requirements
3. Differentiating among product, process and project requirements

• Project Leadership

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

• 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

• Network Logic/Dependency Analysis

1. Network diagrams
2. Key dependency relationships
3. Dealing with overlapping tasks

• Work Estimation

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

• Milestone Plan

1. The spreadsheet metaphor
2. Project plans: asset and resource utilization, cost or budget, milestones
3. Project management software examples

• Projects Monitoring and Control

1. The change control process
2. Reporting project status and formats
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:

R&D professionals, engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators, project engineers, facility engineers, plant managers and anyone else who administers technical projects.

Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training.