Project Management Tools 'N Techniques® (3 days)
Why This Course?
Faster, cheaper, better. Projects can be more successful: better
planned, higher quality, and more responsive than ever before. The effective
Project Manager must be able to develop better strategies, work plans,
estimates and schedules. And, simply planning a successful project is
merely half the job. You also need attentive tracking, status reporting
and change management to assure success.
This 3-day workshop blends five modules from our Modular Project Management
program. It provides practical tools and techniques for planning and managing
the vital signs of project success, using content discussion, a series
of exercises and case study application. Participants gain classroom experience
with today's best approaches for planning, estimating, scheduling and
tracking projects, in order to bring them in on time, within budget and
with high quality.
 Truncated Learning
Objectives (contact us for the full set)
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Discuss the vital signs a Project Manager
manages; begin a project successfully, defining the business problem
or opportunity, performing early estimates, setting resource requirements
and a preliminary schedule. |
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Use the Work Breakdown Structure in a
teambuilding process to organize and define a phase's delegatable
work packages; describe the needed roles in a project, and their impact
on quality. |
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Discuss the characteristics of a really
good activity-level estimate; identify the unique benefits of Assumptions
Based Estimating; use different levels of effort and duration estimating
methods to improve communication of the factors that affect estimates. |
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Produce more reliable and useful project
schedules, using PERT and Gantt charts to show ways to get any project
done faster and improve the use of available staff. |
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Apply a tracking method that produces
useful reports and provides advance notice of problems; control change
while retaining responsiveness to your customer; bring projects to
successful closure and identify ways to evaluate the results. |
Audience
This workshop meets the needs of Project Managers and leaders of medium
to large projects: those lasting three months to two years in duration.
The content is similar to our 4 day workshop, but omits the topics in
that course that deal with management style, leadership, teambuilding
and interpersonal skills.
Course
Outline (3 days)
1. Initial Planning
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Today's Challenges; The Vital Signs of
Successful Projects; The Document of Understanding |
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Defining the Problem or Opportunity; Setting
Project Scope and Objectives |
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Early Project Estimating; Project Type
Analysis; Project Life Cycle Phases and Deliverables |
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Establishing Project Duration and Milestones |
2. Phase Structuring
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A Phased Planning Approach; Identify Activities
For Project Phases |
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Organize Using Work Breakdown Structures;
Roles and Responsibilities in the Team |
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Project Organization & Support; Project
Manager Role; Planning Project Management Activities |
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Delegation and Ownership;Quality and Customer Involvement;
Quality Reviews |
3. Activity-Level Estimating
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Attributes of Good Estimates; The Factors
That Make Estimates Wrong |
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Levels of Estimating Rigor; Assumptions
Based Effort Estimating |
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Developing Duration Estimates; Guidelines
For Estimating Project Management Time |
4. Phase Scheduling
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Precedence Analysis: How To Get Any Phase
Done Faster; Evaluating the Trade-Offs |
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Gantt Charts For Resource Analysis and
Refined Project Scheduling; Other Charting Tools |
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Today's Project Management Software Support;
Improved Scheduling Summary |
5. Project Control
and Closure
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Tracking the Vital Signs; Components of
an Ideal Project Tracking System |
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Minimum-Effort Project Tracking Methods:
Quality, Duration, Effort and Assumptions |
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Project Progress and Status Reporting |
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Controlling Change and Managing Customer
Satisfaction |
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Six Different Ways to Successfully End
A Project; Project Closure; Criteria for Post-Project Evaluation |
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Evaluating Project Success; The Final Exam |
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