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Project Management Tools and Techniques: The Basics for Success
Deliver projects on time and within budget. Here's a solid foundation of skills for non-technical and technical project managers.
Hundreds of managers have turned to this best-selling seminar to help them deliver smarter project solutions ...with higher quality, greater value and better accountability. You'll cover everything, from defining scope and gathering requirements...to planning and budgeting...to utilizing scheduling and control tools.
Plus you'll get lots of hands-on practice, exercises and real-world examples...
Who Should Attend?
Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training.
How You Will Benefit:
- Set practical goals for your projects—goals you can meet, regardless of "hitches"
- Set realistic schedules that are right on target
- Develop a project plan—and get that plan implemented
- Stay on top of schedules, workloads and “people problems”
- Break down a project into smaller, less intimidating tasks
- Save time and energy by “building in flexibility” rather than “putting out fires”
- Cope with squeezed budgets and stolen time
- Delegate in a fair and practical way within the project team
- Build your credibility with top management
What You Will Cover:
Concepts of Project Management
- Benefits of project management
- Characteristics of a well-defined project
- Project tasks and the path they follow
Scope Definition and Project Requirements
- Defining scope in terms of business, technical, operational objectives
- Time-cost-scope tradeoffs and negotiations
- Gathering and documenting requirements
- Critical success factors and measures: project metrics
- Project risk management
- The Project Requirements Document as a decision-making tool
Project Leadership
- The central role of effective communications
- The project manager as motivator and problem-solver
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Its Detailed Work Packages
- Matching project objectives and methodology
- Using guides and templates, checklists and appropriate standards
- WBS: a planning, scheduling, staffing, budgeting and control tool
Project Scheduling: Network Logic and Dependency Analysis
- The structure, functions, format and conventions of a logic network
- How to construct a network diagram, precedence diagramming, arrow diagramming
- Defining the project's critical path, free float and total float
Project Scheduling: Estimating the Work
- Creating realistic and achievable estimates
- Defining estimates...types of estimates
- Targets vs. estimates vs. commitments
The Integrated Project Plan
- Project schedule displayed as Gantt Chart, network diagram or spreadsheet
- Project resource utilization, cost or budget and milestone plans
Project Control and Reporting
- Five sources of change to project scope
- How to conduct a net impact assessment
- Determining variances from the approved plan...the change control board
- Earned value overview
- Reporting project status and formats
Project Closure
- Preparing a useful and brief final report
- Documenting lessons learned
- Securing final approvals and buy-ins
- Organizational, contractual and financial closures
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