Join other project managers from around the country for this lively, highly interactive, online event! You’ll explore today’s most popular, industry-accepted practices and get acquainted with the essential tools you’ll need to confidently approach every project with a plan for success.
Filled with innovative insights, current industry examples and engaging exercises, this drilled-down, instructor-led crash course introduces you to the fundamentals of initiating, managing and executing a project. It also provides the real-world practice you need to effectively guide project teams and manage stakeholders through successful project completion every time.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Get a project off the ground with energy and full support
- Confidently recommend proven project management processes
- Create a solid plan for project success using widely used key techniques
- Be prepared with a toolkit including waterfall, agile and hybrid solutions for adaptability
- Effectively guide project teams and manage stakeholders through project completion
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Program time: 3 hours
Session 1: Project Management Methodologies
- Recognize the benefits of identifying a project management methodology
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of various project management processes
- Discuss how to communicate a chosen methodology with a project team
- Determine which project management process would best suit your organization
Session 2: Foundations of Planning
- Discuss the importance of making a business case how to achieve buy-in
- Learn how to identify contingencies to mitigate, retain and transfer risk
- Describe how to identify and document project relationships among project tasks
- Explain how to analyze tasks, requirements and constraints to develop a project schedule
Session 3: Executing and Monitoring Performance
- Describe how each of the 3 change request options would impact a project
- Discuss the performance advantages of written and verbal reporting
- Relate project documents to communicating status and progress measurement
- Participate in group activities to practice key project management skills