Advanced Project Management On-Site Training

Who Should Attend (Attendees in this course must be past participants of our Introduction to Project Management Skills seminar)

• Experienced Project Leaders, Program Managers, Product Managers and Executives from every industry, organization or government institution.

• Every Manager who is experienced in the ever changing role of the project and who wants to hone their professional skills.

 What will you cover

• Bringing organization to a project

• Planning a project and developing baselines

• Allocating resources across several projects

• Monitoring milestones and the earned value concept

• Creating Status reports and briefing all levels of management

• Project management support: Automated and administrative
  

1. Review of Project Management essentials

• Asses your knowledge of project management
• Essential management skills of Project management
• Problems and issues of project management

2. Characteristics of Successful Project Management

• Responsibilities of a Project Manager
• Leadership skills
• Skill requirements
• Personality and behavior
• Team Empowerment
• Balance and attitude

3. Human Factors Involved in Project Management

• Responsibility, authority and accountability
• Project management without using authority
• Organization and team building
• Performance appraisals of Project Managers and project team

4. Efficient Project Management Organization

• Project management and its role in an organization
• Developing a project organization
• An eternal conflict: functional vs. project
• Conflict resolution and evaluation
• Risk management

5. Defining a Project

• Defining the scope of a project
• The role of the client in project management
• Milestones in Project Performance
• Risk and contingency planning
• Legal and political issues

6. Planning a Project I: Determining a Task Baseline

• The role of a well developed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Approaches to estimating and developing WBS components
• Scheduling logic: Tradition vs. Innovation
• Planning task assignment
• Exercise: Task assignment