Project Management Tools and Techniques
4-Day Business Class
PM001 Focuses on basic principles across the entire project management body of knowledge. Covers key concepts from initiation to final closeout. Your employees will learn how to:

Develop project plans and prepare project charters and schedules

Create work breakdown structures

Identify critical paths

Review advantages and disadvantages of project structures

Recognize project stakeholder roles

Apply estimating methodologies

Effectively manage conflict by selecting appropriate strategies focused on achieving shared goals

Mitigate project risks by maximizing riskmanagement plans

Establish baselines, manage changes, employ earned value techniques, monitor progress and update project plans

Close projects effectively, and evaluate lessons learned

Project Management Office
2-Day Business Class
PM002 Implementing Project Management Office, your employees are designed to achieve quick results in project-focused efforts to ensure consistent practice throughout your organization, enterprise-wide. It is the focal point for portfolio
management, best practices, consulting, mentoring and training. Your staff learns how to continuously improve enterprise project management processes. This course main focus will be to:

Determine key characteristics of the PMO to discover various ways of achieving project success.

Perform periodic evaluations; recognize when a project is out of control, and how to recover it.

Complete a competency analysis and implement a competency model.

Define the five levels of project management maturity and the responsibilities of the PMO at each level.

Establish metrics and determine the role of the PMO at each level of project management maturity.

In the end, they will understand steps needed to implement a PMO and effectively position it within your company.

Especially suited to those who wish to pursue a career as a project manager.

Virtual Teams
2-Day Business Class
PM003 With the introduction of the web, the “virtual team” is now nearly universal in global enterprises. It represents a dramatic change in how your workforce performs. Your employees will learn how to exploit virtual teams to reach your company’s goals. They will acquire ways to achieve success in motivation, communication, collaborative leadership, commitment, and conflict resolution. Integrate aspects of traditional and virtual teams, and recognize the advantages and disadvantages of virtual teams to assess success and determine team maturity.

Project Management Metrics
2-Day Business Class
PM004 Sound metrics practices are keys to project management activities—planning, monitoring, and control. Metrics serve as barometers of project maturity, providing indicators of quality, adequacy, progress, processes, and products. Using metrics, your staff learns to build on the collective capabilities of your enterprise to achieve its goals, produce and deliver your company’s products and services. Your employees learn formal metrics systems, not only to measure cost performance, but also to track organizational, team maturity and team member behavior. Personnel learn how to define and establish metrics based on different characteristics, and quantify project and project manager performance.

Project Portfolio Management
2-Day Business Class
PM005 Exploiting principles of portfolio management, employees learn to identify projects at your company that best serve your corporate goals. Formal portfolio management may lead to postponing or even decommissioning some projects that, after study, emerge as low priority. Your staff learns how to evaluate, prioritize, and select new projects. Personnel discover the difference between a program and a portfolio, highlighting the objectives of a portfolio management system. They identify components of a portfolio management system, enumerating important indices, and establish a priority model.

PMP® Refresher
4-Day Test Preparation Business Class
PM006 Participants learn the essential components of project management so they are fully prepared to take the PMP® exam. This comprehensive PMP® test preparation course emphasizes key concepts of project management, reviews sample test questions formatted in the style of the PMP® exam. Working individually and in groups, they perform exercises in which they apply the most critical concepts. They learn to explain the triple constraints of project management and the customer-driven nature of projects. Participants learn how to identify the five project management processes and the nine project management knowledge areas. They define a project life cycle and learn to recognize key stakeholders. t

How to Make Your Projec Compelling to Top Management
2-Day Business Class
PM007 Many line managers often find it difficult to present their proposed projects in ways that top executives find compelling. Discuss methods to transform your projects into strategically justifiable objectives that will be supported and funded. Learn how to prepare systematically organized requests in strategic ways so that they will be measured in support of your organization’s value. Explore case study examples plus those drawn from your experience to help you visualize how you can achieve success with your projects at your company.

Project Deliverables Planning
2-Day Business Class
PM008 Employees learn basic concepts of a deliverable-oriented approach in which outcomes are formally accepted (verified) at termination. Participants will learn how to organize a project plan, employ techniques needed to create a plan and enhance project monitoring and control. They will establish how to cover quality management during project execution and the requirements for scope verification during project termination. They will employ cause-and-effect dependencies to define the work effort and understand resource assignments required to produce authorized outputs.

Project Work-effort Planning
2-Day Business Class
PM009 Designed to help your staff highlight the use of standard tools to describe their work effort, employing scope statements and network diagrams. They evaluate their scheduling goals against known scheduling interdependencies and determine resulting critical paths. They employ the precedence diagramming method (PDM) as well as the critical path method (CPM) techniques. They will learn to identify and correct structural ambiguities and obvious errors.

Project Resource Planning
2-Day Business Class
PM010 Participants learn how to maximize standard tools to schedule resources to complete their work. They cover the effects of known resource constraints that affect how long it should take to complete projects. Participants gain experience in determining when each task should be scheduled. Your staff implements a Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) and identifies and corrects structural ambiguities and obvious errors in resource assignments. They perform scheduling calculations, resource leveling, and critical path compression.

Monitoring and Controlling Project Performance
2-Day Business Class
PM011 Utilizing the Project Management Information System (PMIS) to monitor and control implementation, participants assess performance against cost, time, and scope. They learn to employ macro-variance analysis to control overall project performance. They monitor data to identify exceptions that may require corrective action.

Intermediate Project Management Concepts
3-Day Business Class
PM012 With this three-day workshop, participants gain a common framework of project management concepts across your enterprise. Employees perform exercises and use MS-Project and MS-Office to justify a project and make missionfocused decisions about the outcomes and the efforts required. They create and evaluate a critical path network using the CPM scheduling technique. They design a realistic work schedule to monitor progress against plans and use a storyboard to create a Project Scorecard report.