Introduction
This training session is for experienced project managers to examine advanced project and program management techniques, building on the basics to help ensure success even for large and risky projects and programs. This program stresses project management processes as an integral part of organizational culture and what senior management must do to support it and make it successful within an organization. This course aligns with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continues to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.
Learn the newest concepts and techniques for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints (Critical Chain Project Management), and other advanced concepts can help you develop solid, reliable, efficient and effective project plans.
Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network affects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks.
Course Objectives of Effective Project Management
- Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle
- Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation
- Better handling of difficult vendors
- Improved time and cost estimates for risky and challenging projects
- Reduce cost and schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques
- Accurately report progress even on complex and risky projects
- Improve stakeholder communication and involvement
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
How you will benefit:
- Understand and master the people skills needed for effective project management
- Develop skills to communicate horizontally across functional levels and vertically with senior levels of management
- Effectively define project objectives and assignments
- Effectively utilize scheduling methods and tools to support project control and analysis
- Develop and utilize risk management, contingency planning, and change control
- Effectively prioritize objectives and assignments
And you will learn:
- Advanced tools for scheduling and control
- Planning for contingencies
- Aligning projects to the enterprise by defining project drivers and considerations
- Skills to enhance teamwork and managing conflict
- To select, develop and evaluate Project Managers
- Purchasing, supply chain management, and contract administration
- Management of supplier relationships
- Optimization planning
- Strategies to survive in a resource-constrained environment
Course Outlines of Effective Project Management
Day 1:
- Introduction
- Why do we do projects?
- What is a project?
- What is project management?
- Project Delivery Systems / Life-cycle Models
- Initiating
Day 2:
- Project selection
- Qualitative techniques
- Quantitative techniques - Economic Evaluation
- Selecting the right project manager
- Project Objectives and Stakeholder assessment - who wants what?
- Identification of stakeholders
- Stakeholder analysis
- Management of stakeholders
Day 3:
- Planning
- Task Characteristics and Duration Assessment
- Planning and Scheduling Methods
- Critical Path vs Critical Chain Scheduling
- Resource Allocation Methods
- Time-Cost Trade-off
- Lead/Lag Scheduling
- Critical Chain scheduling
Day 4:
- Proactive Project Risk Management
- What do we mean by risk?
- Risk vs. uncertainty
- Attitudes towards risk
- Risk identification, factors and sources
- Risk analysis approaches
- Qualification and quantification of probability and impact
- Dealing with subjective elements of risk
- Risk strategies
Day 5:
- Executing
- Lean Construction Strategies
- Staff Acquisition
- Team Development and Motivation
- Leadership vs Management
- Management styles and Conflict Handling
- Monitoring and controlling
- Using Earned Value to report accomplishment
- Implementing Risk strategies
- Project Closing
About Paris
Lying on the River Seine, Paris is commonly referred to as the city for lovers, but it's actually a fantastic place for anyone to visit and explore. It's full of history, art, literature and amazing architecture for starters, but is also well known as being home to high fashion, which makes it a popular shopping destination. Visitors to the French Capital will find both high-end designer stores and quirky boutiques. The attractions of Paris range for art museums to shopping to simply taking a walk and soaking up the atmosphere. To top it all off, Paris has plenty of superb food and drink, in case there weren't already enough reasons to travel to Paris.
Things to do and places to visit in Paris
Anyone who travels to Paris is in for a treat, as it is a beautiful city full of atmosphere. Many of Paris' attractions are world-famous, but it's also a city where you can find hidden gems. Taking a flight to Paris for a short visit is really like visiting a number of different cities, as all of its neighbourhoods, or arrondissements, have their own distinct character. Examples include the medieval Latin Quarter and the bohemian Marais. Each and every one is worth exploring.
Great things to do in Paris include:
- Checking out the views from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- Seeing renowned masterpieces, including the Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
- Taking a tour of the impressive, albeit slightly creepy, Paris Catacombs.
- Marvelling at the beautiful Notre Dame Cathedral.
- Browsing the designer stores around the Champs-Elysees.
- Munching snails in one of the city's haute cuisine eateries.
- Visiting the graves of luminaries including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison at Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
- Admiring the imposing Arc de Triomphe.
- Wandering around the boutiques of the Marais district.
- Watching the famous Paris St-Germain football team play.
- Taking in the Impressionist art at the Musee D'Orsay.
- Watching the world go by from a cafe terrace.
- Visiting the distinctive Centre Georges Pompidou.