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Project Management Courses with CPM Resources
We provide quality Project Management Training to organizations of all sizes.
Public seminars are offered to meet the needs of individuals and small businesses. Our Scottsdale public seminars are held at:
7047 E. Greenway Parkway
Suite 250
Scottsdale, AZ
Courses are also offered at client sites. Call for an individualized price quote.
Upcoming Courses:
Fundamentals of Project Management (2 days)
July 17-18, 2008
$495 per person.
Concepts and Frameworks
- Define nine knowledge areas of project management
- Discuss four integrated phases of project management
- Identify common project parameters and constraints
- Introduce basic project management terms
- Discuss organizational structures and influences
Project Initiation and Definition
- Discuss project manager leader selection and project initiation process
- Link project objectives to business strategies
- Identify project stakeholders
- Distinguish between stakeholder roles and responsibilities
- Define stakeholder roles and responsibilities and discuss collaborative
- Develop a stakeholder communication plan
- Discuss strategies to develop team buy-in and ownership
- Discuss Project Definition Document components
- Develop a scope of work (SOW) to establish the project baseline plan
- Document project constraints, assumptions, and performance and completion criteria
- Describe three issues causing 'scope creep' and apply three effective mitigation strategies
- Estimate high-level project budget
- Produce formal documentation for this phase and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
Project Planning
- Develop a task-based work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Discuss estimating techniques
- Practice estimating bottom-up technique (forecast effort and duration estimates)
- Discuss different project diagrams
- Develop a project network by sequencing tasks using dependency analysis and logical relationships
- Calculate the forward pass, backward pass, and float
- Identify the critical path
- Develop the project schedule or Gantt chart
- Fast-track and crash a project timeline
- Identify and quantify risks and develop risk-mitigating strategies in a risk management plan
- Estimate high-level project budget
- Produce formal documentation for this phase and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
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Project Execution: Tracking, Controlling, Reporting, and Closeout (2 days)
August 7-8, 2008
$495 per person
- Learn how to execute and control a project using project execution, controlling, and reporting techniques
- Discuss professional responsibility as a project manager
- Develop strategies for dealing with stakeholder interests
- Define, measure, control, and report on team and project performance
- Develop strategies for taking corrective action
- Evaluate effectiveness of corrective action
- Respond to risk event triggers (execute the Risk Plan)
- Practice redefining the baseline critical path, estimates, schedules, budgets, resource allocation, and scope
- Discuss common obstacles to project tracking and reporting
- Discuss issues related to communicating to different stakeholders
- Distinguish among status, progress, and forecasting reports and learn how to choose the most appropriate report for each stakeholder
- Identify essential elements for successful project meetings
- Discuss change control issues.
- Obtain formal acceptance of deliverables
- Document lessons learned
- Archive project documents and records
- Identify and discuss team develop issues related to cross-functional team dynamics, motivating the team, power, politics, and conflict
- Discuss the importance of formally closing projects, celebrating successes, and completing lessons learned sessions
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Directing and Leading Cross-Functional Project Teams (2 days)
August 21-22, 2008
$495 per person
- Distinguish between management and leadership
- Develop your leadership philosophy
- Create an evidenced-based project management process
- Develop competencies in conflict management and influencing skills
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