This 3-day course will lift your career to the next level.
With this hands-on course, you’ll pique your knowledge with
an advanced level of professionalism. Advanced Project Management
goes beyond the basics of project management and into the skills
needed to keep your career progressing and you ahead of your
industry.
Who Should Attend
(Attendees in this course must be
past participants of our Introduction to Project Management
Skills seminar)
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Experienced Project
Leaders, Program Managers, Product Managers and
Executives from
every industry, organization or government institution.
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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
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Bringing organization
to a project
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Planning a project and
developing baselines
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Allocating resources
across several projects
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Monitoring milestones
and the earned value concept
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Creating Status reports
and briefing all levels of management
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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