Introduction:

In today’s climate of global competition, tight financing, and demanding clientele, top performance is essential for business survival. Projects are an integral part of any business, and include construction, information technology, manufacturing, petrochemical, and others. Too many of these projects suffer from cost overruns and schedule slippages. This program presents practical tips and state-of-the-art tools and techniques for the successful completion of complex projects. In this program you will:

·       Enhance your leadership and management skills

·       Engage in new project management paradigms

·       Sustain project momentum

·       Establish effective cost schedule control systems

·       Implement advanced techniques for tracking project progress

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

·        Learn advanced project management tools for planning and control

·        Evaluate various project delivery approaches for construction

·        Learn advanced project planning, scheduling and control skills

·        Lead multiple projects simultaneously

·        Learn how to set up teams; motivate, delegate and negotiate

·        Learn how to tailor reports to summarize appropriate information

·        Learn how to estimate effort, duration and cost of a project

·        Achieve measurable performance improvements

·        Generate staff ownership and responsibility for change

·        Handle proactive and reactive techniques for project management

Who Should Attend?

Project Managers, Associate Project Managers, Project Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Managers, Senior Personnel, Oil & Gas Engineers, Civil Engineers, IT Personnel, and those employees involved in process improvement teams, decision makers and Business Planners, IT Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Project Analysts Project Leaders, Senior Project Managers, Product Managers, Program Managers, Project Sponsors, and project team members

Course Outline:

Project Delivery, Financial Analysis and Scope

·       Project Delivery Systems

·       Cash Flow Analysis

·       Review of Project Economic Evaluation

·       Project Objectives and Stakeholder assessment - who wants what?

·       Communications and Change control - eliminating scope creep

·       Quality planning, Assurance and Control

Project Scope Management

·        Plan Scope Management

·        Collect Requirements

·        Define Scope

·        Create WBS

·        Validate Scope

·        Control Scope

Project Time Management

·        Plan Schedule Management

·        Define Activities

·        Sequence Activities

·        Estimate Activity Resources

·        Estimate Activity Durations

·        Develop Schedule

·        Control Schedule

Project Cost Management

·        Plan Cost Management

·        Estimate Cost

·        Determine Budget

·        Control Costs

Project Quality Management

·        Plan Quality

·        Perform Quality Assurance

·        Perform Quality Control

Project Human Resource Management

·        Develop Human Resource Management

·        Acquire Project Team

·        Develop Project Team

·        Manage Project Team

Project Communications Management

·        Plan Communications Management

·        Manage Communications

·        Control Communications

Project Risk Management

·        Plan Risk Management

·        Identify Risks

·        Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

·        Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

·        Plan Risk Responses

·        Control Risks

Project Procurement Management

·        Plan Procurement Management

·        Conduct Procurements

·        Control Procurements

·        Close Procurements

Advanced Project Management Technologies

·        Advanced Scheduling

·        Parametric Estimating

·        Solid Modeling and CAD standards

·        Personal Digital Assistants

·        Discrete Event Simulation

·        Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

·        Global Positioning System (GPS)

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