Due to Covid-19 safety restrictions PhoenixTS will temporarily be unable to provide food to our students who attend class at our Training Center; however, our Break Areas are currently open where students will find a constant supply of Coffee, Tea and Water. Students may bring their own lunch and snacks to eat in our breakrooms or at their seat in the classroom or eat out at one of the many nearby restaurants.
Course Overview
This 3-day, instructor-led course teaches an applications-oriented understanding of issues you must confront. This training
provides students with an understanding of:
- Strategies for dealing effectively with team members
- Managing and facilitating project meetings
- Techniques for dealing with contractors
- Guidelines for setting up a project office
Schedule
Currently, there are no public classes scheduled. Please contact a Phoenix TS Training Consultant to discuss hosting a private class at 240-667-7757.
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Course Outline
Introduction to Project Management
- What is a project?
- What is project management?
- How do you define success?
- The project management system
- Project management and ISO 9000
- Project management and Six Sigma
- The Lewis method of managing projects
The Project Management Institute and the PMBOK
- Process versus knowledge areas
- The five project processes
- Knowledge areas
The Role of Project Manager
- Its all about people!
- Do you really want to manage?
- Making your career decision
How to Achieve High-Performance Project Management
- The High-Performance Project Management Model
- The need for a new approach
- Stages of development
Whole Brain Project Management
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- Thinking styles
- Working motivation and the HBDI profile
- Team dynamics
- The balanced scorecard
- Creativity and profiles
Headless-Chicken Projects and Hot to Prevent Them
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- The cold, hard facts
- The causes
- Mission and vision
- Problems, problems
- Defining closed-ended problems
- Defining opened-ended problems
- The fallacy of project management assumptions
Developing Project Strategy
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- What is strategy?
- Generating and choosing the correct strategy
- Putting it all together
Implementation Planning
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- Mistakes in planning
- Development the work breakdown structure
- Estimating time, cost, and resource requirements
- Clarifying role and responsibilities
- Gaining commitment from resource providers
- Developing the project budget
Project Scheduling
- The basics of scheduling
- Software capabilities
- Resource allocation
Managing Project Communications
- Communication management processes
Managing Risks
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- The risk management process
- Risk quantification
Project Control
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- Measuring progress
- The pitfalls of reporting schedule only
- Tracking progress using earned value analysis
- Responding to deviations
- Using graphs to track progress and forecast trends
- Using spreadsheets to track progress
- Alternatives to earned value
- Project change control
Conducting Product Reviews
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- Reviews
- Displaying progress
- Process reviews
- Conducting process or lessons-learned reviews
- The process review report
- Design reviews
Improving Project Processes
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- Identifying processes
- Principles of process improvement
- Operational definitions of problems
Managing and Facilitating Meetings
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- Meeting management guidelines
- Marathon meetings
- Important roles in meetings
- Some guidelines for project meetings
- More pointers for status meetings
Closing Out the Project
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- Administrative closure
- The final lessons-learned review
- Personnel issues in project closing
Managing Multiple Projects
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- Project, task, priority?
- Personal effectiveness
Improving Your Effectiveness
- The psychology of achievement
- The laws that govern out lives
- Self-concept
- Programming your mind for success
- Behave as-if
- Mental rehearsal
- Affirmation and goals
- Relax
- Autogenic conditioning
- A word of caution
Working with Senior Managers
- Helping your manager meet his needs
- Educating managers about project management
- Applying the HBDI profile to working with senior managers
- Making presentations to executives
- Understanding your manager’s point of view
- Find a mentor
- Final suggestion
Dealing More Effectively with People
- Working with your project team
- Motivation
- Negotiating and influencing
- Dealing with politics
- Skill building
Trends in Project Management
- Virtual project teams
- Technology: for better or worse
Due to Covid-19 safety restrictions PhoenixTS will temporarily be unable to provide food to our students who attend class at our Training Center; however, our Break Areas are currently open where students will find a constant supply of Coffee, Tea and Water. Students may bring their own lunch and snacks to eat in our breakrooms or at their seat in the classroom or eat out at one of the many nearby restaurants.