Formerly known as Supervision IV: Project Management
Project Management is one of the fastest growing professional disciplines in North America and this is a "beginner" class that walks anyone responsible for projects through the tools of project success. It was designed to reduce anxiety of the beginner and to maximize project performance with a practical, easy methodology. Tools utilized are Charter, Gantt Chart, Risk Matrix, Variances, Post Mortem and Lessons Learned.
This course provides participants with:
- Project management terminology
- Identification of the major stakeholders
- Ways to manage the basic elements of a project -- resources, time & money
- Planning for high quality projects that are on-time and on-budget
- Project management teams and processes
- The difference between "program" management and "project" management
- How to get rid of scope creepage and resource leakage
- How to write a charter and deliverables
- How to create a do-able schedule and a Gantt Chart application
- Introduction to risk and the risk matrix
- How to get and keep commitments from project members
- How to deal with difficult project members
- How to run an effective project meeting
- How to conduct a Post Mortem and Lessons Learned
Students will participate in a project of their choice. The project can be a work or home project, but must be completed in the five-week class timeframe. It is recommended that you come to class with a project idea in mind.
Who Should Attend
- Executives
- Portfolio Managers
- Project Program and Project Managers
- Functional Managers and Team Managers
- Anyone involved in trying to implement a solution in a complex environment
- Anyone responsible for corrective/preventative initiatives
Learning Objectives
- Help beginning project managers implement projects
- To be able to work with sponsors, customers and project members in an effective, knowledgeable manner
- Improved your chaos control skills
- How to engage and get buy-in from your stakeholders
- Break down your project workload into manageable segments
- Avoid common project manager mistakes