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Project Management
Project Management Basics
Whether you’re new to project management or looking for a refresher to kick up your skills to the next level, this dynamic, one-day course will get you quickly up to speed on the “must have” components of effective project management. Guided by the gold standard of project management, PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), you’ll learn the essential tools to manage any size project successfully. Come to class with a project idea to use in the exercises. By the end of the session, you’ll be ready to put a solid plan into action. Customized versions of this course are also available to meet your company’s needs.
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Time: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
PDHs: 7.0 | CEUs: 0.7
Price: $995
Learning Outcomes
• Understand project initiation documents
• Define and align scope of work
• Develop a work breakdown structure
• Understand schedule planning to include critical path and dependencies
• Assess risk and develop a risk plan
• Understand the use of lessons learned (after action reviews) for continuous improvement
Who Should Attend
• Engineers
• Developers
• Project managers
Associated Courses
• Introduction to Scrum
• Project Management
Associate
Benefits
• Improved teamwork and communication
• Ability to anticipate change and flexibility
• Lower project costs
• Improved customer satisfaction and business engagement
Scrum and Agile Project Management
Innovation breakthroughs often demand fast action. So how do you create a workplace culture that can nimbly and efficiently respond to changes? Scrum is a simple yet incredibly powerful set of principles and practices that can help your team deliver products in short cycles, unleashing fast feedback, continual improvement and rapid adaptation to change. In this intensive, interactive training, you’ll explore project management challenges and approaches within the Scrum and Agile framework and learn how to apply these strategies within your organization. Hands-on simulations will enhance your understanding of all facets of Scrum roles and benefits. You’ll leave ready to sprint toward success on your next project with insights on how to transform your organization.
Time: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
PDHs: 16 | CEUs: 1.6
Price: $1,445
Learning Outcomes
• Learn the fundamentals of Scrum and how to apply them to your work
• Discover how to use Agile methodology in plan-driven projects to help manage uncertainty
• Gain insight into the tradeoffs of adopting Agile or Scrum processes
• Navigate the cultural changes necessary to implement Scrum
• Get hands-on experience participating in a Scrum team
• Learn how to customize Scrum for specific types of projects
Who Should Attend
• Professionals who are new to project management
• Anyone who is looking to enhance their project management skills
Associated Course
• Project Management Basics
Benefits
• Learn how to use sponsorship and stakeholder engagement to boost project success
• Understand the project management life cycle and how to plan requirements and deliverables accordingly
• Develop essential tools to help you manage, communicate and problem solve through every stage of the process
Project Management Associate Certificate
Note: Project Management Basics or other work experience is a pre-requisite for this course.
Whether at home or at work, project management skills are essential for staying on target, minimizing stress and maximizing results. This accelerated course will arm you with the tools and techniques you need to knock your next project out of the park. You’ll learn key project management concepts, discover how to implement effective processes, and develop the leadership skills that will help you successfully plan, manage and deliver projects of any size and scope. The course combines the fundamentals of the PMBOK Process Groups and Knowledge Areas with practical, field-tested project management methods and strategies. After successfully completing the course, you’ll earn the Project Management Associate Certificate and be ready to tackle your next project with aplomb.
The course combines the fundamentals of the PMBOK Process Groups and
Time: 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
PDHs: 24 | CEUs: 2.4
Price: $2,150
Learning Outcomes
• Identify, estimate and schedule tasks required to execute a project on time
• Apply techniques for risk management and monitoring and controlling a project
• Assess project performance and address areas of continuous improvement
Who Should Attend
• Project managers leading cross-functional teams
• New project managers transitioning from team member to project manager
• Any project manager looking to enhance communication and effectiveness
• Project sponsors and department managers who are leading large projects or strategic initiatives
Associated Courses
• Managing Troubled Projects
• Portfolio and MultiProject Management
• Building a Culture of Communication
• Making Thinking Visible
• We’re All Different: Leveraging MBTI Styles in Project Teams
Benefits
• Stakeholder relationship management plans (not project management plans)
Getting Key Stakeholders to Support Your Project
If you want your project to succeed, you need to have buy-in, especially from your most influential stakeholders. Understand the power and influence of your project stakeholders so you can effectively develop strategies for productive project communications and learn to build communication strategies to handle even the most difficult stakeholders. Once you’ve mastered this art, you’ll be primed for success.
Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
Learning Outcomes
• Initiate and ensure active sponsorship of new projects
• Utilize influence maps to determine which stakeholders hold the most influence over your project
• Develop and practice strategies for engaging project stakeholders
• Understand best practices for running stage gate meetings
• Introduce dashboards for communicating project status, risk and issues
Who Should Attend
• Project managers responsible for leading multi-person or cross functional teams who are currently leading a project that is at risk of not meeting its goals
• Project managers who are leading a project in the execution phase and are at risk of any of the following:
• Estimated budget, schedule or scope will not be met
• Overall quality will not be acceptable
• Project customers will not be satisfied
• Project managers looking to proactively learn how to detect and course-correct a troubled project
Associated Courses
• Getting Key Stakeholders to Manage Your Project
• Portfolio and MultiProject Management
• Making Thinking Visible
• We’re All Different: Leveraging MBTI Styles in Project Teams
• Building a Culture of Communication
Benefits
• Understand and identify drivers of project failure
• Use tools to monitor if a project is in trouble
• Rapidly assess project health and identify the root cause of troubles
• Develop a project recovery plan
Managing Troubled Projects
Are you leading a project that seems like it’s doomed to fail? Are you constantly putting out fires on a project and it’s spiraling out of control? This course gives you tools and techniques to manage troubled projects and determine if they can be recovered. You’ll learn how to assess a project’s health, how to communicate project challenges to upper management, and when and how to save a project or just pull the plug.
Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
Immediate Takeaways
• Industry statistics report 59%-94% of projects fail to meet their goals
• The project manager is a key success factor in the recovery of projects.
• You the project manager must be able to communicate project status (both good or bad) and be in a position to recommend how to proceed and to influence support for corrective actions
• Research shows that when organizations take actions to recover troubled projects, they are highly successful. Almost three quarters (74%) of the troubled projects that underwent a recovery intervention in the past three years were recovered. (PM Solutions Research 2011)
Learning Outcomes
• Be able to tell if your project is healthy or if it is in trouble
• Diagnose the root cause of your project troubles
• Communicate with key stakeholders that your project is in trouble
• Determine if your project should be killed or what will be needed to revive it
• Develop a recovery plan for your project and prepare to gain support from key stakeholders for your plan
Who Should Attend
• Experienced project or program managers looking to refresh their team communication strategies
• Project managers who lead teams that have trouble communicating or resolving conflict
• Any team lead or team member who wants to improve their communication and interpersonal skills
Associated Courses
• Getting Key Stakeholders to Manage Your Project
• Portfolio and MultiProject Management
• Making Thinking Visible
• Building a Culture of Communication
• Project Management
Basics
Benefits
• Understanding behavior styles can lead to more effective communication and productive work within teams.
• Potential stressors and sources of conflict are uncovered, and mitigation strategies are developed.
• Teams produce results while enjoying cooperative collaborative working relationships.
We’re All Different: Leveraging MBTI Styles in Project Teams
What’s your type? And how does that differ from your teammates? This course will give you insights into various behavior styles that can impact perceptions and responses, enhancing your self-awareness and emotional intelligence. You’ll learn how to map the psychological make-up of your team, so you can identify team strengths and blind spots, leverage your team’s psychological diversity to the best advantage, and reduce stress and conflict. The end result: A happier, more productive team. Please note: You must take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment before this workshop.
Time: 1–5 p.m.
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
Immediate Takeaways and Benefits
• Understand behavior preferences to help teams
• Leverage psychological diversity to best advantage
• Create effective communication, decision-making and planning strategies
• Relate to each other with greater empathy and understanding
• Reduce stress and interpersonal conflict
Learning Outcomes
• Describe your own personality preferences and identify advantages, stressors and challenges for project teams.
• Develop style flexibility in order to work with those whose styles are different from and the same as yours.
• Map the psychological make-up of your team; identify team strengths and blind spots.
• Create team norms and processes to address and leverage the diversity of your team.
• Identify sources of conflict within project teams and develop strategies to manage functional and dysfunctional conflict.
Who Should Attend
• Project managers or program managers responsible for leading multifunctional teams
• New project managers seeking to develop team leadership skills
• Any project manager looking to refresh team communication strategies
• Any project leader at risk of unmet estimated budget, schedule or scope; unacceptable quality issues; or unsatisfied project customers
• Business analysts interested in visual thinking
Associated Courses
• Getting Key Stakeholders to Manage Your Project
• Portfolio and MultiProject Management
• Project Management Associate course
• We’re All Different: Leveraging MBTI Styles in Project Teams
• Building a Culture of Communication
• Managing Troubled Projects Benefits
• Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the power of visual thinking as it applies to project management
• Become acquainted with several visual tools to aid in thinking, reporting and collaborating.
Making Thinking Visible
Gain a deeper understanding of the power of visual thinking when applied to project management, and tap into visual techniques to aid your thinking, reporting and collaborating. You will learn specific techniques and approaches that increase understanding and clarity of complex project data.
Time: 1–5 p.m.
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
Immediate Takeaways
• Leverage visual techniques to clarify complex situations, foster project team collaboration and enhance understanding of project data
• Design an effective project war room and project dashboards
Learning Outcomes
• Describe and use visual tools for information capture, organization and analysis
• Apply principles of visual design to project reporting
• Describe the fundamentals of project war room design
• Design effective project dashboards
Who Should Attend
• Project managers responsible for leading multifunctional teams
• New project managers seeking to develop team leadership skills
• Experienced project or program managers looking to refresh their team communication strategies
• Project managers who lead teams that have trouble communicating or resolving conflict
• Any team lead or team member who wants to improve their communication and interpersonal skills
Associated Courses
• Getting Key Stakeholders to Manage Your Project
• Portfolio and MultiProject Management
• Project Management
• Project Management Basics
• Project Management Associate
• We’re All Different: Leveraging MBTI Styles in Project Teams
Benefits
• Leverage communication style diversity to your best advantage
• Create effective communication, decision-making and planning strategies
• Relate to others with greater empathy and understanding
• Reduce stress in interpersonal conflict
Building a Culture of Communication
Communication can accelerate a team’s success when it’s strong and kill a team’s efforts and spirit when it’s not. It can also affect your company’s bottom line. Highly effective communicators are more likely to deliver projects on time and within budget, according to the Project Management Institute. Learn how to build a team culture of open and effective communication. You’ll discover the skills, processes and tools for fostering open communication across your project team,allowing you to navigate interpersonal relationships and communication styles to achieve your project goals.
Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.
PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $695
Immediate Takeaways
• Understand skills required of a PM to successfully foster communication across project teams
• Assess your individual project team’s communication strengths, weaknesses and preferences and be able to develop communication strategies based on team dynamics
• Put into practice tools and techniques for fostering communication across every phase of a project lifecycle (Kick off Meetings, PDCA report outs, SCRUM, Communication Plan)
• Foster a culture of trust and openness to drive functional conflict and open communication
• Develop communication strategies based on team dynamics
Learning Outcomes
• Develop a communication plan that leverages your project team’s communications strengths and compliments team member communication styles/preferences
• Identify specific communication enhancements you would like to implement to foster stronger communications within your teams
• Implement standard practice communication processes that can benefit your project teams
• Identify ways to address conflict and lead functional team conflict that leads to open dialog and innovative solution
Immediate Takeaways
• Understand the process and integration of Lean with Green Belt tools
• Learn how to identify and prioritize optimal projects
• Learn how to deliver lasting financial results in three to six months
Who Should Attend
• Health care professionals
• Process engineers
• Logistics professionals
• Manufacturing engineers
• Operations professionals
• Quality engineers
• Customer service professionals
• Supervisors
• Project managers
• Consultants
• Anyone interested in enhancing continuous improvement efforts using Lean Six Sigma methodologies
Associated Courses
• Introduction to Scrum
• Scrum and Agile
• Project Management
• Six Sigma Black Belt
