Highly Customized Three Day Project Management Workshops:

PM10:  Project Management Basics – For those in nontechnical fields, new project managers, those looking for formal PM training, members of a project team, and others who have contact with projects and project managers.

PM 20:  Basic IT Project Management– For those in IT fields, new project managers, those looking for formal PM training, members of a IT project team, and others who have contact with IT projects and project managers.

PM 30:  Advanced Project/Program Management – For those with experience or ready to take the next step, those implementing project systems, those looking for formal PM training, program managers, and others who have to develop systematic and repeatable projects processes and senior managers.

PM 40:  Preparing for the PMP Certification – For those ready to study for and pass the PMI PMP. 

Link to PM Support (under construction)

Typical Project Management Topics To Select From

3 Day Workshop    

Learning Objectives -- Designed to meet your needs.  You decide.  Learn how to:

• Understand concepts and benefits of project management

• Manage scope

• Get the biggest bang for the buck

• Deliver results through a full Systems Approach to project

• Empower others to pull your project forward with the Seven Attributes of Excellent Management

• Plan using the best project tools

• Monitor and control to ensure positive results

• Keep customers happy

• Track requirements

• Build project management systems

• Implement project management systems in your company

• Lower stress and improve enjoyment

Why Take This Course:

To ensure that your projects achieve stated goals, on time, at least cost, and with appropriate quality.  To help maximize profits.  To avoid damaged repetitions.  To maximize customer satisfaction.  To increase employee satisfaction.  To lower stress. 

Who to Invite:

·        Professional leaders or those who should be.

·        Project Managers or Those who work with Projects.

·        May be customized to fit all levels of skills and experiences.

Workshop Style:

With Enter-Train-Ment (entertaining training) methods and highly facilitated group sessions, participants work in small groups to learn excellent strategic planning tools and techniques and selectively apply them to real life problems.  We could also use a fun pre-course adventure business story, Geronimo Stone, His Music, His Love, and the Mobile of Excellent Management (www.geronimostone.com).

Workshop Outline: Although every workshop is customized to fit your organization, here is one possible outline.   Each number represents a small module, website support, and POD cast.

Day One - Before the Project Begins and The Concept Page

1.      The Hidden Phase of Project Management "Before the Project Begins"

1.1 Introductions - Understanding Project Management and the Three Phases of Implementing a Change

1.1.1   Introducing participates, facilitator, material, and roadmap

1.1.2   Explain (Classroom) Theory, Observations, (Small Group) Application Modification, and (Homework) Action

1.1.4   Discovering the “need for” and “benefits of” Project Management

1.1.5   Finding the "Who" and "What" of our Project Management

1.2    External Environmental Issues

1.2.1    Contracts and Negotiations

1.3    People Issues

1.3.1    Policies and Politics

1.3.2    Sponsors and Stakeholders

1.4    Organizational Issues

1.4.1   Explaining the Three Phases of Change

1.4.2    Business Life Cycles

1.4.3    Project Life Cycles

1.4.4    Organization of 21st Century

1.5    Internal Environmental Issues and Culture

 

1.6    Systems (Systematic and Repeatable)

1.6.1    Infrastructure

1.6.2    Processes

1.6.3    Project/Program Management Office

1.6.4    Project Portfolio Management

2.0    The Concept Phases

2.1    Chartering

2.1.1    Defining Scope

2.1.2    Business, Technical, and Operation Objectives

2.2    Managing Scope Creep

 

2.3   Cost-Time-Requirements/Scope - The Triple Constraints

2.3.1    Tradeoffs, Negotiations, and Change Management

2.4   Risks Assessments

 

2.5    Resource Allocations and Staffing

 

2.6    Requirements Gathering and Documentation

2.6.1    Gathering Functionality

2.6.2    Understanding Attributes

2.6.3    Discovering Constraints

Day Two - Planning For Success

3.0      Planning Phase

3.1.   Brain Storming Tasks

3.1.1    Cards on the Wall and Other Methods

3.1.2    Using WBS and Selecting Numbering Systems

3.1.2.1    Planning, Scheduling, Staffing, Budgeting, and Control

3.1.3    Forms and Record Keeping

3.2    Matching Objectives, Methodology, and Requirements  

3.2.1    Using the Requirements Documentation During Planning

3.2.2    Managing Scope Creep and Change Control

3.3    Network Logic Diagramming and Swimming Lanes

3.3.1    Dependency Analysis

3.3.2    Estimating Work

3.3.2.1    Estimating Time - CPM, and PERT

3.3.2.2    Targets vs. Estimates vs. Commitments

3.3.3    Forward and Backward Passes and Critical Paths

3.3.4    Crashing Critical Paths

3.4   Estimating Cost

 

3.5    Gantt Charts

3.5.1    Resource Leveling

3.6    MS Project Software and Spread Sheets

 

3.7    Risks Management

3.7.1    Understanding Risk and Knowledge 

3.7.2    Contingency Planning

Day Three - Successful Implementation, Closure, and Operations

4.0 The Implementation Phase

4.1    Seven Attributes of Excellent Management

4.1.1    Leadership

4.1.1.1 Situational Leadership

4.1.1.2 Motivation and Empowerment

4.1.2    Building an Effective Culture

4.1.2.1 Communication

4.1.3    Customer Focus

4.1.3.1 Meetings

4.1.3.2 Customer Relationship Management

4.1.4    Building People and Teams

4.1.4.1 Empowerment

4.1.4.2 Conflict Resolution

4.1.4.3 Productivity

4.1.5    Maximizing Skills and Core Competencies

4.1.5.1 Problem Solving and Facilitation

4.1.6    Change Management and Process Improvement

4.1.7    Project Performance Measures

4.1.8    Earn Value and Other Performance Measures

4.2       Project Management Institute’s Knowledge Areas

4.2.1     Project Integration Management

4.2.2     Project Scope Management

4.2.3     Project Time Management

4.2.4     Project Cost Management

4.2.5     Project Quality Management

4.2.6     Project Human Resource Management

4.2.7     Project Communication Management

4.2.8     Project Risk Management

4.2.9     Project Procurement Management

5.0      Closure or Transition Phases

5.1       Using the Requirements Documentation

5.1.1    Checking and Signing Off on Requirements

5.2       Customer Training and Support

 

5.3       Contract Issues

 

5.4       Lessons Learned

 

5.6       Evaluations and Rewards

6.0      Operational Phases

6.1       Customer Relationship Management

 

6.2       Maintenance and Support

 

6.3       Marketing and Referrals