First Nations Project Management Training

Achieving Goals: "Vision" 3 Day Offering...

Course Overview:

Achieving Goals through leadership provides the techniques, and tools to effectively manage each stage of the project life cycle, work within organizational and cost constraints, set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs, get the most from your project management team, and utilize state-of-the-art project management tools to get the work done on time and within budget.

From the opening morning, you'll get Participants will gain hands-on experience, practicing fine tuning your their skills in developing and confirming project scope, building project requirements and developing and interpreting network diagrams. You'll One will learn a sound, logical framework for creating project schedules and controlling project activities.

Discover proven ways to work within your identified constraints, without letting predefined limits curtail creativity or innovation.

Develop effective techniques for managing projects as you put the tools of project management to work. In this course you'll focus on managing the constraints you face in any project: limits on time, human resources, materials, budget, and specifications. And you'll develop techniques for estimating, and interpreting the meaning of earned-value data.

Individual and small-group exercises feature "real life" scenarios that help one enhance these skills, and understand Project Management. Plus access an comprehensive toolkit that provides practical field guidance. .

Be an effective manager and team leader come discover a number of sophisticated tools and techniques that you can use to manage, risk, time and costs effectively on every type of project. Bring your project!

DAY 1

• Unit 1: Initiation
• Emergence of projects
• Project life cycle
• Project selection
• Gathering/defining requests

DAY 2

• Unit 2: Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Stakeholders Identification & Classification
• Communications
• Schedule development

DAY 3

• Unit 3: Quality & Risk
• Quality Management
• Risk Management
• Unit 4: Controlling Processes
• Earned Value & Progress Reporting
• Change Control
• Unit 5: Follow-up sessions
• 3 Months
• 6 Months
• Teleconference or On-Line Support

Who Should Attend:

Designed for band managers, executive directors and senior managers and coordinators with at least 2 years experience and/or those who have completed fundamental course "Taking Control" You enhance your existing skills as a project manager to be able to manage projects of varying size and prioritize projects. This course provides a comprehensive toolkit based on real life project use and application

Learn How To:

• Define project scope
• Manage project risk effectively and develop comprehensive strategies
• Use decision trees and expected value calculations to quantify risk
• Develop & Manage project schedules
• Using earned value techniques
• Identify and analyze stakeholder acceptance
• Communicate effectively with your stakeholders & team
• Learn the value of Communication
• Team build and Delegate
• Integrate quality into your project

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Integration Management
• Scope Management
• Quality Management
• Time Management
• Cost Management
• Human Resources Management
• Communications Management
• Risk Management
• Procurement Management
• Self help management ( taking care of the project manager)