Advanced Project Management: Making Tracks to Success

Advanced Project Management (Making Tracks to Success) 3 Day, 21 PDU Credits, $1195.00 (plus GST)

Advanced Project Management (Making Tracks to Success) 2 Day, 14 PDU Credits, $795.00 (plus GST)

Course Overview

Advanced project management 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 hands-on experience, practicing your skills in developing and confirming project scope, building project requirements and developing and interpreting network diagrams. You’ll 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 scenarios that help enhance these skills, and a comprehensive toolkit provides practical field guidance. In addition to the extensive course materials, you'll also receive a copy of the Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement by Goal/QPC.

Discover a number of sophisticated tools and techniques that you can use to manage, risk, time and costs effectively on every type of project.

Student Comments:

"I enjoyed the course and was impressed with the real world content. I had a lot of questions going in but all we’re answered".

Who Should Attend

Designed for project managers with at least 2 years experience and/or those who have completed EPM’s fundamental course “Professional Project Management” You enhance your existing skills as a project manager to be able to manage projects of any size. This course provides a comprehensive toolkit based on real life project use and these are provided in hardcopy and electronic copy as required.

Learn How To

• Effectively manage stakeholders
• Manage project risk effectively and develop comprehensive strategies
• Use decision trees and expected value calculations to quantify risk
• Manage project schedules using earned value techniques
• Practice effective coaching skills to further develop an effective project team
• Identify and analyze stakeholder acceptance

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered

• Integration Management
• Scope Management
• Quality Management
• Time Management
• Cost Management
• Human Resources Management
• Communications Management
• Risk Management
• Procurement Management

Course Outline

Unit 1:

• Initiation
• Project life cycle
• Emergence of projects
• Gathering/defining requests
• Project selection
• Teamwork
• Stakeholders Identification & Classification
• Project charter

Unit 2:

• Planning
• Communications
• Stakeholder Management
• Schedule development
• Risk management
• Quality Management

Unit 3:

• Implementation
• Earned Value & Progress Reporting
• Change control
• Contract Management
• Managing Multiple Projects

Unit 4:

• Close-out
• Contract close out
• Administrative closure
• Post implementation review