Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Integration Management

Course ID: PM20302

Course Overview

How does your PMO work with your organization’s executives to build an effective project and portfolio management culture? What are the roles and responsibilities needed for PMO success? How do you ensure that your portfolio of projects is aligned with your organizational strategies? How do you best report PMO performance for optimal decision-making by senior management? In this one-day workshop, you will be introduced to the concepts that will provide you the know-how to strategically govern your PMO for superior organizational performance.

The PMO has a two-way nature, integrating the organizations project and portfolio management environment with the overall business environment. PMO governance is those set of processes and practices that enable that integration leading to project and organizational success.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the various roles and responsibilities needed to integrate the organization’s project and portfolio management environment with the overall business environment
• Convene management and technical advisory boards and committees to collaborate in decisions and provide guidance to maximize PMO success
• Facilitate executive and senior management involvement in project and portfolio management
• Understand how to effectively align your portfolio of projects with your organizational strategy
• Report project, portfolio, and PMO performance to enable better decision making
• Show that your PMO adds value to the organization and gets results

Course Outline

• PMO Governance Roles & Responsibilities
• Executive Involvement in Project & Portfolio Management
• Strategic Alignment
• Measuring and Reporting Project & Portfolio Management Performance
• Adding Value and Getting Results

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered: Human Resource Management

Course ID: PM43921

Course Overview

In the late 1970s and early 1980s companies like General Foods, Volvo, and a few others made headlines when they formed teams to accomplish projects. Today it is considered a standard way of doing business. In order to achieve successful team projects it is critical that everyone from senior management to the customer to the team member understands what it will take to achieve success. Is a team really necessary? What are the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder? How should team members be selected and managed? What happens when conflict arises? Is it possible to have a team performance evaluation?

This one-day workshop will introduce you to the concepts of how to effectively design, build, and manage a high performance team.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Determine when an individual approach or a team approach is appropriate
• Explain and apply leadership techniques
• Identify the necessary steps for successful team development
• Describe management’s role in team development and team dynamics
• Identify how to measure team effectiveness
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of Relationship Awareness® Theory

Course Outline

To have a team or not to have a team

• Describe the difference between a team and a group
• Determine when team approach is appropriate
• Determine when an individual approach is appropriate

How can teams be effective?

• Identify characteristics of effective teams
• Identify steps in creating effective teams
• Explain the role of management in creating effective teams

Selecting and shaping the team player

• Define and describe four basic motivational value systems
• Define and describe blends of motivational value systems
• Identify the five stages of team development
• Describe the relationship between value systems and conflict
• List and describe five methods for addressing conflict

How effective is the team?

• Describe measuring points to determine the effectiveness of teams
• Explain how to evaluate team performance

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Integration Management
• Perform Quality Control
• Project Risk Management

Course ID: PM34902

Course Overview

How should you track the performance of your project portfolio? What does senior management need to know for effective decision-making, and what’s the best way to present that information to them? What can you do to make sure you recognize troubled projects before they become failed projects? How can you insure that you are optimizing your use of human resources? In this one-day workshop, you will be introduced to the concepts that will provide you the know-how to strategically manage a balanced portfolio of projects for superior organizational performance.

In managing and controlling your project portfolio, decisions involve a re-verification of your projects’ critical success factors — including resource availability and the continued validity of the business case — with the business sponsors. In addition, shifting business, technology, and market conditions can rearrange project priorities. Those decisions also require a re-alignment of the project portfolio, which may or may not affect other projects in the portfolio. In this workshop you’ll learn the project portfolio management practices that provide the capability to effectively meet these challenges and insure that your organization maximizes its return on investment.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain how to determine where to place resources where they matter reducing wasteful spending
• Recognize troubled projects before they become failures
• Manage project mix and overall portfolio quality
• Explain how to collect and present the essential information needed to continually align and balance your portfolio of projects
• Assess your project portfolio performance using earned value analysis

Course Outline

Conditions for Successful Portfolio Management

• Describe benefits of portfolio management
• Describe the six components of effective portfolio management
• Explain the role of leadership in portfolio management

Monitoring Portfolio Performance

• Identify quantitative and qualitative metrics used to monitor performance
• Describe methods of gathering needed data
• Identify and describe various tools for portfolio projects

Outputs of Performance Management

• Explain the usage of dashboard

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Integration Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Communications Management

Course ID: PM49558

Course Overview

Increasingly, work is done by real-time, project-specific teams. As the core of an organization shrinks, better use must be made of the resources that remain and of contractors, temporaries, and part-timers. The complex resource management challenges that result are natural applications for project management skills. These skills facilitate any activity comprised of defined interrelated tasks that must be completed on time and within budget, while meeting specified customer requirements.

This unique team-based simulation workshop allows participants to put into practice the tools and techniques to manage projects successfully, keeping them on time, on track, and on budget.

Managing By Project is designed specifically for those who must create projects from the ground up and then manage them. This is what they practice and learn to do by actually doing it in the course. These managers may or may not be at a more senior level, but typically spend the majority of their time managing projects, may manage larger and more complex projects, and often manage multiple projects. It is equally valuable for technical and non-technical managers, and is useful to individual contributors as well as to project leaders. Both line and staff functions will benefit from attendance, and whether you are a seasoned project manager or new to management, you will grow and learn from your experience.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this simulation workshop, participants will be able to:

• Manage by project
• Use fundamental principles and tools
• Organize and lead a project team
• Plan, schedule, and control a project
• Get quality work done on time and on budget
• Emphasize the human side of project management
• Experience a project from beginning to end
• Value the customer’s viewpoint

Course Outline

Introduction

• Agenda
• Objectives

Project Management Tools

• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Establish a critical path
• Plan a kickoff event
• Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for project success

Project Simulation

• Run a 21 week project with your team
• Use and maintain project status reports
• Redirect project work and resources based on project work
• Plan team member development activities as part of the plan
• Close the project

Project Debrief

• Review the results of the project
• Analyze project problems and alternative solutions
• Celebrate project successes
• Develop an action plan

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Integration Management
• Project Communication Management
• Project Human Resource Management

Course ID: PM50069

Course Overview

Change management is not just a communication or awareness plan. Change management is a comprehensive effort to lead your organization through transformation. Most importantly, the transformation effort must be actively led and managed. In this one-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to concepts and techniques to help you effectively prepare your organization for the successful acceptance of cultural change that comes with major project implementations.

This workshop will highlight the key barriers to implementing effective project management change in your organization and solutions for overcoming those barriers. You’ll learn how to assess your organization’s readiness to accept change, including how change is understood and whether management is positioned to led the transition. You’ll also learn how to develop an effective change management action plan that includes creating a vision of the future as well as a path for transitioning to that future.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain key change management requirements and their application to project environments
• Articulate clear role requirements in change management
• Identify and mitigate typical barriers to effective change implementation
• Communicate a clear vision and goals for change
• Assess your organization’s readiness to accept change
• Create an effective organizational change management plan

Course Outline

• Change management overview
• Barriers to change
• Change management roles and responsibilities
• Assessing organizational change management action plan
• Change management benchmarking

Course Length: Half-Day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Scope Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Communications Management

Course ID: PM50069

Course Overview

There's a noticeable trend among top organizations – they are moving toward a project-oriented approach to managing their businesses. This half-day course is designed specifically for senior-level managers and executives that want to understand and appreciate the value project management can bring in helping to execute business strategies. Participants will obtain a more comprehensive perspective of the art of managing projects, the advantages and demands of implementing a project management culture, and the benefits of advancing organizational project management maturity. In addition, participants will see a demonstration of how best practices in project management can add consistency to the process of delivering quality products and solutions to customers on time, within budget, and ahead of the competition.

Key Outcomes

• Describe the foundations of a project management culture
• Articulate the value of project management as it relates to the organization
• Describe the benefits of a project management approach
• Describe the stages of organizational project management maturity
• Identify the characteristics of managing projects from a strategic perspective
• Demonstrate an understanding of the various roles and responsibilities of executives and project managers
• Describe the typical life cycle of a project
• Demonstrate an understanding of the language of project management
• Identify the tools and techniques that make up industry best practices

Course Outline

Project Management Overview

• Define the characteristics of a project
• Define the purpose and the benefits of project management

Project Management Roles and Issues

• Define the roles of the executive, project sponsor, and project manager

Project management basics

• List and describe the five process groups of project management
  o Initiation
  o Planning
  o Executing
  o Monitoring/Controlling
  o Closing
• Describe the framework components of each of the five process groups
• Identify ways to prioritize projects
• Explain how to analyze the network diagram for the project
• List and describe each of the components of the risk management process
• Identify questions to assist in assessing project status

Creating a Project Management Culture

• Describe foundations of a project management culture
• List five elements of a project organization
• Identify six steps for successful organizational change
• Describe how to assess project management maturity

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Scope Management

Course ID: PM50069

Course Overview

Setting the right direction for a project from the start is crucial to accomplish its desired outcomes successfully. This workshop is designed for project managers that need to get a jumpstart on a current project. It focuses on the Project Charter and creating an initial scope statement to allow participants to actually complete some of the initial planning for their project by the end of the workshop.

Key Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Develop a Project Charter
• Develop an initial scope statement
• Describe a WBS

Course Outline

Project Charter

• Develop a project charter
• Define roles
• Identify project stakeholders
• Plan the kick-off meeting

Project Scope Statement

• Determine requirements
• Define project scope
• Create a scope statement

Work Breakdown Structure

• Describe a work breakdown structur

Course Length: One-day Workshop
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:

• Project Risk Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Communications Management

Course ID: PM49993

Course Overview

The consequences of failed projects can be grim. Lost business, lost jobs, and lost opportunity. To put it in perspective, consider this: In just a 12-month period, organizations that average closing $65 million worth of projects will see $30 million of those projects at risk of failing, according to findings from the Center for Business Practices. That means that nearly half of an organization's projects are at risk at any given time, no matter the size of the organization. With so much at stake, early detection and action is key to avoiding the substantial losses associated with troubled projects and project failures.

In this one-day workshop you will be introduced to a comprehensive review and recovery process that helps you identify troubled projects and take corrective action early in the project lifecycle to avoid costly losses and failure. You’ll learn how to identify true root causes of troubled projects through a formal assessment to focus recovery efforts in the right areas. You’ll also learn how to develop a recovery plan that identifies the critical objectives that must be satisfied to complete the project.

Key Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Establish a review and recovery process to avoid costly project failures
• Identify the root causes of troubled projects
• Create a project recovery plan
• Describe the steps needed to execute your project recovery plan successfully
• Capture lessons learned from a project review and/or recovery to improve your overall project management capability
• Articulate the critical success factors for successful project recovery

Course Outline

Identifying Troubled Projects

• Identify warning signs of a troubled project
• Describe causes of troubled projects
• Identify factors that lead to status suppression
• Explain the vale of the project review process

List and define the five steps of project recovery

• Identify project trigger points for project review
• Explain the project review process
• List and describe components of a project recovery plan
• Create a recovery plan
• Explain how to integrate the recovery plan with the project plan
• Identify methods to measure and monitor recovery
• Describe the activities and deliverables of a post project review for troubled projects
• Identify critical success factors for project recovery