Mastering Project Management
Duration
Three Days
Description
This intensive three-day course includes applicable hands-on activities and team exercises which will reinforce project management core competencies. This will provide the participants with the ability to move their project management knowledge and skill level higher with techniques to run projects faster and more effectively.
Objectives
- Define the six step project management process
- Understand the project’s life cycle
- Determine five ways to give proper leadership within culture
- Design an agenda for the first project team meeting
- Identify the triple constraints of every project
- Define the project drivers
- Demonstrate interviewing techniques that will assist in determining project specifics
- Review constraint red flags to watch
- Show how to set, control, and monitor project scope
- Summarize major areas to brainstorm
- Classify who to place on your project team
- Label role descriptions and project responsibilities when you have no position power
- Facilitate brainstorming and planning meetings
- Create a modified code of conduct for running an empowered team
- Examine forms in scheduling a project and possible scheduling issues
- Formulate a WBS, work breakdown structure
- Track multiple projects
- Evaluate a real time line
- Evaluate why time calculations are wrong
- Examine characteristics of a milestone
- Analyze strengths and weaknesses of a Gantt chart
- Define the critical path
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a critical path
- Explore how to handle delays
- Discuss effects of a late start
- Examine steps in creating a project budget and developing a master budget control process
- Discuss implementation of project plan
- Identify seven things which must be communicated in every project
- Review who should be communicated to
- Evaluate the results of poor communication
- Identify a checklist for team meetings
- Analyze signs of poor updates
- Describe ways to communicate bad news
- Classify how to manage the project through influence rather than power
- Summarize danger signals to watch
- Assess how to crash a project
- Implement close down checklists and handoff procedures
- Identify phase out of the project
- Conduct a postmortem
