The Senior Project Management Course
Seminar Overview
Only for experienced project managers, this 4-day seminar examines advanced project and program management techniques. This seminar builds on the basics to ensure success for even the largest and most risky projects and programs.
Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continues to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.
Learn the newest technologies for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints, and GERT can help you develop solid, reliable, yet highly efficient projects and programs. Discover how to select vendors and write contracts for the mutual benefit of both the program team and the vendor.
Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network affects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks.
Finish your advanced training with technologies for developing a continuous improvement plan for program management. Based on advanced business process management and the SEI CMMI levels 2 and 3, the module shows how to establish goals for program management, identify metrics to benchmark and track the progress of your improvement plans, and develop strategies for root-cause analysis.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is intended for experienced and well-trained project managers running medium-to-large scale and cross-functional projects.
What's Covered
- Advanced project scope definition
- Risk and uncertainty analysis and management
- Requirements traceability
- Critical Chain
- Queuing theory and its application in large-scale programs
- Procurement and vendor management
- Advanced estimating techniques
- The Theory of Constraints
- Advanced work package definitions
- Monte-Carlo analysis
- Delphi technique
- Earned value as a program improvement tool
- Metrics to track the progress of the project and of project management
- Defining and continuously improving program management
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Your Benefits
- Develop solid project plans for even the most challenging projects
- Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle
- Reduce staff workload while increasing productivity
- Build quality into your project
- Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation
- Handle difficult vendors
- Improve estimates for risky or challenging plans
- Balance resources and constraints across multiple projects
- Reduce schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques
- Accurately report progress even on complex and risky projects
- Improve stakeholder communication and involvement
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Syllabus
1. A Solid Foundation
We start by reviewing our basic understanding of projects and programs. During this review, we highlight those areas that are critical to successful project management. We introduce the project maturity models and show how an organization progresses in its project and program development. Finally, we introduce the latest models for program success.
2. Advanced Project Scope Definition
We start this module by expanding our understanding of the project scope statement. This includes such concepts as requirements traceability, product definition, and business risk analysis. Learn techniques for determine the true value of a project, including updated financial techniques.
3. Advanced Tools for Planning
Advanced planning techniques include Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT) permitting looping and branching in your project plans,decision trees, advanced work package dictionaries, deliverables-based WBS and more..
4. Advanced Estimating and Scheduling Techniques
In this module, we fine-tune our understanding of probabilistic and deterministic estimating models, including top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out. We expand our understanding of parametric and analogous models and develop and understanding for those hard-to-estimate projects and early project estimates. We then explore the advancing project schedule and resource development techniques, including Critical Chain and queueing theory.
5. Procurement and Vendor Management
Discover the secrets to simply and reliable vendor selection and management. First, learn the procurement model to establish a program procurement plan. Learn different styles and techniques for selecting vendors that meet your needs. We then review different types of contracts and their affect on vendor and project manager’s risks and reward systems. Finally, we examine how to manage the vendors during execution.
6. Advanced Risk and Uncertainty Management
In this module, we explore advance project risk and uncertainty management., including strategies for handling uncertainty, advanced identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis. You will see demonstrations and practice nominal group technique for quickly identifying and qualifying project risks. Discover both the practical and the professional applications of the Delphi technique for risk management. Learn how the project network diagram affects project risks.
7. Improving Project and Program Management
Designed to aid organizations in their quest for CMMI level 2 and 3, this module examines the whole of project management and develops concepts for managing, tracking, benchmarking, and improving project management. Learn the concepts of process definition as it applies to a program environment. Learn to develop metrics to accurately track the process of your projects without speculation or political influence. Conduct root-cause analysis on projects using earned value. Finally, we develop a project management scorecard to establish goals and benchmarks for improving project and program management.
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