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Project Training at Your Site

Participants Will

  1. Learn "Best Practices" techniques
  2. Practice all techniques with expert coaching
  3. Get free support for a year after class

 

We Fix Common Project Problems?

"Everybody does their projects differently...no consistency"
"We can't get major initiatives done on time"
"We never spot problems early...its always too late to fix them"
"We do projects year after year aimed at the same problem"
"Project team members don't know what's expected of them"
"We don't have a common project language"
"Our estimates are never accurate"
"Executives can't track progress objectively"

Our Customized, Hands-on Training is the Answer

We'll design a customized class with case studies just like your real projects and then work with you to tailor the content to address the project issues your organization faces. Call 800-942- 4323 to start the process.

New Communication Course: 2-day Class
Communication Skills for PMs

Perfect for sales, technical and consulting program/project managers who need to deliver customized solutions tailored to clients.

Customized Content and Case Studies

  1. Work with our PMI certified instructors who design your content for your people.
  2. The instructor will work with you to develop customized case studies that mirror your projects
  3. We provide all attendees with web, email and phone support for one year after class Syllabi

Our Clients Include

Microsoft
3M
HP
Kaiser

Intel
Sony
EDS
Xerox

Siemens
Disney
Verisign
Roche

Qwest
McKesson
Nextel
IBM

Lucent
Johns Hopkins
Citicorp
HealthSouth

Sample Syllabi
101 Essentials of PM
103 Advanced Project Management
104 PMP Prep Class

 

Private Web Seminars

Save Travel Cost & Lost Time from Work
1-to-1 Mentoring from a Certified PM

- 1-on-1 mentoring & group discussions
- Work when it fits their schedule
- Study from anywhere
- Same instructor teaches all your people

 

Essentials Level Class
What You Learn

1. Project Scope - Techniques for meeting with the sponsor to define the scope

2. Requirements - Techniques for meeting with stakeholders to gather requirements and decompose the scope

3.. Project charter - Identify & present major deliverables, risks, resource requirements in live role-play session.

4. Work Breakdown - decompose the scope and deliverables into individual assignments for your team

5. Build Dynamic Schedules - In MS Project® that you update in 10 minutes a week & easily model alternatives

6. Estimate work and duration - Techniques for estimating with your team and making assignments

7. Optimize Your Schedule - Use the critical path to finish as early as possible

8. Communications & Conflict - Learn to handle conflict between you team members

9. Tracking & Status - cope with the problems that affect your project and make a live status report

Intermediate Level Class

What You Will Learn

1. Project Initiation:  Learn to assess the , stakeholders and their hot button issues.  

2. Scope planning:  Learn advanced techniques handling multiple stakeholders

3. Charter:  Develop and present change control processes, and project authority structures. Face a hostile management group in your presentation role-play.

4. Assignments & Estimating:  Learn advanced techniques for estimating including analogous and parametric estimates.    

5. Risks: Assess risks that threaten the project, analyze probability and impact to determine expected value and develop appropriate risk responses.  

6. Microsoft Project:  Calculate resource capacity, work and cost in the software to develop a dynamic project schedule

7 Schedule Optimization:  Learn techniques to finish early

8. Modeling Tradeoffs:  Develop tradeoffs between scope, duration, cost and risk for stakeholders to consider

9. Teams:  Techniques for handling conflict between team members and develop a conflict resolution strategy.

10. Status Reports, Variances & Tracking:  Variance and earned value analysis and model the impact of change requests for the sponsor.  
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