131 Course
What You Learn

Each module has reading, lecture and a case study assignment
1. Project Scope - Techniques for meeting with the customers and owners to define the scope
2. Requirements - Techniques for meeting with customers to gather requirements and decompose the scope
3.. Project charter - Identify & present major deliverables, risks, resource requirements in live role-play meeting.
4. Work Breakdown - decompose the scope and deliverables into individual assignments for subs and 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 and subs
9. Tracking & Status - cope with the problems that affect your project and make a live status report |
133 Course
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. Present in a live meeting and get approval.
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 on handle over-runs, model impact of change requests for the sponsor. |