| Program Agenda:
1. Foundation for Success
?? Establishing a Consistent Vocabulary
?? Classic Functions of Management
?? The Project Lifecycle
?? The 9 Knowledge Areas of Project Management
2. Leadership and Team Building
?? Leadership in a Project Context
?? Practitioner v Project Manager
?? Unified Leadership Theory
o Communication
o Motivation
o Problem Solving
?? Stages of Team Development
?? Characteristics of a Performing Team
3. How to Define Project Scope and Requirements
?? The Goal of the Project
?? Balancing Time, Cost, & Performance
?? Constraints, Assumptions and Risk
?? Tools to Prepare a Project Scope Document
?? Characteristics of Successful Goals
?? How to Prevent "Fuzzy" Requirements
4. How to Develop the Project Work Plan
?? How to Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
?? Defining Phases for Effective Project Control
?? Different Formats for the WBS
?? The Use of Templates
?? How to Create a Network Diagram
?? Types of Network Diagrams
?? Types of Work Dependencies
5. How to Estimate Work
?? The WBS is the foundation for estimating the project
?? Duration v Effort-Driven Estimates
?? Estimate Ownership
?? Estimating Techniques
o Bottom-up Estimating
o Analogous Estimating
o Parametric Estimating
?? Applying Human Productivity Factors
?? Effects of Risk in Estimating
?? Estimates improve over time - How to give early estimates
?? Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
?? Lead and Lag and Fast-Tracking
?? How to Balance Resources in a Dynamic Work Environment
6. Preparation and Documentation
?? The Integrated Project Plan (IPP)
?? Schedules Include Work Package Descriptions
?? Linking Resource and Budget Plans to Project Schedules
?? Project Budgets and Cost
?? The Resource Assignment Matrix
?? Incorporating Risk in the IPP
7. Project Control
?? The Project Kickoff Meeting
?? Formal and Informal Project Control
?? How to Run a Status Meeting
?? Using a Gantt Chart to Track Progress and the Effects of Change
?? Handling Change in a Project Environment
8. How to Close a Project
?? How Projects End
?? Benefits of the Post Project Review
?? Liquidating Commitments
?? Reviewing the Project
?? Evolving the Project Methodology
ARC provides this program in association with Ally Business Developers. All Ally Business Developers programs are PMBOK?? aligned. All instructors are AMA certified. PMBOK is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute. |