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Attend Successful Project Management to develop the insights and skills you need to define, plan, and assign work; obtain meaningful commitments; coordinate project efforts; monitor and evaluate results; manage risk; and critically evaluate budgets and schedules. You'll apply these insights and practical skills to project situations through individual and group exercises.
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Benefits
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Contents
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Who Should Attend
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Instructor
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Hours & Credits
- Break large or complex efforts into manageable assignments, including the proper use of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
- Plan, estimate, schedule, and budget work
- Measure and control cost, schedule, and technical performance
- Monitor, document, and report project progress and problems
- Manage changes and re-plan work when necessary
- Establish and use contingency allowances wisely
- Win management support and obtain necessary resources
- Ensure customer and management satisfaction
- Anticipate and manage risk
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects and activities
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Principles of Project Management
- Define projects and project management
- Understand the project manager’s roles and responsibilities
- Keep your team focused on the project’s objectives
- Manage stakeholders’ expectations
Planning the Project
- Identify project objectives
- Analyze and establish project requirements
- Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Schedule the tasks and key milestones
- Utilize precedence analysis for scheduling
- Create the task relationship network
- Identify and manage the critical path
- Cost estimating techniques
- Develop detailed budgets and resource allocation plans
- Select appropriate software project management tools
Exercise: Project planning simulation
Managing the Project
- Key elements in executing the project plan
- Anticipate and manage project risk
- Identify and manage the critical chain
- Measure, monitor, and report project progress
- Improve and manage project communications
- Manage customer requirements and changes
- Control work-in-progress
Exercise: Apply the principles and tools to actual participant situations
Building and Leading an Effective Project Team
- Properly assign people to project tasks
- Effectively lead teams
- Obtain continued management support to maintain team resources
- Motivate the team to perform at the highest level
- Manage ‘virtual teams’
Exercise: Manage project personnel through difficult situations
Project Organization
- How organizations influence project performance: power, politics, policies
- Organizing through the product life cycle
- Projects in the corporate organizational structure: project, functional, matrix
- Organizing your project
- Managing projects in different cultures and various industries
Case study/exercise: Project leadership and organization culture
Special Applications
- Managing multiple projects
- ‘Virtual’ projects
- Subcontract management
- Phase-gated projects
- Special participant topics
- Establishing and using a Project Management Office
- Applying project management practices in diverse industries and departments
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| Senior managers, project managers, business analysts, and technical professionals wanting to improve their on-time and on-budget project performance. |
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Day 3 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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CEU :
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2.25 |
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PDU :
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22.5 |
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| Download Course Brochure (PDF) |
Course Instructor
Chris Christensen click for bio
Looking for a project management certificate? See our 10-Day Project Management Certificate Program.
Special Feature
Earn PDU credits in this course! |
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Caltech Industrial Relations Center is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI® R.E.P.).
PMI and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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Comments from Past Participants
"Chris is an excellent instructor. I could not wait to see what he was going to show us next ... I appreciated the exposure to new tools for better project management and insights on how to manage one of the most important components of any project: people."
Edward Merlo
Mixed Signal Products Operations
Rockwell Scientific
“There are so many valuable aspects of this program, I don’t know where to start! The concept of how to plan a project will greatly help me in my job. I thought the content, presentation and materials offered were great and Caltech IRC’s administration of the course was excellent.”
Ed Rogin
Product Marketing Manager
Siemens Energy & Automation
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