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A 2-day, 14 PDU (1.4 CEU) instructor-led Program
(Note: Architectural,
Engineering, and Construction (AE/C) firms extend the definition of
traditional project management to include several critical business
practices. This program reflects that extended
definition.)
AE/C Project Management will develop the skills you need to build a sturdy project plan and to manage the project using that plan. Each participant will learn how to balance the triple constraints of scope, cost, and schedule with the other project imperatives of quality, risk, stakeholder satisfaction, and business profit.
The program features several hand-on workshops where participants use their own projects to develop a scope statement, Work Breakdown Structure, network logic diagram, and resource assignments. From these solid plans come winning proposals with healthy profit margins.
Program topics include: maintaining good customer relations, managing scope changes, selling the next job, and progress-measurement techniques such as the project status meeting and "earned value" status reporting.
Through the interactive game of Herding Cats®, everyone will manage a project, revise a plan based on milestone achievements, assess risk, and re-plan to accommodate scope changes that occur.
The program includes the latest terminology from The PMBOK® Guide.
Upon completion, you will be able to:
· Write a one-page scope statement
· Construct a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
· Develop accurate estimates
· Quantify cost and schedule risk
· Calculate the critical path
· Get paid for scope changes
· Schedule activities and resources
· Sell the next job from risk, resource, and scope issues
Who Will Benefit?
· Project managers who plan and execute projects
· Team leaders who manage project teams
· Project team members who need to know the elements of project management
· Principals and partners of AE/C firms with a need for better processes
· Program managers who coordinate several projects at the same timeto read the right reports
Agenda
Day 1
Introduction to
project management
·
What
are your biggest project challenges?
·
Generally
accepted project management practices
·
Project
life cycle: should the project have one?
·
Stakeholders:
who are they, and why should you care?
·
How
do you make scope, cost, schedule, and quality trade offs?
·
What
are a project manager's responsibilities?
Scope
development
·
How
do you write a one-page scope statement?
·
What's
a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
·
WBS
examples and alternatives
·
How
do you get paid for project management?
Estimating
·
What
should you estimate, why, and how often?
·
Project
estimates vs. activity estimates
·
Bottom-up,
analogous, and parametric estimates
Scheduling issues
·
Duration
estimating: time- vs. resource-driven
·
Activity
sequencing: what must you watch for?
·
Determining
scheduling flexibility
·
How
do you calculate the critical path using the Critical Path Method (CPM)?
·
Merge
bias: why is the CPM schedule too optimistic?
·
The
realities of working overtime
Day
2
Risk management
·
How
do you figure out a risk's likelihood, outcome, and time frame?
·
On-going
risk management
Working
with the client
·
How
do you negotiate a fair price for scope changes?
·
How
do you maintain a great customer relationship?
·
What
is necessary to sell the next job?
·
Why
is role assignment so important?
·
What
are the two important uses of a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)?
Project execution
·
Herding
Cats®: the Game of Projects
·
What
is the best way to measure performance objectively?
·
How
do you predict the cost and schedule at completion?
·
How
should you conduct project performance-review meetings?
·
What
must you do to close a project?
·
How
do you best document the important
lessons learned??
Contact us early to be sure to get the training dates you need.
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