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A 3-day, 21 PDU (2.1 CEU) instructor-led program
This program shows you how to manage your projects using the breakthrough concept of Five Sigma® project management. Five Sigma® project management builds on the The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and the "critical chain" to create a project plan that weaves together the latest thinking about "common cause" and "special cause" variations in systems that are projects. This program blends sophisticated scheduling with robust budgeting, then adds the best in product quality and risk management.
You'll develop the skills needed to build a sturdy
project plan and to manage the project using that plan. You'll 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 workshops where participants use their
own real projects to develop a scope statement, work breakdown
structure, network logic diagram, and resource assignments. 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 changes that occur.
Topics include progress measurement techniques such as the project status
meeting and "earned value," status reporting, and how to manage a team of
creative individual contributors. The program includes the latest
terminology from The PMBOK® Guide.
Upon completion, each participant will be able to:
· Write a one-page scope statement
· Construct a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
· Develop accurate estimates
· Quantify cost and schedule risk
· Sequence activities
· Calculate the critical path
· Build a stronger project team
· Schedule activities and resources
· Measure performance objectively
Who Will Benefit?
· Project managers who plan and execute projects
· Project leaders who want to inspire their project teams
· Team leaders who manage project teams
· Project team members who need to know the elements of project management
· Executives of project management firms with a need for better processes
· Managers of project managers who want to know what project managers do
· Program managers who coordinate several projects at the same time
Agenda
Day 1
Introduction to Project Management
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What are your big project challenges?
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Generally accepted project management practices
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Project life cycle: should the project have one?
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Stakeholders: who are they, and why you should care?
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How do you make scope, cost, schedule, and quality trade-offs?
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What are a project manager's
responsibilities?
Scope Development
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How do you write a one-page scope statement?
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How do you define project success criteria?
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What's a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
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WBS examples and alternatives How do you plan for project management?
Day 2
Estimating
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What you should estimate, why, and how
often
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Project estimates vs. activity estimates
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Bottom-up, analogous, and parametric estimates
Risk Management
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Risk likelihood, outcomes, and time frame
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On-going risk management
Influence without Authority
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How do you deal with conflict?
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An innovative team exercise with Legos
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Why is role assignment so important?
Day 3
Scheduling Issues
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Duration estimating: time vs. resource driven
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Activity sequencing: what must you watch for?
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Determining scheduling flexibility
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How do you calculate the critical path using the Critical Path Method (CPM)?
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Merge bias: why is the CPM schedule too optimistic?
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The realities of working overtime
Project Execution
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Herding Cats®: the Game of Projects
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What is the best way to measure performance objectively?
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How do you predict the cost at completion?
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How do you predict the schedule at completion?
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What is are the two important uses of a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)?
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How should you conduct project performance review meetings?
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What must you do to close a project?
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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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