FIVE-DAY PAIRED COUSE
Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control
Project management: getting started
- Developing project objectives and goals
- Creating a project charter
- Developing a project plan
- Capturing functional requirements and defining scope
- Developing and using a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Developing the project schedule
- Estimating time, costs and resources
- Using network scheduling techniques: bar charts (Gantt), critical path methods (CPM), performance evaluation and review techniques (PERT), precedence diagrams
- Addressing the real issue in project scheduling — resource allocation
- Using MS Project as a tool
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Implement and evaluate
- Establishing and maintaining control using basic feedback systems
- Managing scope changes
- Measuring project progress: using variance or earned-value management
- Closing out projects and project evaluations
- Exercise: practice what you learned
Project management action plan
- How to apply project management principles and tools back at work
Schedule
Evening before course — 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Optional dinner for those arriving early
Days 1 and 2 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session
Project Leadership Communication
Leadership and communication in project management
- Defining your leadership
- Distinguishing between leading, managing, coaching and facilitating
- Managing the issue of accountability without direct authority
- Developing your moral authority
- Three competencies for project success
- Modeling the behaviors of leaders
- Identifying and communicating with project stakeholders
- Communicating with clarity and accuracy
- Exercise: working on cases and applying lessons learned
Coaching a project team and individuals
- Your role as a team meeting facilitator
- Making timely interventions in meetings
- Developing your emotional competence in conflict situations
- Identifying and managing “triggers”
- Observing and managing your communication style during conflict
- Managing your reactions to various team meeting situations
- Using a requirements-of-productivity checklist
- Assessing and coaching a team member’s performance gap
- Exercise: working on cases and applying lessons learned
Communicating about needed changes
- Three methods to drive change on a project
- Planning a candid conversation
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Improving listening behaviors: working with feelings and facts
- Communicating and managing issues with project sponsors and resources managers
- Exercise: learning how to give and receive coaching to solve project management problems
Schedule: Five-day paired course
Days 1 and 2 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. First course
Day 3 — 8:00 a.m. – noon End of first course
Day 3 — 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Start second course
Day 4 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Second course
Day 5 — 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. End second course