Project Management for Results

1. June 22–26, 2009
Project Management for Results
Washington, DC
Project Management
for Results
Complete Your Project on Time, on Budget and within Scope
Featuring Project Management Methodology Specifically Designed to Help You:
• Define and Plan Major Government Projects • Master the Process of Closing and Executing Projects
• Track and Manage Projects with Greater Accuracy • Manage and Report Project Data and Enhance
Performance
• Remain within Project Scope
• Visualize and Plan Project Activities Using a Work
• Define Project Goals and Successfully Complete
Breakdown Structure
Project Requirements
In Association with:
Earn 35 PDUs and 30 CPE Credits
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Who Day 1: Monday, June 22, 2009
Should Attend: 8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00
Government: Introduction to Project Management: The Latest Methodologies in
Project Management According to the PMBOK®
• Project Mangers
• Describe the differences between operations, projects and programs
• Portfolio Managers
• Define roles, review the necessary skills of project managers and identify possible
• Program Managers competency gaps
• PMPs 10:00
Review the Terminology: Understand Key Concepts and Terms
• Project Support Staff
• Review key project management terminology as it relates to the PMBOK® and project
• Acquisition and
management methodology
Procurement Staff
• Differentiate the various roles and responsibilities of project stakeholders
• IT Architects
11:00
• CAPMs
Develop Project Management Skills for Success
• Contract Managers • Utilize various methods to enhance project team building
• Understand the key organizational influences that affect a project
12:00
What
Lunch Break
12:30
Project Initiation Phase
You Will Learn:
• Implement key stakeholder techniques for the first customer/sponsor meeting
• Identify and describe project requirements in clear terms
• Successfully Bring a Project from
2:00
Initiation to Execution
Project Organization Phase
• Break Project Work Down into
• Align project team requirements with current organizational structure and standards
Meaningful Tasks
• Define roles and develop necessary skills to effectively deliver planned objectives
• Develop Project Performance
Measurement and Reporting 3:30
Standards Creating the Project Charter
• Review criteria to determine what is needed in the project charter documents
• Understand Critical Factors for
Reclaiming Troubled Projects • Utilize best-in-class techniques for executing a project charter with full sponsor’s approval
• Develop an Integrated EVM System 4:30
Day One Adjourns
• Acquire the Necessary Units to
Sit for the PMP® Examination
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Day 2: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
2:00
8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Develop a Preliminary Schedule
• Create a network diagram and identify the critical path
9:00
• Identify early and late schedules and produce a preliminary Gantt
Key Techniques for Defining a Project Chart using this information
• Understand and identify the components of a project
description document 3:30
• Create and describe the purpose of a project priority matrix Construct the Network Diagram
• Monitor project timing and resources and manage the links
10:00
between them
Plan the Project Infrastructure • Establish then minimize realistic project duration while
• Determine the purpose of defining the project infrastructure maintaining overall cost and design requirements
• Develop quality standards based on project goals and
contract requirements 4:30
Day Two Adjourns
11:00
Visualize and Plan the Project Activities Using a
Work Breakdown Structure
• Understand the purpose of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Understand the Four Elements of Project
• Create a WBS using two techniques
Management: Project Initiation, Project
12:00
Lunch Break
Planning, Project Execution and Project
12:30
Close Out
Use the Work Breakdown Structure for
Effective Estimating
• Differentiate cost estimating and cost budgeting
• Develop an expected value process to create a defensible
contingency reserve
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Day 3: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:00
Create the Project Budget
• Identify your costs and develop your own project
8:30
budgeting process
Registration and Continental Breakfast
• Create a baseline to determine if the project is on track and help
chart the project and progress
9:00
Define Project Estimates 3:30
• Differentiate a contingency reserve and a management reserve
Optimize the Project Plan
• Use your WBS to provide a more accurate project estimate
• Develop key strategies for creating and optimizing the
project plan
10:00
• Manage project status and anticipate problems that can hurt
Analyze the Network Diagram project progress
• Resolve project and program problems and make decisions
4:30
• Establish then minimize realistic project duration while maintaining
Day Three Adjourns
overall cost and design requirements
11:00
Manage Project Progress: Integrating the
Gantt Chart
• Graphically document, manage and monitor project progress to
effectively minimize setbacks
• Maintain project scope and take corrective action to get projects
back on course
12:00
Lunch Break
12:30
Utilize and Load Organizational Resources
• Maintain and assign people, facility and equipment resources
accordingly
• Actively adjust loads and variable expenses and understand the
difference between generic-and specific-level resources
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Day 4: Thursday, June 25, 2009
8:30 2:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Understand the Project Manager’s Role in
Team Development
9:00
• Overcome the many challenges to being an effective
Identify Risks project leader
• Identify and evaluate project risk • Strengthen your leadership skills by assessing, developing and
• Determine specific risks by project and by work package advancing management capabilities
or activity
3:30
10:00
Report Project Status
Utilize Risk Analysis Techniques • Recording and report project status using different methods
• Determine how risk management will be executed, who will be • Ensure data is accuracy when giving real project status reports
involved and the precise techniques to use
• Objectively analyze the probability and impact of each 4:30
possible risk Day Four Adjourns
11:00
Design a Risk Management Plan
Create an Effective Work
• Create a risk management plan to ensure successful project
execution
Breakdown Structure
• Analyze, control, and mitigate risks using this effective tool
12:00
Lunch Break
12:30
Assemble the Project Team
• Assess project human capital needs and negotiate staff
assignments with senior leadership
• Lead exercise that promote overall
team success
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Key Day 5: Friday, June 26, 2009
8:30
Methodologies: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00
Deal with Change
The project management process
• Manage and communicate project change
described in this course enables
• Create a change management system to avoid confusion and keep your projects on track
project managers to produce project
deliverables in the least amount of
10:00
time, for the lowest cost and with
Establish Change Management Control Procedures
the highest quality. Developed from
• Initiate a change management process within your project
the Project Management Body of
• Enhance project team success through effective change initiatives
Knowledge (PMBOK®), produced by
The Project Management Institute,
11:00
this course teaches project managers
Adjust the Scope for Schedule Changes
to develop specific goals, objectives
• Manage schedule changes that can uncontrollably alter the project scope
and deliverables to control project
• Keep your project within scope and on time using best practices
elements.
12:00
Lunch Break
Project Integration Management
12:30
Monitor and Control Project Processes
Project Scope Management
• Utilize proper measures and metrics to gauge project processes
• Effectively report project processes and make enhancements
Project Time Management
2:00
Project Cost Management
Execute the Project Closeout Phase
• Name the three steps to closing out a project and the several choices for project
Project Quality Management closeout activities
• Conduct a project closeout review
Project Human Resource Management
3:30
Document Lessons Learned
Project Communication Management
• Document project successes and improvements
• Implement a system to ensure data and metrics for further projects
Project Risk Management
4:30
Procurement Management Conference Adjourns
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7. Project Management for Results
Sponsorship In House Training
Opportunities One of the more popular vehicles for accessing the Institute’s educational offerings is the
delivery of on-site trainings and management facilitations. Bringing a training or facilitation
in-house gives you the opportunity to customize a program that addresses your exact
challenges and provides a more personal learning experience, while virtually eliminating
As a conference and training
travel expenses. Whether you require training for a small group or for an organizational-
provider, The Performance Institute is
wide initiative, the advanced learning methods employed by The Performance Institute (PI)
an expert in bringing together leaders will create an intimate training atmosphere that maximizes knowledge transfer to enhance
to share and discuss best practices the talent within your organization.
and innovations. We connect
decision-makers with respected CUSTOMIZATION
We realize that not all obstacles can be overcome by applying an “off-the-shelf solution”.
solution providers.
While many training providers will offer you some variation of their standard training, PI’s
subject matter experts will work with you and your team to examine your programs and
determine your exact areas of need. The identification of real life examples will create a
The Institute offers four different pre-
learning atmosphere that resonates with participants and provides immediate return on your
designed sponsorship packages:
training investment. Using interactive exercises that employ actual projects or scenarios
from your organization, instructors can address specific challenges and align the curriculum
• Event Co-Sponsor
of each session to your objectives. While the majority of on-site trainings are focused
on smaller groups, PI also has the ability to accommodate organizational-wide training
• Session Sponsor
initiatives. Utilizing multiple instructors, PI has the capacity to deliver courses to groups of up
• Luncheon Sponsor to 300 participants per day.
• Exhibit Booth Sponsor
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
On-site delivery of single courses, certification programs and entire packages of specialized
courses are available in the following areas:
For more information on sponsorships • Strategic Planning
or to get started, contact Jessica • Performance Measurement
Ward at 703-894-0481 x 215 or • Project Management
Ward@PerformanceWeb.org • Lean Six Sigma
• Workforce Management
• Performance-Based Budgeting
• Performance-Based Contracting
• Performance Reporting
• Program Evaluation
• Administrative Management
• Leadership and Change
For more information about in-house training options available to you, please contact
Mark Bryan at 703-894-0481 x 225or email him at Bryan@PerformanceWeb.org.
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