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Course Description
This 5-days course covers all the aspects necessary to help the participants deliver smart project management solutions with higher quality, greater value and better accountability. Based-on real-world examples it covers everything, from defining scope and gathering requirements, to planning and budgeting, to utilizing scheduling and control tools.
Course Goal:
To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve his project management skills
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course the participant will be able to:
- Set practical and attainable goals for his project.
- Set realistic schedules that he can meet
- Develop and implement a project plan
- Save time and resources
- Cope with budget and time constraints
- Delegate in a fair and practical way within the project team
Course Outline:
Foundations for Success: The Core Concepts
- Concepts and Terminology
- The Need for Project Management
- Functions of Management
- Life-Cycle Processes
- Knowledge Area
Project Teams Leadership
- The Functions of Leadership
- Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
- Work Supervising
- Behavior and Rewards
Project Scope and Requirements
- Project Documentation
- Critical Success Factors and Critical Success Measures
- In-Scope and Out-of-Scope Conditions
- Right Tools and Processes to Define Project Scope
Project Work Plan
- The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
- Project Templates
- Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
- Skills Needed to Achieve the Work
Task Dependencies and Network Logic Diagrams
- Logical Dependencies
- Logic Network
- The Critical Path
Work Estimation
- Duration for Project Tasks
- Labor Content for Project Tasks
- Price Out the WBS
- Estimate Network
Integrated Project Plan
- IPP: Creation, Documentation and approval
- The Plan Communication to Others
Projects Monitoring and Control
- The Status of All Plan Parameters
- Current and Future Variances
- Reporting
- Corrective Action
Project Closure: Documenting Lessons Learned
- Close Out a Project
- Final Report for the Project
- "Lessons Learned" - Prevention, Detection, and Recovery
Who Can Benefit?
R&D professionals, engineers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators, project engineers, facility engineers, plant managers and anyone else who administers technical projects. Individuals from non-technical fields who are new to project management, as well as those looking for formal project management training
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
