About
Course Description
This 5-days course covers knowledge and practice in managing technical projects related to R&D, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and more.
Course Goal
To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to improve his skills to manage technical projects
Course Objectives
By the end of this course the participant will be able to:
- Identify potential problems and avoid them using troubleshooting techniques
- Track projects more effectively
- Create status reports that show top management where budgeting, scheduling and manpower trends are headed
- Cope with tight schedules
Course Outline
- Benefits of Project Management
- Time, Cost and Scope
- Time-cost-scope tradeoffs and negotiations
- Gathering and documenting requirements
- Differentiating among product, process and project requirements
- Project Leadership
- The Functions of Leadership
- Communication, Motivation, and Solving Problems
- Work Supervising
- Project Work Plan
- The Project Work: Definition and Documentation
- Project Templates
- Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
- Skills Needed to Achieve the Work
- Network Logic/Dependency Analysis
- Network diagrams
- Key dependency relationships
- Dealing with overlapping tasks
- Work Estimation
- Duration for Project Tasks
- Labor Content for Project Tasks
- Price Out the WBS
- Estimate Network
- Milestone Plan
- The spreadsheet metaphor
- Project plans: asset and resource utilization, cost or budget, milestones
- Project management software examples
- Projects Monitoring and Control
- The change control process
- Reporting project status and formats
- 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.
