Project Management Essentials
Translate the International Standards for Project Management into your real-world
environment

• Find out how to use the effective planning, executing, controlling and closing processes
• Understand international best practices and the relevance of the PMBOK® to your business projects
• Determine how to gain support for projects each step of the way
• Develop robust plans that consider risk and resource constraints
• Learn how to successfully cope with projects irrespective of size and

• Learn how to identify, quantify, prioritise and plan for risk with a systematic approach
• Find out how to distinguish between good luck & bad management and bad luck & bad management
• Learn better decision making to quantify alternatives and understand best, worst & most likely outcomes
• Develop more effective Risk Management plans and pro-actively monitor them as the project unfolds
• Insights into key issues such as realistic assessments of contingency funds
• Analyse Contractual Risks and influencing the procurement process

• Building an effective and motivated project team
• Negotiating for key resources and working around organisational barriers
• Effective estimating techniques and practical ways for developing robust schedules
• Improving quality performance on your projects
• Scheduling to resolve resource conflicts in the planning phase
• Manage project performance and accurately report project status

• Use world class training materials developed by Rita Mulcahy, RMC Project Management, Inc.
• Discover the secrets to taking and passing the PMP® exam
• Become focused on the areas where students typically have most difficulty
• Develop a better understanding of the concepts asked for in the PMP® Exam
• Use PM FASTrack® PMP® Exam Simulation Software to test your progress
• Develop a personalised study plan to help reduce your follow on study time

• Understand the importance of effective communication in projects
• Apply the right type of communication at the right time
• Identify the importance of understanding the listener
• Effectively resolve conflicts through effective communication
• Discover what makes a Leader and effective communicator
• Put communication in action with virtual teams
• Overcome communication barriers with project stakeholders

• Understand the dynamics of negotiations and how to maximise your chance of success
• Prepare in depth, focusing on both your own – and the other party’s – situation
• Use the four stages of negotiation effectively
• Follow a structured, positive process to move towards your goals
• Be confident in handling and applying pressure, dealing with tactics and saying 'No'
• Generate agreements that achieve results without damaging relationships

• New challenges project leaders are facing today in a flattening world
• The virtual team coordination model to lead and motivate project teams across cultures
• Self-awareness and social awareness to coordinate team members
• Virtual team context analysis and actions to meet project requirements
• Setting the virtual team operations
• Transforming the virtual team into a high performance team

• Understand the imperatives of leading edge performance culture
• Comprehend individual relating styles to others and learn how to adapt it to the context and situationIdentify individual and collective values & practices and learn how to bridge differences across cultures
• Work on the cultural consequences of international project management and acquire best practices
• Determine individual and collective actions to implement methods and tools learned

• Learn how to get results from individuals and teams by developing high performance climate and situational leadership styles
• Acquire the new imperatives and methods of Managing Project From Afar
• Master international team work (virtual team management) and learn how to adapt to individual cultural traits
• Determine individual and collective actions to implement methods and tools learned
  

• Perform objective assessments of project status with emphasis on early warning signs
• Identify success factors to avoid critical situations or failures
• Discover how to define and implement a recovery plan
• Effectively manage recovery actions and gain management buy-in during the recovery process
• Learn how to manage project stakeholder expectations
• Develop a detailed checklist for recovering your own projects

• Discover how to effectively introduce a new process into an organization
• Learn techniques for assembling and building a technical project team
• Manage risks unique to software development
• Use a Traceability Matrix and build in effective quality controls
• Build a flexible schedule that anticipates changes and evolutions
• Learn how to participate actively in an agile development project

• Learn how multiple projects can be effectively controlled, especially where change is ‘business as usual’
• Review the ‘show-stoppers’ which repeatedly impact upon the delivery of complex & multiple projects
• Analyze the strategic alignment of projects and issues around delivering trans-national projects
• Discover how Program Managers ensure a portfolio or program is managed at the correct level
• Explore what a ‘best practice’ organizational structure for the management of multiple projects looks like
• Develop a personal action plan to apply your learning back at work
  

• Learn project evaluation criteria and selection models to rank projects
• Apply right metrics to track, control, and successfully manage the portfolio
• Delineate criteria to terminate projects that are not meeting target objectives
• Use a scorecard for strategic alignment of projects in portfolios
• Discover practical project valuation using quantitative financial models

• Develop Enterprise-Wide Risk Management by understanding the hierarchy of business objectives
• Use Return on Sales, Return on Investment and Economic Value Added to analyse risk to the bottom line
• Investigate Business Care by assessing risks to business benefits
• Analyse Contractual Risks with financial metrics to assess impacts both to margin and cash flow
• Use Simulation Techniques including Monte Carlo simulation with @Risk® software
• Explaining Emotional Literacy, understanding and controlling risk attitudes
  
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• Refocus IT as a business tool thus challenging communication and culture
• Identify major shortcomings, and design and implement compelling performance improvement programmes
• Understand what constitutes the service engine and its relationship to the total business experience
• Assess IT and building an improvement programme
• Get familiar with a new maturity model for a changing market.
• Be Inspired by business outcomes rather than process

• Discover how to effectively introduce a new process into an organization
• Learn techniques for assembling and building a technical project team
• Manage risks unique to software development
• Use a Traceability Matrix and build in effective quality controls
• Build a flexible schedule that anticipates changes and evolutions
• Learn how to participate actively in an agile development project