Project Management: A Team Approach For Accountability And Results

This course is PMI certified and awards 13 PDUs upon completion.
Have you ever been involved in a project where the goals were unclear or impossible, the specs kept changing, or resources were given and taken away? Much of what affects a project cannot be helped, but there are many obstacles to productivity and success that can be prevented, anticipated, or eliminated.
"Everybody knows" you're supposed to communicate when working as part of a team, and "everybody knows" what happens when we make assumptions and don't take the time to check them out with others. Everybody also knows how much it can cost - in time, resources, customer satisfaction and team morale. But knowing all this doesn't always ensure that people do communicate or check out assumptions, or even that they have the skills and framework within which to do so.
Using a mix of presentation, group interaction, experiential exercises, and applying all the steps to your own projects, this powerful 2-day course gives you and your team the common framework, skills, methodology, and language to generate the accountability and superior results you know are possible. It gives you access to real data - not just opinions or "gut feelings" - that you can use in your interactions with project sponsors and customers to negotiate and set expectations for achievable results.
Objectives
Establish a common language and set of processes that can be applied to all your projects.
Gain a better understanding of the major factors that impact projects, and learn how to more successfully manage your projects
Use Project Team Dynamics to improve the people side of project management
Understand Project Processes - the methods and tools that make a difference in achieving project objectives
Apply the principles of project management to a real project.
Learn how to use the course workbook and other materials as a reference for your projects.
Day 1 - Define and Organize the Project
Introduction - Project Team Simulation Exercise
Define and Organize the Project
Project Initiation and Team Definition
Project Objective and Priority Matrix
Project Team Planning Meeting
Project Infrastructure Checklist
Validation Meeting with Sponsor
Day 2 - Plan and Manage the Project
Plan the Project
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Dependency Diagram and Critical Path Method (CPM)
Optimization Plans
Risk Analysis and Management Plans
Validation Meeting with Sponsor
Set the Project Baseline
Begin Change Management Process
Manage Progress to Plan
Collect Status Information
Identify and Analyze Variances
Reports on Progress to Plan
Close Out the Project
Project Retrospective and Team Meeting
The subject matter was very relevant for our company. This is an excellent program to get management and executives to buy into a company wide process whereby the company would be on the same page.
I am recommending to my boss that our whole department take this training.