Overview:
This workshop gives seasoned project managers the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully
manage increasingly complex project issues to meet desired goals and objectives. Assuming a mastery
of project planning, this workshop extends skills to the remaining project management processes
covering areas such as avoiding mistakes when executing and controlling a project, dealing with
evolving stakeholder expectations, using trend analysis to measure project performance and improving
project outcomes. PDUs: 24 credits.
Audience:
Those who have mastered the planning process, are experienced with all aspects of the
discipline, and are now looking for ways to develop their execution and control skills on larger, more
complex projects.
Prerequisites:
Experience in reading and analyzing outputs from scheduling software such as
Microsoft® Project. Experience in managing projects. Fast Start® In Project Management or Project
Management for Information Systems.
Course duration:
3 days
Course outline:
1. Introduction
- Welcome to Advanced Project
- Management
- Workshop Logistics
- Workshop Materials
- How to Get the Most Out of this
Workshop
2. Project Selection and Initiation
- Initiating Projects
- When Do Projects Start? Defining the
Project Life Cycle
- Tips for Defining the Start of a Project
- Considerations for Initiating Projects
- Strategic Planning
- Prioritizing Projects
- Selecting Projects
- Key Elements of the Initiating Process
- Guidelines for Project Initiation
3. Project Execution Methodology
- Project Execution Methodology
- Starting Project Work
- The Value of a Good Start
- Ensuring a Successful Start to Project
Work
- What Planning Outputs are Needed, and
How Good Must They Be?
4. Project Variance and Control
- A Framework for Performance
- Reporting
- Understanding Different Types of
- Metrics
- How Metrics Interact
- Measuring Projects and Generating
- Metrics Reports
- Interpreting Project Metrics
- Baseline Metrics
- Earned Value Management
- Earned Value Management Variance
- Analysis
- Earned Value Management Forecasting
- Variance
- Earned Value Management ToComplete Performance Index
- (TCPI)
- Understanding the Causes of Variance
- Defining Project Variance
- Understanding Different Types of
- Project Variance
- Root Contributors to Variance
- Methods for Identifying Root
- Contributors
- Taking Corrective Action to Overcome
- Variance
- Definition/Intention of Corrective
- Action
- Understanding Points of Leverage
- Managing Change, Quality, and Risk
- Responding to the Dynamic Nature of
- Projects
- Using Process to Create Transparency
- Control Processes for Project Change
- Quality Control
- Quality Assurance
- Risk Monitoring and Control Process
5. Project Closure and Learning
- The Closing Process
- The Challenge of Project Closure
- When and How to Learn from Projects
- Initial Sizing
- Detailed Estimating
- Unforeseen Events
- Project Closure Reporting and Archiving
- Processes
- What is a Stakeholder Change?
- Assessing the Impact of Stakeholder
- Change on Your Project
- Responding to Stakeholder Change
- Scaling Project Management to Meet the
- Project Needs
- Factors in Scaling Project Management
- Identifying and Protecting the Core
- Project Management Processes
- Stakeholder Commitment and Team
Resources
- Inhibitors to Future Success and How to
Deal with Them
- Estimates that Don’t ?Work?
- Non-Participating Stakeholders
- Vague or Uncommitted Resources
- Other Inhibitors to Getting Work Done
- The Process for Commencing Project
Work
- Communicating the Start of Project
Work
- Coordinating the Start of Project Work
- Key Learning Points
- Getting Work Done
- Facilitating Project Work
- Communicating Work Expectations
(Work Authorization)
- Managing Issues and Action Items
- Key Learning Points
- Progress, Status, and Forecasting
- Capturing Progress
- Updating the Schedule
- Forecasting – Predicting Future Project
Work
- Step 1 — Obtain Formal Acceptance
- Step 2 — Shut Down the Work Engine
- Step 3 — Analyze Metrics, Baseline,
and Change Data
- Step 4 — Evaluate Processes and
Documentation
- Step 5 — Documenting Project Events
and Circumstances
- Step 6 — Generating Lessons Learned
- Step 7 — Finalize and Share the Project
Closure Report
- Step 8 — Celebrating the End of the
Project
- Step 9 — Archive the Project Records
- Step 10 — Conduct Follow-Up Surveys
as Negotiated
6. Summary and Conclusion
- Where We’ve Been
- Where to Go Next
- Appendix A – Managing Projects
- Better with Process
- Intent and Ownership of Processes
- Process as a Tool for Success in Project
- Management
- Differentiating Between Project
- Management and Product
- Development
- Overviews of Methodologies
- Value of a Project Management
- Methodology
- Using a Methodology
- Creating a Methodology
7. Appendix B – “Special Situations
(That Happen All the Time)
- Managing Several Projects
- Simultaneously
- Priority
- Process
- Workflow
- Taking Over Ongoing Projects
- Establishing Credibility and Project
- Visibility
- Inventory the Project to Find Leverage
- Points
- ?Threading? Your Methodology to an
- Ongoing Project
- Stakeholder Change
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