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Technical Project Management
Seminar No: 04251 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.8
Length: 3 days
Integrate technical disciplines with project management skills to meet your business requirements!
Effectively manage projects related to science, engineering, research and development, construction, capacity expansion, instrumentation and control, plant outages and more. You'll understand the integration of technical disciplines in project management--and of scientific and technical requirements with general business needs.
Attendees:
Research and development managers, engineering managers (across all specialties), scientists and principal investigators (from all biological and physical disciplines), project engineers, facility and industrial engineers, plant managers and anyone who administers technical projects.
How You Will Benefit:
- Apply work breakdown structures (WBS) and network development
- Identify potential problems and avoid them using troubleshooting techniques
- Track and predict projects more effectively
- Create status reports that show top management where budgeting, scheduling and manpower trends are headed
- Effectively handle difficult personality clashes
- Cope with tight schedules
- Take on a real leadership role in your department
What You Will Cover:
- Project management: benefits, key terms and concepts
- Defining time, cost, scope and associated tradeoffs and negotiations
- Project leadership
- Transforming project objectives into a work plan
- Project scheduling: Network Logic and Dependency Analysis...estimating the work
- Project milestone plan
- Scope control and plan management
- Project closure: documenting lessons learned
Extended/Detailed Seminar Outline
Learning Objectives
- Apply Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Network Development
- Identify Potential Problems and Avoid Them Using Troubleshooting Techniques
- Track and Predict Projects More Effectively
- Create Status Reports That Show Top Management Where Budgeting,
- Scheduling and Manpower Trends are Headed
- Effectively Handle Difficult Personality Clashes
- Cope with Tight Schedules
- Take on a Real Leadership Role in Your Department
Foundations for Success: The Core Concepts
- Terminology
- The Need for Project Management
- The Six Functions of Management
- The Guide to the PMBOK"
- Generic Life-Cycle Processes
- The Nine Knowledge Areas
How to Lead and Direct Project Teams
- Describe the Functions of Leadership
- Lead Others by Communicating, Motivating, and Solving Problems
- Give Direction to Others
- Supervise Work
- Reward and Correct Behavior
How to Define Project Scope and Requirements
- Describe Project Scope Using Terminology Consistent with the Primary References
- Use Definitive and Distinguishing Graphics to Support Your Description
- Distinguish between in-and Out-of-Scope Conditions
- Document the as-Is and to-Be Conditions to Include Critical Success Factors and Critical Success Measures
How to Develop the Project Work Plan-The Work Breakdown Structure
- Define and Document the Project Work
- Develop Project Templates
- Define Appropriate Levels of Work for Groups
- Determine Skills Needed to Achieve the Work
How to Define Task Dependencies and Create Network Logic Diagrams
- Describe Logical Dependencies
- Create a Logic Network
- Calculate Forward and Backward Pass
- Calculate Free and Total Float
- Determine the Critical Path
How to Estimate Work
- Estimate Duration for Project Tasks
- Estimate labor Content for Project Tasks
- Price Out the WBS
- Complete and Estimate Network
How to Produce and Integrated Project Plan
- Create and Document an IPP
- Communicate the Plan to Others
- Secure Necessary Buy-ins, Commitments, and Approvals
Project Monitoring and Control
- Determine the Status of All Plan Parameters
- Detect Current and Future Variance
- Prepare Reports
- Develop Alternative Plans for Corrective Action
- Secure Approvals
- Communicate Revisions to the Approved Plans
How to Close a Project
- Team Members are Concerned about Their Next Assignment
- The Client or User Organization is Concerned about Loss of Technical Competence and Operational Skill When You Leave the Project
- Management Wants You to Start the Next Project Immediately
- Functional Managers are Curious about How Their People Performed
- Everyone Wants to Know What Lessons Can Be Learned from This Experience
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