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Provided by: Key Consulting Project Management for Smaller OrganizationsProject Management |
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Training
Provided by Key Consulting
Are you an "accidental" project manager in a small business ? Do you have project management responsibilities in addition to your "real" job ? Need to run better projects ? Here's your opportunity to get help - attend this four-hour project management seminar.
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone interested in improving their project management skills. It is aimed at both small businesses, and small departments within large organizations (e. g. human resources, marketing).
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Project Management for Smaller Organizations
By the end of the course you will be able to :
- Develop better project plans, and reduce project risk.
- Quickly define the scope of your projects.
- Avoid being overwhelmed by the unknowns in your projects.
- Capture the complexity of your projects, and explain them to others.
- Stay on top of a projects when they’re underway.
- Spend less time “fighting fires”, and more time on your business.
- Present a more professional management image to your clients.
- Complete your projects on time, and to budget.
Course Details
- Length: 4 hours.
- Style: Instructor-led, using PowerPoint presentations, facilitated discussions, individual and group exercises.
- Format: Classroom – no computers required.
- Prerequisites: None.
Course Content
- Introduction
- What is a project ?
- What is project management ?
- Why are small organizations different ?
- What is PMI ?
- Time/ Quality/ Cost
- What is the PM process ?
- Project Charter
- Stakeholders
- Define Project Scope
- What is a WBS ?
- Construct an Initial Plan
- Network Diagrams
- Durations - Effort/ Time
- Calculating the schedule
- The importance of "float"
- Obtain Stakeholder Buy-in
- Publish the plan
- Collect Progress Information
- Percent Complete
- Remaining Duration
- Analyze Current Status
- Critical Path
- Adjust schedule - compression, parallelism
- Float
- Close Project
- Documentation
- Lessons Learned
- Summary
- Checklists
- Common Project Pitfalls
About The Training Provider: Key Consulting
Key Consulting - Key Consulting works with and trains organizations of all sizes to improve the management of projects. With offices in Seattle, Washington and Tucson, Arizona, Key Consulting helps local businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations around the country.
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