Project Management for Results

Project
Management
Receive up to 27.5 PDUs
and 30 CPE Credits!
for Results
February 2–6, 2009
Washington, DC
Learn How to Finish Your Project on Time, Within Budget
and to the Customer’s Expectations
Featuring Two Interactive Forums:
Project Management for Results
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Describe the Difference Between Operations, Projects
and Programs
Understand the Project Life Cycle
Identify Key Project Stakeholders and Create the Project Team
Describe the Organizational Influences that May Affect
Your Project
Earned Value Management
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Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close Out a Program
Understand and Use EVM Tools and Techniques
Forecast Final Program Costs and Scheduling Using
EVM Methods
Understand the Four Elements of Project
Management: Project Initiation, Project Planning,
Project Execution and Project Close Out
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Manage Project Risk and
Recover Failing Projects Using
This Step-by-Step Methodology
Dear Project Managers:
Managing projects with financial efficiency, on schedule, and reasonably
within cost is no easy task. Being able to build a solid foundation of project
management techniques and tools is vital to project success. Overcoming
poor project planning, faulty definition of project scope and lack of
transparency on project performance increases the chances of significant
project risks. In order to address these challenges, skilled project managers
are needed to help bring project costs and timing within an acceptable
level. This interactive training will cover the entire project life cycle and
allow you to return to work with the knowledge and tools you need to get
your projects started right and completed effectively.
Project Management for Results
Specifically aligned with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI)
framework, this training is designed to focus on the practical application
of concepts and real life situations. You will use hands-on activities and
exercises to successfully bring a project from initiation to execution.
The skills learned at Project Management for Results will help you better
understand how to manage a project from start to finish and how to
accelerate your own career.
Earned Value Management
Not allowing your project to control you can prove to be a very difficult
task. Learn to be proactive in its monitoring and control by using Earned
Value to promote effective project planning, supervision and control.
This training will help you identify potential cost and schedule overruns
and grasp the tools and techniques required to compare actual work
accomplished against baseline schedules and cost. Discover what must be
done to effectively implement and use Earned Value Management in your
organization today.
The Latest Methodologies in Project Management
Get caught up to speed and find out what the latest methodologies in
project management are according to the PMBOK®. Gain the knowledge of
how to successfully describe the differences between operations, projects
and programs. You will walk away from this training able to define
roles, review the necessary skills of project managers and identify
possible competency gaps, ultimately increasing your capabilities as a
project manager.
What
You Will Learn:
• Acquire the Skills to Define and
Plan Projects
• Use Hands-on Activities and
Exercises to Successfully
Bring a Project from Initiation
to Execution
• Break Project Work Down into
Meaningful Tasks
• Develop Project
Performance Measurement
and Reporting Standards
• Understand Critical Factors for
Reclaiming Troubled Projects
• Develop an Integrated
EVM System
Who
Should Attend?
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Project Mangers
Portfolio Managers
Program Managers
PMPs
Project Support Staff
Acquisition and Procurement
Officials
IT Architects
CAPMs
I invite you to join us at The Performance Institute’s Project Management for
Results, from February 2-6, 2009, in Arlington, VA. Register today by calling
(703) 894-0481 or visiting us online at www.PerformanceWeb.org.
Regards,
Michael A. Ford.
Director
Center for Project Management
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Keep Your Projects on Target
to Achieve Cost, Schedule and
Performance Goals
Day One Agenda: February 2, 2009
8:00
Registration & Continental Breakfast
1:00
Project Initiation Phase
9:00
Introduction to Project Management: The
Latest Methodologies in Project Management
According to the PMBOK
• Describe the differences between operations,
projects and programs
• Understand key organizational influences that may
affect a project
• Define roles, develop necessary skills and identify
competency gaps
10:00
Review the Terminology: Understand
Key Concepts and Terms for Enhanced
Project Performance
• Review key project management terminology
as it relates to the PMBOK and project
management methodology
• Distinguish between the various roles and
responsibilities of project stakeholders
• Learn key stakeholder techniques for the first
customer/sponsor meeting
• Develop strategies for defining what information is
needed from the sponsor and how to get it
• Identify and describe project requirements in clear
and understandable terms
2:00
Project Organization Phase
• Define roles and develop necessary skills to
effectively deliver on planned objectives
• Align your project team requirements with current
organizational structures and government standards
• Create and use a skills inventory matrix
3:00
Create the Project Charter
• Review criteria to determine exactly what is needed
in the project charter documents
• Develop best in class techniques for executing a
project charter with full sponsor’s approval
11:00
Develop Project Management Skills
for Success
• Utilize various methods to enhance project
team building
• Understand the key organizational influences that
may affect a project
12:00
Lunch Break
4:00
Adjourn
“The real life examples used by the
instructor helped my understand all
of the course materials presented”
Monica Sharta, IADB
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Acquire the Skills to Define
and Plan Major Projects
Day Two Agenda: February 3, 2009
8:30
Continental Breakfast
1:00
Define Project Estimates
• Understand and identify the components of a project
description document
• Develop techniques to clarify major deliverables
• Understand the difference between cost estimating
and cost budgeting
• Discover the difference between a contingency
reserve and a management reserve
• Develop an “expected value” process to create a
defensible contingency reserve
10:00
2:00
Develop a Work Breakdown Structure
Analyze the Network Diagram
• Describe the purpose of a Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
• Understand and use two techniques for
creating a WBS
• Learn to incorporate project stakeholders
• Monitor project timing and resources and manage
the links between them
• Obtain information to resolve project and program
problems and make decisions
• Minimize and establish realistic project duration while
maintaining overall cost and design requirements
9:00
Key Techniques for Defining a Project
11:00
Construct a Preliminary Schedule and
Network Diagram
• Create a network diagram and identify the
critical path
• Identify early and late schedules and
manage resources
• Produce a preliminary GANTT chart
12:00
Lunch Break
3:00
Manage Project Progress: Integrate the
Gantt Chart
• Graphically document, manage, and monitor project
progress to effectively minimize setbacks
• Maintain project scope and take remedial action to
get projects back on course
• Determine resources needed and manage
dependencies between tasks
4:00
Adjourn
“The hands on labs and exercises
were one of the many strong
points of this training”
Jeff Shimizu, Drummond Company
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Understand the Project Manager’s
Role in Team Development
Day Three Agenda: February 4, 2009
8:30
Continental Breakfast
9:00
Utilize and Load Organizational Resources
• Maintain and assign people, facility and equipment
resources accordingly
• Understand the difference between generic and
specific level resources
• Learn to actively adjust loads and variable expenses
10:00
Create the Project Budget
• Identify your costs and develop your own project
budgeting process
• Create a baseline used to determine whether the
project is on track
• Learn to include unconventional items such as
meetings and license fees
1:00
Collect and Analyze Project Status
• List the types of information that should be collected
at each status period
• Describe the issues related to project tracking
• Understand the difference between qualitative and
quantitative data and why both are necessary
2:00
Report Project Status Phase
• Describe the purpose for reporting project status
and the six qualities of a well-written variance
analysis report
• Hear the types of content that can be included in
a status report
• Understand the value and uses of regular
team meetings
3:00
Project Closeout Phase
11:00
Optimize the Project Plan
• Describe the optimizing purpose and create a
process plan
• Develop key strategies for optimizing the
project plan
• Learn to manage project status and
anticipate problems
• Name the three steps to closing out a project and
the several choices for project close-out activities
• Learn the purpose of conducting a project
close-out review
• Create a project file for future performance reviews
4:00
Adjourn
12:00
Lunch Break
“Logical and easy to follow presentation.
The exercises were to the point”
Tom Walsh, True MFG
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Utilize Best-Practice Strategies
for Breaking Project Work Down
into Meaningful Tasks
Day Four Agenda: February 5, 2009
Earned Value Management
8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00
Updates on the Latest Earned
Value Management Mandates
and Guidance in Government
• Receive updates on EVM
mandates including OMB and
Exhibit 300 requirements
• Explore agency specific changes
in policy and standards for EVMS
• Meet EVM reporting
requirements, reduce costs and
harness EVM information to better
manage projects
10:00
Introduction and Overview to
Earned Value Management
(EVM): Methodologies, Tools
and Terminology
• Learn the background and
history of EVM
• Understand how EVM differs from
traditional project management
• Define the principles of
EVM across various
organizational functions
12:00
Lunch Break
1:00
Develop the EVM
Organization
• Create continuous improvement
methods by sharing project
lessons learned, metrics and
best practices
• Incorporate the Statement of
Work (SOW) as a scope
communication tool
• Utilize the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) as a
management control tool
2:00
Assess the Program
Organization Structure and
Defining Organizational
Elements
• Establish and differentiate
between the WBS vs. Organization
Breakdown Structure
• Control accounts and Control
Account Managers (CAM)
4:00
Adjourn
Project Management
On-Site Training
One of the more popular vehicles
for accessing the Institute’s Project
Management education programs
has been on-site delivery of
training. On-site training allows
you to select course content
that directly relates to your
team’s needs. More importantly,
the Institute’s on-site training
courses draw examples from
your organization or agency and
typically use a “case study” project
that can be used as an actual work
product for your team later on.
Institute training managers stand
ready to help define your needs
and craft a customized in-house
training program for you and
your team.
In-House Training Topics Include:
• Project Management for Results
• Earned Value Management
• IT Project Management
• Managing Project Risk
• Project Management for
Procurement
• PMP® Exam Prep
For more information about inhouse training options, contact
Mark Bryan at 703-894-0481 or
Bryan@PerformanceWeb.org.
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Develop Effective Techniques
for Effective Project Planning
Day Five Agenda: February 6, 2009
8:30
1:00
Registration and Continental
Breakfast
Maintain Proper
Analysis and Management
Reporting Practices
9:00
• Understand the difference
between work accomplished
and work planned
• Assess project schedule outcomes
in relation to project scope
• Develop an efficiency rating tool
using work accomplished and
resources expended
Establish EVM Planning,
Scheduling and Budgeting
Measurement Baselines
• Learn standard EVM terminology
• Create work packages and
planning packages for tracking
progress and adapting to
unplanned obstacles
• Develop a program schedule and
action plan and decide on goals
that align to the operating budget
11:00
Develop a Budget Allocation
and Resource Management
Plan
• Establish the Performance
Measurement Baseline
(PMB) and apply performancebased incentives
• Create clear practices for
sanctioning all project work
through work authorization
• Rescue programs that are over
budget and beyond scope
2:00
Master Project Improvement
through Revisions and
Maintenance
• Advance changes in agency
business requirements with
periodic revisions to policies,
standards and guidelines
• Convert planning packages to
work packages
• Learn how to rebaseline for failing
and troubled projects
Key
Methodologies Covered
The project management process
described in this course is
intended to enable the project
manager to produce the project
deliverables in the least amount
of time, for the lowest cost
and with the highest quality.
Developed from the Project
Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK) written by PMI, this
course teaches to develop
specified goals, objectives and
deliverables to project managers
and prepares for controlling the
elements of the project.
4:00
Adjourn
12:00
Lunch Break
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Exhibiting & Sponsorship:
To learn more about exhibiting and sponsorships
at 2009 Project Management for Results please
contact Kwami Attipoe at 703-894-0920 or email
him at Attipoe@PerformanceWeb.org.
Registration
Venue & Hotel
Project Management for Results will be held at the Performance
Institute’s Training Center in Arlington, VA. A continental breakfast will
be provided each morning.
Conference Address:
The Performance Institute
1515 N. Courthouse Rd.
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington
Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $209.00 until
January 5, 2009. Please call the hotel directly and reference code
“Project Management Training” when making reservations to get the
discounted rate. The hotel is conveniently located three blocks from the
Rosslyn Metro station. Please ask the hotel about a complimentary
shuttle that is also available for your convenience.
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott
1533 Clarendon Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-528-2222
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Tuition & Group Discounts
Early Bird Rate
Regular Rate
Project Management for Results
$1499
$1699
Earned Value Management
$1099
$1299
Both
$2499
$2899
For more information on group discounts for Project Management for
Results Training please contact David Yerks at 858-874-6876 or email him
at Yerks@ManagementWeb.org.
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PDUs
PMI Registered Education Provider
PDUs: Earn up to 27.5 for both trainings
combined
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CPE Credits
Delivery Method: Group-live
Program Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
CPE Credits: 30
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