Engineers Ireland

Course aim

Standards of Project Management to help complete projects faster, cheaper and easier. It is also an ideal course for those people who need a refresher course in project management before they take the Project Management Institute's PMP® exam or our PMP® Exam Prep course. The main aim of this course is to enable practitioners manage their project with advance managerial techniques, which will allow them to delegate the tasks, set up assignment. Resource load the schedule, control the progress of the project in a budget phased manner.

Overview

Participants learn real-world PM techniques, plus advanced Tricks of the Trade® for dealing with issues that project managers face every day. In addition, participants will share their real-world project experiences with other PMs in a variety of industries. Learn to translate the International Standards for Project Management into real-world project management technologies and real-world applications!

Project Management Tricks of the Trade® is designed for project managers, team members, project offices and senior managers looking to acquire a firm grasp of specific steps in the project management process, or of the entire process from beginning to end. In addition, because this course teaches participants how to apply International PM standards in the real world, it can be taken as additional prep for people looking to earn one of a number of Internationally-recognized project management certifications.

Learning objectives

1. Define and describe common project management terminology.
2. Use a step-by-step process to manage projects faster while using fewer resources.
3. Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes in managing projects.
4. Apply the Tricks of the Trade® used by many project managers around the world in the IT, IS, New Product Development, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical and other industries.
5. Apply the International Project Management Standards from the Project Management Institute (the PMBOK® Guide) to real-world situations.
6. Define their role in the global project management process.  
7. Identify what knowledge and experience is needed to pass the Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Exam.
8. Defined the project scope and new techniques to control, track and monitor the progress of project.

Programme

• What is project management?
• The project management life cycle
• Tricks of the Trade® for getting started  
• Providing the target – the Project Charter  
• Individual Exercise – Charter
• Clarifying and defining project objectives – the Scope Statement
• Tricks for obtaining a finalised scope of work
• Tricks for determining what needs to be done – The Work Breakdown Structure
• Group and individual exercises – Work Breakdown Structure
• Determining who does what – Staffing the project with Responsibility Charts
• The role of team planning
• The role of the team in planning
• Individual Exercise - Network Diagram, Critical Path
• Determining how long it will take – Estimating  
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Schedule compression - Crashing and Fast Tracking
• Tricks of the Trade® for controlling projects
• Meeting goals, objectives and deadlines – Scope Management
• What needs to be controlled – Project Control
• What to watch for during executing
• Collecting task status
• Percent Complete
• Group Exercise – Creating a project control system
• Tricks of the Trade® for Change Management
• Finishing the product  
• Lessons learned  
• Creating historical records  
• Gaining final acceptance

Who should attend

• Project manager  
• Team Members
• Project Offices
• Senior Managers

Trainer's profile

Farzin Hosseini: MEngSc, BEngSc, MIEI, CEng, GradIstructE, MIABSE, PMP, MCTSPROJECT

Program and project manager working with virtual teams in international projects, 10+ experience. The projects consist of heavy civil infrastructures, commercial buildings, software development, research projects and portfolio management.