Our customized training program enables your organization to:
- Build a network of high-caliber professionals, navigate through conflict, and identify business needs to improve long-term strategic benefits
- Develop practical technical project management skills through hands-on tools and relevant case examples provided by subject expert instructors with extensive industry experience
- Leverage selection criteria and models to evaluate project economic returns from initiation through completion
- Understand the essential elements required to initiate a project, including the business case and project charter, utilizing estimation techniques appropriate for early phases of the project lifecycle
- Define project objectives and develop detailed project plans based on the project scope and Statement of Work (SOW), through a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), to effectively plan, integrate, and accomplish tasks
- Deploy key tools of project time planning, including precedence analysis and activity duration estimating, and identifying appropriate cost planning methods
- Compare measurements to projections and standards to utilize this information in diagnosis and replanning
- Understand project cost, schedule, and performance data to identify corrective actions
- Apply risk identification, assessment, and mitigation strategies to everyday situations
This program covers several specific topics and is typically organized into five to six sections or modules, as needed. Clients are encouraged to consider blending soft skills/power skills, such as communications, influence, or managing high-performance teams, into learning programs. Developers of complex systems should incorporate hooks between Systems Engineering methodologies and TPM approaches for robust and consistent execution.
Project Organization and Leadership
Examine the principles of effective program leadership and motivation and present practical methods for decision-making, conflict management, communications, and team development. Learn how to move forward and provide leadership and discernment when conflicting business needs arise.
Project Costing and Proposal Development
Learn how to evaluate project lifecycle cost, schedule, risk, and performance; understand how and when to respond to proposal opportunities. Perform the different estimating techniques appropriate for specific phases of the project life cycle. Understand the essential elements required to initiate a project, including the business case and charter.
Detailed Project Planning
Define what constitutes successful project planning, including scoping, estimating, budgeting, and scheduling. The course identifies common planning mistakes and pitfalls, and discusses practical work-arounds. Define project objectives, develop plans based on scope and SOW, use tools for time planning, understand cost planning methods.
Project Monitoring and Control
Apply the principles for tracking technical efforts against cost, schedule, and performance targets. Emphasis is on reporting progress, identifying performance problems before they become severe, and determining practical recovery approaches. Measure the project status and resources consumed and compare to projections/standards for diagnosis/re-planning.
Project Risk Management
Managing risk in mega, complex, and long-term projects requires nuanced approaches due to unique challenges like evolving technologies or potential critical events severity. A balanced risk management program is crucial for navigating these uncertainties. This course provides methodologies and tools for effective risk identification, evaluation, and mitigation. Through real-life case studies, participants will learn strategies for comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation, fostering project resilience and success.
Supplier Performance Management
Supplier Performance Management (SPM) involves comprehending supply chain operations and key processes, creating clear, executable requirements while identifying risks in work statements, contracts, and terminology, and conducting effective source selections and negotiations. SPM also includes recognizing early signs of potential supplier issues or communication barriers, devising strategies for resolution, and ensuring smooth, efficient partnerships and operations.
This certificate program is ideal for technical project professionals interested in developing their project management skills in technical industries. This program's focus spans large-scale mega projects, technical platforms, and R&D efforts with low Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs).
