Effective Project Management
About the course
This highly practical course provides you with the essential skills, tools and techniques that you’ll need in your project management role.
The course is focused on exploring the fundamental principles of successful project management and incorporates a number of easy to apply effective tools and techniques that will allow you to become more confident and competent in managing a project.
The terminology and principles used throughout this course are designed to reflect the current syllabus for the Traditional Project Management (TPM) practices defined and matured in the world of the engineer and construction professionals.
Course Outcome
At the end of the training, the participants will be able to:
Understand the steps required to create a project plan by using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) processes defined by PMI (Project Management Institute)
Apply a simple lifecycle to a project to break it into easy to manage stages.
Clearly define your projects to provide real clarity in terms of project scope, time, cost, roles and responsibilities, and other key factors.
Confidently plan, organize and document a project by using a wide variety of tools that add value to the project management process.
Become more effective in monitoring and controlling the project work, change requests and resourcing pressures by using best practice processes and techniques.
Controlling project progress reports by S-Curve Analysis (Time, Cost, Scope)
Course Outline
Day 1
- International PM Standards
- Project – Portfolio –Program Management
- Project Life cycle
- Project Charter- Project Initiation Note
- Analyzing Stakeholders
- Project Management Plan
- Contract types
- Purchasing Plan
- Detailing the Project Scope – Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Detailing the work packages-activities list
- Estimation techniques
- Estimating duration and costs
Day 2
- Allocating resources
- Creating the project Schedule-Gantt Chart
- Analyzing the Critical Path
- Project Risk Analysis
- Project Optimization Techniques
- Saving the project baseline (Time-Cost-Scope)
Day 3
- Managing Project Execution
- Managing Quality
- Managing the project team
- Distributing information -reporting communication
- Collecting progress data
- Updating project progress
- Analyzing project progress (time, cost, scope)
- Quality Control
- Analyzing resource progress
- Reporting models
- Project re-planning techniques – recovering delays and putting the project back on track
- Formalizing the project closure process
- Lessons Learned and distributing information
- Project Management Processes overview
- Final examination
Course format
– Clasroom live
– Presentation
– Case studies
– Exercices
Lenght: 3 days
Schedule: 9:00-17:00
Where: Client/ Other
Language: english/french
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
Trainer: Senior Project Planning & Risk Management Consultant, MSc Engineering & Business Management PMP® Certified, experienced in Nuclear, Rail, Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Metro
Course Materials:
– Course manual
– PM templates
– Project Lifecycle guideline
– Ecostar Plan notebook and pen
Who should attend:
– Project Managers
– Engineers and Planners
– Chief Executive Officers
– Finance Managers
– Contracts and Claims Manager
– Project Risk Managers
– Document Controller
– PMO Support Engineer
– Cost Engineers
In what industries:
– Infrastructure
– Engineering and Construction
– Oil, Gas and Petrochemical
– Nuclear
– Power and Water Utility Plants
– Manufacturing and Industrial
– Government
– Aerospace
– Defense
– Financial Services
– Telecommunication
– Pharmaceuticals
– Environmental
– Shipbuilding
What you will get after the training
Course Manual
Certificate of completion
Case studies
Templates
Post course support
- Access to a local network for participants – continued development of PM skills, providing useful tools & information
- Access to our monthly meeting – giving students the possibility to stay in touch with the other students trained by Ecostar Plan
- Further courses recommendations
- Proven templates, guidelines
Why Ecostar Plan?
relevant industry experience
guaranteed quality
proven results
PM Consultants certified by
the Project Management Institute
understand real project needs
post course support
Benefits
According to international studies regarding PM Training results, companies had a 26% overall performance
improvement in 8 areas of project management due to their project management training programmes.
- Improved stakeholder satisfaction
- Improved schedule performance
- Decrease in project failures
- Increase is risk awareness
- Improved budget performance
- Improved productivity
- Better scope control
- Human Resources development
Evaluating training and results (ROI of Training)
Ecostar Plan by its experienced trainers is continuously evaluating training performance to show the value that programs have on the company through the following: - Reaction and value of the program
- Learning and confidence
- Application and implementation