Essential Skills for Managing Projects

Workshop Description:

This intensive course covers the broad range of skills needed to plan and manage projects of all types and sizes. Essential Skills for Managing Projects is ideal for introducing new project managers to the discipline. It is also ideal for experienced project managers looking for further expand their skill sets. Attendees benefit by learning in an interactive environment. They utilize project management techniques as a team during case-study-based exercises focusing on one of three specific areas:

Community Leadership Development - CLD
A generic case study designed to introduce the concepts and processes covered in The Griffin Tate Group CORE Project Management® Method methodology. This case study is centered on a volunteer organization starting and completing a project.

Information Technology - IT
This case study is oriented to the development of an e-commerce website being designed by an independent consulting company for a client's use in improving customer relationship management.

New Product Development - NPD
Centered on the research and development community, this case study uses typical issues involved in developing a new product with muti-disciplined teams using the The Griffin Tate Group CORE Project Management® Method methodology. 
 
As an option, teams and/or individuals may work on their own, real-world project while learning a team based, participative approach to project management. This workshop is led by specially trained and certified GTG Trainers. Essential Skills for Managing Projects includes a participant workbook and a copy of the Griffin Tate Group's best selling book, the Project Management Memory Jogger™.

Course Goal:
This course uses tools and techniques from Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. It is PMBOK ® (Project Management Body of Knowledge) aligned, which increases team effectiveness and participation in all phases of the project management process.

What you will learn:

• Foster team participation
• Create a team contract
• Create a charter
• Define the scope of a project
• Create a work break down structure
• Identify team members
• Develop a deliverables schedule
• Create a budget
• Assess risk and develop countermeasures to reduce risk
• Manage change
• Monitor project progress
• Close out the project

Course Outline:

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• Module i - Introduction
• Module 1 - Project Management Overview
• Module 2 - Initiation
• Module 3 - Planning: Project Scope
• Module 4 - Planning; Project Risk
• Module 5 - Planning: Team Composition
• Module 6 - Planning: Scheduling
• Module 7 - Planning: Staffing & Spending
• Module 8 - Execution
• Module 9 - Close Out
• Module 10 - Project Forms

Who should attend:

• Project Managers
• Project Leaders
• Project Team Members
• Project Stakeholders
• Project Sponsors

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