Training Classes / Calendar
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| 9/28/2010 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Location: Portland State Business Accelerator |
Overview:
Successful projects are critical because they are how most organizations create new products, systems, or services. Yet too many projects fail because of poor project management. This course introduces students to the foundations of successful project management, especially in a technology environment. Students will learn key project management concepts, then immediately apply them in a hands-on team simulation.
This 16-hour course approaches project management from the standpoint of managing a single, stand-alone project that is small to medium in size. It takes students through the project life cycle in the same sequence they would face when managing a real project in the workplace. Topics include initiating a project, defining scope, planning a project, executing and controlling a project, and doing closeout. The course is compliant with the latest edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
How You Will Benefit:
By the end of the two-day class, you will understand how to manage a project from beginning to successful completion. You will understand how to:
- Explain the role and value of project management.
- Recognize common causes of project success and failure.
- Balance competing priorities.
- Identify individual and team skills that affect the success of a project.
- Initiate a project using chartering and a project kickoff.
- Set stakeholder expectations early.
- Identify deliverables and requirements, and create plans for managing them.
- Perform the activities needed for a successful project planning phase.
- Break down deliverables into tasks and activities using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
- Identify dependencies between tasks and estimate the effort required to complete the tasks.
- Develop a schedule, resource plan, and budget that fit the project.
- Identify and manage risks.
- Plan for communication, quality, scope changes and procurement.
- Monitor project progress, steer a project during execution, and take corrective action.
- Increase team motivation and performance.
- Close out a project with requirements verification, acceptance and handoff.
- Complete a lessons learned review.
Course Outline:
Day 1 - September 21, 2010
1. Overview of project management
Why projects succeed and fail
Does project management work?
Project lifecycles
Human factors
2. Initiating and defining a project
Tune your approach
How projects are selected
Defining business reasons and deliverables for the project
Chartering
Managing stakeholders
Developing a cost-benefit analysis for the project
Constraints, assumptions and high level risks
Roles and responsibilities
Kicking off the project
3. Teams and people
Characteristics of effective project leaders
Forming project teams
Organizational structures
4. Scope planning
Costs of inadequate planning
Seven questions of planning
Requirements gathering
Work breakdown structure
Activity definition and sequencing
Critical path
Resource and duration estimating
Advanced estimating and planning techniques
Developing a realistic schedule
Day 2 - September 28, 2010
5. Managing risks
Identification
Prioritization
Assessment
Taking action
6. Project management planning
Making tradeoffs
Getting resources
Communications planning
Defining roles and responsibilities
Project management controls
Quality planning
7. Executing and controlling
Proactive cycle of project control
Measuring progress
Steering the project
Resolving issues
Team performance
Information distribution
Change control
Quality assurance & control
8. Closeout
Verification and acceptance
Project handoff
Lessons learned and team acknowledgements
Final reporting and administrative closeout
Finalizing documentation
9. Action planning
Who Should Attend:
Engineers, scientists, clinicians, researchers, administrators, continuous improvement specialists, quality assurance personnel, or other technical professionals who are responsible for product, process, or test development, improvement who must organize and manage small to medium-sized projects.
Prerequisites:
Previous experience in a project environment is helpful, but not required
Cost:
Two-day course (Day 1 of 2) PLEASE RESISTER FOR THIS CLASS THROUGH DAY 1 OF 2 POSTING
Cost: $550 per student for OBA members and $600 per student for non-members : Tution includes class, text book (The FAST FORWARD MBA in Project Management by Eric Verzuh), bound presentation, and lunch for both days.
Instructor: Jeff Oltmann
Jeff’s extensive experience includes running the Program Management Office (PMO) and a $60M project portfolio for IBM’s development facility in Oregon. He has managed new product development with program budget over $100M and worldwide cross-functional teams of over 100 members. His engineering teams have delivered many successful products to the marketplace, including multiple generations of mainframe-class computer systems.
Jeff’s background is a unique combination of engineering, program management, and executive staff, enabling him to move easily from the boardroom to the lab. Jeff’s "in the trenches" track record in product development ranges from start-ups to large corporations, including industry pioneers like Sequent, IBM, Prisma and Gould. Jeff is on the faculty of the Management of Science and Technology department at the Oregon Graduate Institute, where he teaches project management. He is a certified Project Management Professional® (PMP) and a member of the Institute of Management Consultants. |
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