Mastering Project Management

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3 day(s) , 18 instructional hours

About This Event:

In this advanced seminar, you will focus on the job of actually managing. Mastering Project Management addresses areas not covered in much depth by the Project Management Institute's PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge)--issues such as how decisions are made, faulty work processes, lack of innovation, and problem-solving deficiencies that often wreak havoc with projects.

Recommended For:

This program is designed for project managers who are well versed in the tools of project management. As a general rule, a candidate for this program should have been formally trained in a seminar similar to "Project Management: Tools, Principles and Practices." If you are unsure whether this seminar is for you, please call Jim Lewis at 540.345.7850 to discuss your concerns.

You Will:

Use quality functional deployment (QFD) in project management
Develop effective project strategies
Manage project risk
Improve estimating capability
Manage resources in project scheduling
Use cost/schedule control systems criteria
Improve performance
Manage innovation
Apply systems thinking to project management
Improve schedule performance
Deal with complex situations.

Topics Covered Include:

Thinking styles
The job of managing
Power and politics in projects
Defining success and failure in projects
Problem solving in projects
Managing innovation in projects
Improving decisions in projects
Improving project management processes
Methods of scheduling uncertainty
Change control in projects.

Additional Information:

This seminar is an elective for the Project Management Certificate.

Instructor(s):

Instruction Provided by the Lewis Institute, Inc.

The Lewis Institute has built a reputation for delivering practical, hands-on instruction that provides tools and techniques you can use immediately upon leaving the seminars to manage your own projects. The Lewis Institute insists that all of their instructors have real-world experience managing projects, so that they can go beyond the workbook content and answer your questions. Questions such as, "What to you do when....?" and "How do you handle a situation in which...?" These are the kinds of concerns that people have when they attend our programs; they want more than a textbook answer - they want "meat and potatoes."

You will also find the instructors very generous with their time in answering questions both during the class and after it is over. They freely give their email addresses to their clients and invite them to correspond with them. They treat you as a client, not a customer. The difference - a client is someone you care for, whereas a customer is simply someone who buys from you. The Lewis Institute is proud of their reputation and pleased to be working with the Office of Professional Development and the Industrial Extension Service to bring you the finest continuing education experience that you will find anywhere.