Project Management: Tools, Principles, and Practices

About This Event:

Take the guesswork out of project management! If managing projects to get results is important to your organization, you can't afford a seat-of-the-pants approach. Here are proven tools and techniques used by world-class companies to make their projects sizzle! With these methods, your projects will come in on time, on budget, and at the right level of performance. This is not a theoretical, academic program, but a true nuts-and-bolts, no-nonsense approach to project management, taught by a seasoned project manager.

Your instructor applies the latest methods of learning technology to accelerate your learning and increase your retention so that you can apply these important tools. We will simulate a project through four group exercises that help you see how all techniques relate to each other.

Recommended For:

This program will benefit project managers whose job involves engineering, data processing, information technology, construction, research and development, manufacturing, maintenance, corporate planning, finance, marketing, and quality. The principles you'll learn can be applied to any kind of project.

You Will:

Learn how to manage every aspect of a project to achieve schedule, cost, and performance objectives
Learn how develop and coordinate the total project plan
Learn how to avoid the ten most common causes of project failure
Learn how to manage the project life cycle
Learn how to use the WBS to estimate time and cost
Be able to improve performance by evaluating projects.

Topics Covered Include:

How to master the concepts and methods needed to manage resources efficiently to achieve project goals
How to construct achievable project schedules, using CPM, PERT, and BAR charts
How to develop valid estimates of resource requirements and costs by applying the Work Breakdown Structure
How to monitor and control project status using Earned Value Analysis and other methods
The Lewis Method of project management
How to develop a risk management plan
How to use the schedule to manage the project
How ignoring resource limitation produces a worthless schedule!
How to forecast project completions
How to avoid the common causes of project failure.

Additional Information:

This event is required 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.