This course addresses the project management challenges unique to IT. Learn to use project management “best practices.” Apply effective techniques for requirements definition and management, planning and scheduling, as well as methods to identify, analyze, and manage risks. Discover techniques for determining resource requirements, ways to best work with vendors and contractors, and tools to track and control the project. Recognize what must be done to complete your IT projects on schedule, within budget, and according to performance specifications to ensure client satisfaction.
Can project management be fun? You bet! HP’s Race to Results Project Management Simulation is an exciting, high energy team activity that clearly illustrates the business benefits of project management. This experiential learning, facilitated by the world of motor racing, causes breakthrough understanding of how multiple projects must be orchestrated to maximize bottom line enterprise results.
Test drive the HP Race to Results Simulation in ½ day! This comprehensive, multiple project simulation is an exciting high energy team activity that clearly illustrates the business benefits of project management. This experiential learning, facilitated by the world of motor racing, causes breakthrough understanding of how multiple projects must be orchestrated to maximize bottom line enterprise results.
This 3-day course provides the fundamental concepts, processes, and techniques to successfully manage projects. It features the exciting hands-on Race to Results Simulation that provides project management experience set in the context of motor racing. Learned Project Management Fundamentals are immediately practiced in a multiple project team environment to maximize achievement of enterprise objectives. Lessons learned are captured and discussed relative to the participant’s work environments.
Increase the probability of project success by learning techniques to reduce the threat of negative risk and enhance the opportunities associated with positive risk. Learn how to prepare a comprehensive risk management plan. Discover different approaches to identify, assess, and quantify risks and their impacts. Learn risk prioritization and mitigation techniques, as well as approaches to monitor, control, and communicate risks throughout the project life cycle.
Develop the necessary skills to get the maximum performance from every member of your team. Apply the methods of leadership that are most appropriate for achieving project success. Discover which forms of leadership and communication styles are best suited to your personality. Learn techniques for resolving conflict and managing personnel issues. Gain hands-on experience in analyzing stages of team development and maximizing project team effectiveness.
Be proactive and in control of your project. Effective cost and schedule management are cornerstone activities of projects. Determine how best to plan the execution of a project scope, considering stakeholder budget and schedule constraints. Establish the performance measurement baseline (PMB). Gain proficiency in the tools and techniques used to compare actual work accomplished against established plans. By identifying early warning indicators, you will gain greater insight into potential risk areas and take the necessary corrective action to keep the project in control.
Don’t let your project control you; be proactive in its monitoring and control. Use Earned Value in Project Management to promote effective project planning, monitoring, and control. Discover keys to identify potential cost and schedule overruns. Grasp the tools and techniques to compare actual work accomplished against baseline schedules and cost. Identify early warning indicators to gain greater insight into potential risk areas and prepare more accurate completion time and cost forecasts. Recognize what must be done to successfully implement and use Earned Value in your organization.
This course is for agency professionals working with U.S. Federal Government Finance who are involved with capital asset investment and the Exhibit 300. The course integrates current guidance with progressive performance management processes, including business case development, to ensure compliance and optimization of the capital programming/budgeting process.
This intensive course focuses on fundamental quality management tenets of leading thinkers such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby. Learn how quality is related to virtually all areas of a project. Use proven tools and techniques for planning and implementing quality methods in a project environment. Discover valuable sampling and assessment techniques to guarantee project quality management. Gain expertise in quality standards of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Six Sigma, and Baldridge.
Discover the critical actions in procuring outside services and products — from the initial decision to buy through final contract closeout. Recognize what must be done for success in the six key Project Procurement Management processes: procurement planning, solicitation planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract closeout. Formulate the make-or-buy decision, prepare an effective procurement management plan to guide the team, and use outsourcing for maximum benefit. Lessons and best practices from procurement theory and experience are also presented.
Stop scope creep! Analyzing and managing requirements are cornerstone activities for any successful project. Discover keys to identify, write, analyze, and manage requirements for your projects. Master proven requirements tools and techniques. Ensure that your requirements management process results in project success.
How do you control multiple projects that are dispersed globally? The global aspects of today’s businesses present additional challenges in terms of project integration and communication management. Learn to effectively manage conflicting priorities and limited resources inherent to all projects. Discover tools and techniques that help you address these challenges and work effectively with multiple projects in geographically dispersed environments. Develop the skills and knowledge to manage culturally diverse teams.
This 5-day accelerated course is geared toward participants who seek to kick-start their preparations for the PMP® exam. Focus on the five PMBOK® Guide processes and the nine knowledge areas, as well as the critical topic of professional responsibility. Discover key concepts to apply as you manage projects. Obtain the PDUs you need to take the exam. Gain confidence by answering sample exam questions.
Learn to continuously assess IT risk factors and implement effective strategies to address them. Discover a proven method for risk management that you can use throughout your project. Use a comprehensive approach to establish a risk program and prepare a sound risk management plan. Develop techniques to identify risks and gain knowledge of tools to analyze them and determine their impacts. Determine risk prioritization and mitigation strategies. Implement methods to track, control, and communicate risks throughout the IT project life cycle.
Reduce IT project time and costs. Gain the necessary information to develop a proactive environment for requirements management. Identify, document, analyze, track, control, and manage changes in requirements throughout a project’s life cycle. Determine key roles and responsibilities in requirements analysis and management. Discover the importance of allocating and tracing requirements, validation, and verification. Develop tools and techniques to use throughout the requirements process, methods to conduct an inspection, and ways to reduce risks.
This 3-day, in-depth course, focuses on approaches to estimating costs and schedules for information systems and technology projects. Understand the various project areas that must be estimated, and the tools and methodologies best suited for the estimates you will prepare. Recognize the importance of effective estimating throughout the project management life cycle.
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