Project Planning, Scheduling and Control

Introduction to Project Management

• What is a project?
• What is project management?
• How do you define success?
• The project management system
• Project management and ISO 9000
• Project management and Six Sigma
• The Lewis method of managing projects

The Project Management Institute and the PMBOK

• Process versus knowledge areas
• The five project processes
• Knowledge areas

The Role of Project Manager

• Its all about people!
• Do you really want to manage?
• Making your career decision

How to Achieve High-Performance Project Management

• The High-Performance Project Management Model
• The need for a new approach
• Stages of development

Whole Brain Project Management

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• Thinking styles
• Working motivation and the HBDI profile
• Team dynamics
• The balanced scorecard
• Creativity and profiles

Headless-Chicken Projects and Hot to Prevent Them

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• The cold, hard facts
• The causes
• Mission and vision
• Problems, problems
• Defining closed-ended problems
• Defining opened-ended problems
• The fallacy of project management assumptions

Developing Project Strategy

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• What is strategy?
• Generating and choosing the correct strategy
• Putting it all together

Implementation Planning

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• Mistakes in planning
• Development the work breakdown structure
• Estimating time, cost, and resource requirements
• Clarifying role and responsibilities
• Gaining commitment from resource providers
• Developing the project budget

Project Scheduling

• The basics of scheduling
• Software capabilities
• Resource allocation

Managing Project Communications

• Communication management processes

Managing Risks

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• The risk management process
• Risk quantification

Project Control

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• Measuring progress
• The pitfalls of reporting schedule only
• Tracking progress using earned value analysis
• Responding to deviations
• Using graphs to track progress and forecast trends
• Using spreadsheets to track progress
• Alternatives to earned value
• Project change control

Conducting Product Reviews

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• Reviews
• Displaying progress
• Process reviews
• Conducting process or lessons-learned reviews
• The process review report
• Design reviews

Improving Project Processes

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• Identifying processes
• Principles of process improvement
• Operational definitions of problems

Managing and Facilitating Meetings

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• Meeting management guidelines
• Marathon meetings
• Important roles in meetings
• Some guidelines for project meetings
• More pointers for status meetings

Closing Out the Project

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• Administrative closure
• The final lessons-learned review
• Personnel issues in project closing

Managing Multiple Projects

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• Project, task, priority?
• Personal effectiveness

Improving Your Effectiveness

• The psychology of achievement
• The laws that govern out lives
• Self-concept
• Programming your mind for success
• Behave as-if
• Mental rehearsal
• Affirmation and goals
• Relax
• Autogenic conditioning
• A word of caution

Working with Senior Managers

• Helping your manager meet his needs
• Educating managers about project management
• Applying the HBDI profile to working with senior managers
• Making presentations to executives
• Understanding your manager’s point of view
• Find a mentor
• Final suggestion

Dealing More Effectively with People

• Working with your project team
• Motivation
• Negotiating and influencing
• Dealing with politics
• Skill building

Trends in Project Management

• Virtual project teams
• Technology: for better or worse