PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2.0 

A two day detailed program for experienced Project Managers or graduates of the Professional Development Collaborative’s one day “Project Management Essentials” course.

14 PDU (1.4 CEU) instructor-led program

Two day workshop.

WHEN:
                Friday, April 8, 2016, 9:00am - 4:00pm
                        and
                Friday, April 22, 2016, 9:00am - 4:00pm

WHERE:
                     Career Source Career Center
                     186 Alewife Brook Parkway
                     Cambridge, MA 02138
                     3rd Floor
in the Fresh Pond Shopping Ctr., near the Alewife T Station.

 Free parking available.

Cost: $199.00 ($177.00 plus $22.00 materials cost)
Early Bird Special:  Register by midnight, March 25, 2016 and the cost is only $185.00. Hurry, limited seating!  

Project Management 2.0 offers an opportunity to upgrade your PM skills to state of the art. It builds on The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge 5^th Edition and the latest organizational “best practices” to create a powerful project plan that will stand the test of time. This program blends sophisticated scheduling with robust budgeting, then adds the best in product quality and risk management.

You’ll develop the skills needed to build a sturdy plan and to manage the project using that plan. Each participant will learn how to balance the triple constraints of scope, cost, and schedule with the other project imperatives of quality, risk, stakeholder satisfaction, and organizational benefit. The program features several workshops where participants use their own real projects to develop a scope statement, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), network logic diagram, and resource assignments. Through the interactive game of Herding Cats^®, everyone will manage a project, revise a plan based on milestone achievements, assess risk, and re-plan to accommodate changes that occur. 

Topics include: Progress measurement techniques, such as “buffer” management and “earned value;” status reporting; and how to manage a team of creative individual contributors.

Outcomes: Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Write a one-page scope statement
• Construct a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)                            
• Develop accurate estimates
• Quantify cost and schedule risk
• Sequence activities
• Calculate the critical path
• Build a stronger project team
• Schedule activities and resources
• Measure performance objectively

Who Benefits from Project Management 2.0?

• Project managers who must plan and execute projects
• Project leaders who want to inspire their project teams
• Team leaders who manage project teams
• Project team members who need to know the elements of project management
• Executives of project management firms with a need for better processes
• Managers of project managers who want to know what project managers do
• Program managers who must coordinate several projects at the same time

• Participants receive a 300 + page PM book
  

AGENDA DAY 1                              

Brief Review of Essentials

• Project Mangement Context & Definitions
• One page Scope Statement
• Work Breakdown Structure (with exercise)
• Estimating Work
• Network Logic and Critical Path
• Managing Project Progress

Stakeholder management

• Project life cycle: should the project have one?
• Stakeholders: who are they, and why should you care?
• Stakeholder political analysis
• How do you make scope, cost, schedule, and quality trade-offs?
• Project business contexts

Scope development

• WBS examples and alternatives
• How do you plan for project management?

Estimating

• Project estimates vs. activity estimates
• Bottom-up, analogous, and parametric estimates
• Adding up estimates

Influence without authority

• How do you deal with conflict?
• An innovative team exercise with Legos
• Why is role assignment so important?

Scheduling issues

• Duration estimating: time vs. resource driven
• Activity sequencing: what must you watch for?
• Determining scheduling flexibility
• Merge bias: why is the CPM schedule too optimistic?
• The realities of working overtime
• How do you calculate the critical path using the Critical Path Method (CPM)

AGENDA DAY 2

Risk management

• How do you figure out a risk’s likelihood, outcome, and time frame?
• On-going risk management
• Risk Workshop

Project execution

• What is the best way to measure performance objectively?
• How do you predict the cost at completion?
• How do you predict the schedule at completion?
• What are the two important uses of a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)?
• How should you conduct project performance review meetings?
• Managing scope changes
• What must you do to close a project?
• How do you best document the important lessons learned?
• Herding Cats^®: the Game of Projects

Presenter:  Jack Nevison

Jack Nevison is founder and President of New Leaf Project Management. He is the author of six books and is a contributor to the original 1996 edition of The PMBOK® Guide and was a team leader for the Fifth Edition revision. He has designed several interactive games (Herding Cats©, Stays & Days©, and QPM©) to enhance the mastery of PM skills, speaks and writes regularly on topics of interest to project managers and is a past president of the Mass Bay Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). Nevison is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College. He may be reached at jmn@newleafpm.com

The Professional Development Collaborative, Inc. is a non-profit education and training center for professionals in transition who are seeking to grow their skills and utilize their expertise in a professional setting.  Subject matter experts with in-demand skills provide affordable training, while businesses and organizations offer collaborative work opportunities and employment alliances.  The vision of the PDC is to create an organization that grows the skills of highly motivated professionals, and in turn, is an aid to the New England economy. We welcome your help as volunteers, trainers, or employed professionals open to mentoring other professionals.

Register online and reserve your seat Now.  Workshop size is limited to 24.  Registration ends 9:00am April 8, 2016 or when workshop is full.  If paying by check, your check must be received by April 1, 2016.  We are not responsible for lost, delayed, or misdirected mail.  Major credit cards accepted via PayPal. You do NOT need a PayPal account or registration to use PayPal.

 Refunds are subject to a $10 cancellation fee.

Refunds are provided to workshop participants when they notify the Professional Development Collaborative 24 hours in advance of the workshop. Credit card charges and handling are subtracted from the amount refunded. A credit may also be applied to a future workshop in lieu of a refund. All refund requests should be sent by email to: larry.elle@pdcboston.org.

Refund requests that arrive after the workshop begins are not accepted and no refund will be provided.

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