Essentials of Project Management 5-Day Certificate Program

Good project management is part of good business management. Today’s challenging business environment (tight budgets, fierce competition, demanding customers, tight labor market) is making project management more complex than ever for business executives and line managers as well as professional project and program managers.

The truth is there is much more to successful project management than using GANTT and PERT charts. You need effective techniques to:

• Align with Strategic Objectives
  The first step to achieving meaningful business results
• Organize and Plan
  “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
• Manage Tasks and People
  Gain buy-in and make the most of your project team’s capabilities
• Control Risks and Costs
• Stay within budget and avoid costly failures

To help you achieve these goals, Orion Development Group has created the Project Management Critical Skills Certificate Program.

This comprehensive, five-day seminar delivers a critical subset of skills from the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK. It focuses on the day-to-day tools and techniques you need to manage projects that deliver good business results on time and on budget, regardless of project size or nature.

You will learn how to:

• Select high impact projects and abandon low-return projects
• Apply tools to thoroughly plan a project
• Identify and track quality and project metrics
• Establish yourself as a leader of high-performing project teams
• Create a cost management plan
• Analyze risks qualitatively and quantitatively
• …and much more.

Open enrollment class participants will receive a free copy of the Fast Forward MBA in Project Management.

Essentials of Project Management Certificate Program – Five-Day Outline

DAY 1

• Projects and Business Strategy
  • What Drives Success?
  • The PMO
• Project Initiation
  • Selection and strategic alignment
  • Statement of Work (SOW)

DAY 2

• Project Planning
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Tools for work and resource evaluation
• Managing and Controlling Projects
  • Change management
  • Monitor and Control
• Closing Projects
  • Validating completion
  • Leveraging efforts and results

DAY 3

• Communication Planning
  • Building the Communications Plan
• Behavioral Styles
  • Behavior Styles Profile Workshop
  • Generational differences and project management
• HR Management
  • Project organization structure
  • Staff and skills management plans

DAY 4

• Developing the Project Team
  • Development phases
  • Conflict management
  • Managing the Virtual Team
• Risk Management
  • Identification and analysis
  • Response planning and project audits

DAY 5

• Project Cost Management
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Budgeting and control
  • Earned Value Analysis
• Putting It All Together
  • Measuring success
  • Simulation and application