Online Training - Advanced Project Management

DESCRIPTION The Advanced Project Management workshop gives seasoned project managers the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully manage increasingly complex project issues to meet desired goals and objectives. Assuming a mastery of project planning, this workshop extends skills to the remaining project management processes covering areas such as avoiding mistakes when executing and controlling a project, dealing with evolving stakeholder expectations, using trend analysis to measure project performance and improving project outcomes OUTLINE 1. Project Selection and Initiation

• Initiating Projects
• When do Projects Start? Defining the Project Life Cycle
• Tips for Defining the Start of a Project
• Considerations for Initiating Projects
• Key Elements of the Initiating Process
• Guidelines for Project Initiation
• Starting Project Work
• Getting Work Done
• Capturing Progress and Status
• Forecasting Future Work
• Performance Metrics
• Understanding What Causes Variance
• Taking Corrective Action to Overcome Variance
• Managing Change, Quality, and Risk
• The Challenge of Project Closure
• When and How to Learn from Projects
• Project Closure Reporting and Archiving Process

2. Project Execution Methodology 3. Project Variance and Control 4. Project Closure and Learning