Advanced Project Management

Training  Overview

The Advanced Project Management equips managers with principles and the know-how of completing projects on time, within budget and while meeting expectations. The training offer a practical, step-by-step approach to managing a project over its entire life cycle – from inception to close out

This training also gives 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

Who Should Attend

This training is specially designed for:

Software developers moving into a team leader or project management role. Software project managers who want to move from traditional approaches to agile processes. Software project managers preparing a PMP certification. Experienced project managers with little or no experience in software development.

Prerequisites: Some practical experience of software development projects

Training Objectives

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Identify key stakeholders, assess project feasibility, and solicit authorisation.
• Communicate weekly tasks that are scheduled for completion with a focus on critical tasks.
• Update plan components, manage team and stakeholder expectations, and communicate progress and status consistently and predictably.
• Manage cost, scope, time, risk, quality, and project change according to a set of processes.
• Use project metrics and process documentation to learn how to manage projects better.
• Analyze projects and the project management process continually.

AGENDA AND MATERIAL

DAY 1

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.

2.Project Execution Methodology

•  Starting project work.
•  Getting work done.
•  Capturing progress and status.
•  Forecasting future work.

DAY 2

3.Project Variance and Control

•  Performance metrics.
•  Understanding what causes variance.
•  Taking corrective action to overcome variance.
•  Managing change, quality, and risk.

4.Project Closure and Learning

•  The challenge of project closure.
•  When and how to learn from projects.
•  Project closure reporting and archiving process.

Trainer : Spectracentre Trainer Team