Essentials of Program Management is a two day, instructor-facilitated, learning course where participants not only learn about what sets program management apart from project management, they also will apply the lessons through hands-on team exercises. Topics covered in this session will be delivered through the five phases of program management: pre-program setup, program setup, establishing a program management and technical infrastructure, delivering incremental program benefits, and closing the program.
This course will benefit practitioners who manage large-scale projects and programs through illustrating advanced tools and techniques applicable to the program management discipline. Closely aligned with PMI’s Standard for Program Management, participants will have the opportunity to apply lessons learned through relevant program management case studies.
A project’s success is often measured by the team’s ability to deliver a defined set of outcomes on time, on budget, and on specification. More importantly, however, is the team’s ability to successfully manage the expectations of the groups and individuals who have a vested interest in the outcome of the project. In simpler terms, this means that the project team must effectively align the project delivery with expectations of key stakeholders.
Effective Project Estimating and Control is a one-day training session designed to provide project team members and participants with better ways to successfully define, deliver, and control the schedule and cost factors of a project with more precision.
Power up your presentations!
Learn and apply time-proven communication and design principles that will help you create clear, effective, and powerful presentations.
In this class students will create and modify a project plan using MS Project.
Microsoft Office Project acts as a tool that assists you in managing your projects. Students will gather information about the various tasks involved, resources required to accomplish the tasks, and the overall cost in order to plan a project.
This course will cover basic information on topics including:
Reporting Project Information
Analyzing Project Information
Managing Master Projects and Resource Pools
Customizing the MS Project interface
Customizing your View of Project Information
Automating your work with Macros
Managing Project Files
Create your own customized spreadsheet solutions using VBA.
In this three day course, you will learn the essential elements and concepts for programming with Excel, including using VBA to customize your applications and automate functions.
Participants will improve and customize tables, queries, forms and reports, and share Access data with other applications
This course is designed for individuals who wish to learn intermediate-level operations of the Microsoft Office Access program. The target student may also include individuals whose job responsibilities include creating databases, tables, query a database, design forms and generate reports.
The course structure effectively combines lecture and discussion with hands-on application of useful project reporting, monitoring, and controlling techniques for project scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
Earned Value Management is a four-day, instructor-led, training class designed to introduce participants to the essentials and advanced tools of the Earned Value Analysis technique.
The course structure effectively combines lecture and discussion with hands-on application of useful project reporting, monitoring, and controlling techniques for project scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
Course length can be adjusted to suit your needs.
Various types of documentation are discussed including technical reports, training material for computer systems, maintenance and reference documentation and documentation to accompany presentations.
This course presents the basic principles of excellent documentation for use in an IT environment based on matching each type of documentation to its intended audience. Various types of documentation are discussed including technical reports, training material for computer systems, maintenance and reference documentation and documentation to accompany presentations. Alternate delivery methods are also discussed including on-line and web-based documentation.
Students will learn how to communicate effectively with all behavior types, how to handle conflict and deal with difficult people, effective methods for asking the right kinds of questions to elicit information, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and how to properly manage expectations using a 3 step approach.
In today’s ever changing business environment, where customers and developers may be across the hall or halfway around the world, the role of the Business Analyst has become critical to the success of the organization. The BA today must be a jack of many trades. There are a multitude of courses that can teach you how to use a particular methodology or tool to assist in creating requirements documents. This course focuses on the practical skills needed by today’s Business Analyst to be able to effectively interact with their business stakeholders to produce excellent business solutions.
Students will learn how to communicate effectively with all behavior types, how to handle conflict and deal with difficult people, effective methods for asking the right kinds of questions to elicit information, critical thinking and problem solving skills, and how to properly manage expectations using a 3 step approach.
Many practical exercises will help students practice the concepts presented. This course teaches the key traits and skills of a highly effective Business Analyst in their quest for producing on-target business solutions.
The end goal of this session is to provide the project or team leader with better insight into structuring a business that helps increase the organization’s ability to deliver on relevant and realistic project commitments.
Business Case Development is a two-day session designed to help project management practitioners gain a clearer understanding of what a business case is, what it should contain, and how it should be structured. The end goal of this session is to provide the project or team leader with better insight into structuring a business that helps increase the organization’s ability to deliver on relevant and realistic project commitments.
This workshop is designed to help any project management practitioner or team member to: gain a clearer understanding of a project business case; identify the primary elements of an effective business case; better structure a project business case for approval
