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Project Management
Project Management is one of the world’s most in-demand skill sets and is one of the fastest growing professional disciplines in North America. Project Management is used by large corporations, governments, and smaller organizations to standardize and reduce the tasks necessary to complete a project in the most effective and efficient manner.
Participants who master project management learn to lead improvement initiatives that result in measurable growth in return on investment, economic value added, sales growth, customer satisfaction and retention, market share, time to market, employee satisfaction, and employee motivation. By participating, you will gain skills that you can use immediately in your current job and that will lead to career advancement in the future.
Project Management Outline
1. Develop project objectives, define the scope and develop the project requirements with the stakeholders.
2. Unearth the information necessary for clear requirements from the stakeholders. Then you build a network of achievements & sub-achievements.
3. Define the project charter, including authority & accountability structures, resource requirements, risks & assumptions and change control.
4. Build a work breakdown structure from your approved project plan. Define the summary tasks, sub-tasks and individual assignments for each team member.
5. Assign individuals to tasks in the work breakdown structure, and develop duration estimates with your team members and the contractors, gaining commitment to their accountabilities and schedules.
6. Use critical path and PERT to analyze the network of tasks and develop options for shortening the project duration.
7. Assess a conflict situation on your project team then act to resolve it and avoid potential problems.
8. Using status data from project team members, update the project plan to reflect changes and use project management software to identify problems.
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