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Project Managment: Courses

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Project Team Management
A project team's ability to achieve its strategic objectives depends on its understanding and skillful use of project management processes and tools. This proven, application-oriented program provides project managers and project team members the necessary tools and skills to manage organizational projects successfully. It encompasses step-by-step guidelines to facilitate success throughout the project. Exercises are used throughout the program to provide practice, insight, feedback, and active learning opportunities for each participant.
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Project Management for R&D
This program addresses the skills of successful project management as they apply to research and early development projects. Research projects typically carry high levels of uncertainty, which require adaptive and contingency planning. Starting with effective goal setting clearly linked to the business strategy, this program goes on to develop the concepts and tools for managing a successful R&D project from start to finish. It addresses defining the project, assessing risk, planning strategies for dealing with risk and uncertainty, subgoals and milestones, resource commitment, project evaluation, and when and how to end a project.
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Foundations™ - The Complete Project Management Simulation
Standard project management courses can leave participants overwhelmed with a myriad of new techniques and with little understanding of how they all fit together. This one-day program provides the integration often missing after project management training. Participants assume the roles of project team members and take a project through its life cycle. The program provides an excellent overview and reinforcement of project management skills, tools, and techniques, helping to put them all into perspective. Basic knowledge of project management tools and techniques is assumed.
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Designing and Leading Small Technical Projects
This two-day program presents basic elements of project management with emphasis on smaller research projects that typically carry high levels of uncertainty. Participants learn why planning and leadership must be more flexible in research and they identify project opportunities and develop skills in adaptive planning and managing a project. This workshop is designed for those with responsibility for initiating, leading or participating in projects in scientific research and discovery, method development, technical services, or related areas.
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Proactive Project Management
This two-day program is designed to help participants with the often-daunting task of developing and initiating organizational projects. Goals are to learn to identify project opportunities, interact successfully with business units, and use project goals as an aid in planning. Participants should have responsibility for initiating, leading or playing a key role in the early stages of project identification and development. This program teaches methods of planning and developing goals that are clearly linked to the business strategy. It addresses the skills necessary for following up on target goals and managing projects successfully via goal setting, and it addresses alternatives to traditional goal setting.
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Managing Goals for Project Success
Designed for technical specialists and managers, this program teaches methods of planning and developing goals that are clearly linked to the business strategy. It addresses the skills necessary for following up on target goals and managing projects successfully via goal setting. It also addresses alternatives to traditional goal setting.
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Advanced Topics In Project Management
This workshop provides an opportunity for experienced project managers to further develop in the areas of greatest challenge in project management: communication, schedule management, risk management and contingency planning, budgeting, and conflict management. These subjects are covered in five days. Shorter single-topic programs are also available.
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Project Management Basics
This program provides the foundation skills and tools for successful project management. Standard project management courses often leave participants overwhelmed with a myriad of new techniques and uncertainty about how they all fit together. In this program participants apply the information they learn in a hands-on simulation. In the simulation, they assume the roles of project team members and take a project through its life cycle. The project is structured, planned, tested, scheduled, budgeted, and carried out by the participants. Participants analyze whether the project met its goals and budget, how it was managed, and ways it could be improved.
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Leading Project Teams
Designed for those who currently lead or will soon lead project teams, this workshop addresses the skills needed to lead and motivate project teams: communication, team-based planning, problem solving and decision making, influence, and conflict management strategies.
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Project Risk Management
The ability to assess project risks and to consider contingency plans for key risks is an essential project management skill. This program was originally designed for software development groups in several industries and addresses best practices.
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Project Management for Consultants
Most of a consulting organization's work is accomplished through projects for their clients. Therefore project success is absolutely critical to the success of the organization. This hands-on course takes participants through the first parts of a project or engagement life cycle: understanding client requirements, developing a proposal, and project planning.
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Team-based Planning for Project Success
Numerous studies in the project management literature have cited project planning as the key to project success. By taking the time to plan, we can save 10-40% in time and budget. Planning forces us to think about the scope, risks, communications, budget, team member qualifications, and client requirements. If we involve in the planning those who will execute the work, we can achieve even greater savings in time and costs. This program emphasizes team-planning processes to gain commitment to schedule, budget, and communications.
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PMP Examination Preparation
The Project Management Institute (PMI), an international organization for promoting the profession of project management, grants the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation to individuals who demonstrate project management experience and who pass a certification examination. This program is designed to prepare experienced project managers to take and pass the PMP exam.
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