This is a full program in 4-phases concentrated program that is equivalent a conventional 36 hours college course to introduce the basics of project management: also, the first session is designed as a stand-alone introduction seminar to introduce the nature of project management as a career for people with extensive work experience shown above as PMAP-BP1. This short course can be adapted to (an) in-depth tutorial workshop(s) on project management for senior managers and executives that want a better handle on the project management process and get some hands-on experience in the process. This full course is intended for people that are seriously contemplating a project management career and want to see (at a high level) the complete program from beginning to end.
The impetus for this course was as an overview for people engaged in physical labour, which gets more demanding as they age, to give them some insight into opportunities to develop into a supervisory position. This is based on some early coaching work for someone in a construction trade who, due to an accident, found it difficult to be re-integrated in his former occupation. It struck as a sensible opportunity for people to learn new skills but to also leverage the experience gained in the trade. We expanded the scope of this orientation course to include people at all levels in an organization who have heard about a project paradigm, but who have not had the opportunity to learn much more about what it can do for them.
The major focus for this course is to actually get into the art of project management itself, to learn how to run basic projects. Although at a relatively high level (as an introduction) we do include hands-on experience with running a project.
This program can be used to teach project management basics to any participants in a project so they have a better understanding of how we use project management methodology to maintain an orderly execution of work activity. This course can be used as a simple introductory course to help people learn about project management careers, which is ideal for people who matured in a trade or technical role and may want to transition into this career opportunity of project management, but need a good understanding of what it is and what challenges they have to learn to deal with.
Many colleges (and even universities) offer project management, but the cost of tuition notwithstanding they cannot provide a fast-track into a project management career. If you review the “Foundation of Project Management” information you will see that to get the PMP™ designation you must meet many criteria set by PMI™ (Project Management Institute) regardless of where you take your training. This course is intended only to give you a realistic insight into what project management is about, so that you can make an informed decision about making this a career goal.
The most important part of any project is the planning and scheduling aspect of a project: if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. There are several key elements to this preparation before a project can be launched. We will take a closer look at, and explain the use of, these key elements:
This continues our course to expand on the execution and reporting aspects of the same project introduced in the previous session, to explain the use of project management tools for:
This continues our program to expand and simulate the experience of recording and tracking of progress updates and to react to events that impact on our project. We designed this as a “game” that randomizes the events that occur that affect the options and decisions that are available to the project manager – opportunities for participants to think of the theory and how to apply that to the situation at hand. The final part of this workshop is dedicated to discussing a potential career in project management and related occupations.
All participants will receive an Excel™-VBA workbook based software product that will enable them to perform the project simulation on their own computer, as well as to use the tools on future small projects that they may be asked to manage. The nature of the project we selected is not technical so that most people should be able to perform the exercise. For this course we will share a single project (participants can duplicate the action on their computer if they wish) so we can step through a case within a much shorter time than would be required for individual projects.
This course is currently available in a classroom setting (public or company private) with approximately 15 contact hours (5 days of 3 hours each.
Each course offers a certificate of completion that identifies the course, the student, and a brief description of the course. To receive a certificate the student must have attended at least 80% of the course sessions. This personalized certificate is forwarded to the student by Email.
Each course includes a notebook in PDF format that provides the minimum knowledge the student must master in order to obtain the certificate. In the notebook you will find references to other study materials. Students receive the notebook by Email when their registration is confirmed.
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