Course Descriptions
Rescue My Project™
Course Code: | RMP502 |
Duration: | 1 - 2 Day |
Overview: | This course can be offered in a 1 or 2 day workshop format. This interactive, instructor led course is designed to give project managers a solid overview of the methodology necessary to effectively assess and either recover or terminate a troubled project. Through instruction, discussions of real experiences and hands on exercises, project managers will gain insight into why projects fail and recognizing symptoms of troubled projects. Participants will learn how to effectively and efficiently plan and execute the entire project rescue process, including assessment, project decision, and recovery or termination. The one day course is designed to provide a solid overview of the project rescue methodology, and an introduction to the tools and templates that are available to make project recovery efforts more streamlined. Additional course content and the complete suite of tools and templates that are normally provided with the 3 day course will be available to participants for purchase upon completion of the one day course. |
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Strategic Planning and Project Lifecycle Management
Course Code: | PTG001 |
Duration: | 3 Days |
Overview: | This course will introduce several JAD (Joint Application Design) session agendas that can be used to drastically streamline strategic IT planning and project management activities. Focus is on adequate prioritization of IT projects aligned with business strategies, as well as the successful implementation of these projects. Day 1 of the course reviews facilitation processes and explores business processes and strategy. Day 2 of the course encompasses project scope definition and requirements definition. Day 3 of the course covers project management plans, system testing, and user acceptance. |
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In Search of Excellent Requirements – Gathering, Documenting, and Managing Requirements
Course Code: | PTG002 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | This seminar emphasizes the practical techniques of Software Requirements Engineering. These techniques can reduce project risk by improving the quality of the software requirements, thereby increasing the likelihood of a successful project that meets stakeholder expectations. Small group discussions encourage participants to identify requirements problems they face on their projects and to analyze the impacts, root causes, and possible solutions. Based on Karl Wiegers's book, Software Requirements, 2nd Edition, this seminar covers the entire requirements engineering process and describes dozens of tested methods that can help any organization improve the way it gathers, documents, and manages software requirements. Day 1 of the seminar introduces participants to the levels, characteristics, development, documentation, and prioritization of Software Requirements. Day 2 of the seminar coaches participants in the processes of modeling and prototyping to verify requirements. The Capability Maturity Model is discussed, and the seminar concludes with requirements management and change analysis and management. |
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An Introduction to Facilitation
Course Code: | PTG003 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | Facilitation is a technique designed to dramatically increase productivity in meetings and extract high-quality information within a compressed timeframe. Using a structured facilitated meeting approach allows individuals and teams to develop clear deliverables and consensus-based decisions. Participants will gain an understanding of facilitation methods and techniques. They will demonstrate and reinforce their knowledge and newly acquired skills by completing an exercise in facilitation on a specific case study. This course is a pre-requisite for the Advanced JAD Facilitation class. Day 1 of the course introduces participants to basic facilitation skills and explores the issues and personalities of individuals and teams that affect meeting facilitation. Day 2 of the course covers the skills and methods of facilitation in more depth and examines meeting logistics and facilitation tools. |
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Managing an Enterprise PMO
Course Code: | PTG004 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | Project Management Offices have become increasingly popular in the past few years, as companies are more than ever striving to optimize the execution of internal processes and projects and drive out unnecessary cost wherever possible. Establishing a PMO is viewed by many organizations as a critical success factor for the alignment of projects with business strategies, for effective project management, and for project portfolio reporting to key stakeholders. It is becoming very difficult to gain the required cost efficiencies without a Project Management Office in place, especially as companies make the shift to project-driven organizational models. Day 1 of the course introduces participants to the purpose and benefits of a PMO, guides students through the process of evaluating organizational maturity, discusses how to select a PMO model, and covers the development of a PMO implementation plan and budget. Day 2 of the course discusses management of the PMO, covers the training needs and operational issues relevant to successful PMO implementation, and examines the cultural changes necessitated by PMO implementation |
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A Project Management Framework: Organizing, Planning and Controlling Projects
Course Code: | PTG005 |
Duration: | 3 Days |
Overview: | A Project Management Framework examines project management in theory and practice and the roles and responsibilities of the project manager. It offers a practical approach to managing projects, focusing on organizing, planning, and controlling the work of the project. The course is based on the best and most current thinking in the field, particularly the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) approach described in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Case studies, active participation in team workshops, and practical information reinforce learning. At the end of the course, participants will know why project management requires a high degree of professionalism, and how to develop that skill in their future projects. Day 1 of the course defines the technical and subsidiary plans for a project and includes workshops to develop the technical plan. The Work Breakdown Structure is shown to be the deliverable that guides and defines the work to be performed to complete the project objective. Day 2 of the course concludes the technical planning processes with Scope, Time, Cost, and Quality and defines the subsidiary plans of Human Resource, Communications, Risk, and Procurement. Workshops for each of the nine knowledge areas give participants hands-on experience in the planning processes. Day 3 of the course concludes the planning processes and guides the participants through Execution, Monitoring & Control, and Closing. An exception workshop gives participants practice in responding to change in the project. |
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Preparing for the PMP or CAPM Certification Exam
Course Code: | PTG006 |
Duration: | 4 Days |
Overview: | Major corporations are adopting A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 4th Edition, from the Project Management Institute (PMI), and the related Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification, as the primary sources of competency in the field of Project Management. Market research indicates that employers want project management practitioners who have real experience leading and directing projects. To better meet this need, PMI has incorporated in the certification application process the requirement to document experience in leading and directing the various tasks required in effective project management. In addition, PMI places increased emphasis on situational questions in the testing process to better evaluate applicant skill in actually using their PMBOK® Guide knowledge. This emphasis has made the test more comprehensive and difficult than it was in the past, and increases the value of preparation course work prior to taking the test. This course, along with the participants’ review of the materials and repeated practice testing, will more than adequately prepare them to take the PMP® or CAPM® Certification Exam. Day 1 of the course provides a detailed review of the Project Management framework and context. Many of the Day One topics are only mentioned in the PMBOK® Guide and knowledge of those topics is critical to passing the PMP® exam. Day 2 of the course defines the Project Management life cycle, the Project Management processes, definitions of the nine Knowledge Areas, and Project Integration Management. Day 3 of the course defines the core Knowledge Areas of Project Management: Scope, Time, Cost, and Quality Management. Day 4 of the course defines the subsidiary Knowledge Areas of Project Management: Human Resource, Communications, Risk, and Procurement Management and the subject of professional responsibilities and ethics. |
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Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2007
Course Code: | PTG007 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | This two day course trains the student to use Microsoft Project 2007 in managing projects in alignment with the PMI PMBOK® Guide standards. Day 1 of the course introduces the operations required to create a Microsoft Project plan file, determine scope and enter a work breakdown structure (WBS), identify project tasks and estimate task durations, assign and level resources, determine costs, and achieve an optimum schedule. Day 2 of the course introduces more advanced topics in MS Project, including importing and exporting data from or to other MS applications, tracking progress during the project, managing project costs during execution, and reporting project information in graphic formats. Additional topics include setting up templates to permit re-use of a good project plan, the use of customized views and tables, sharing resources between projects, and creating a master project to view multiple projects as a whole. |
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Writing High Quality Requirements
Course Code: | PTG008 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | This seminar helps anyone performing the requirements analyst role on software or systems development projects become more proficient at specifying high quality requirements. Participants learn how to examine requirements critically for problems and how to write clear, unambiguous requirements of various types. Topics covered include distinguishing and documenting requirements with a focus on precision, quality, and stakeholder involvement. During practice sessions, participants apply their learning to realistic scenarios and work together to evaluate and provide feedback to each other. This is not a complete course on requirements engineering. After the introductory material on requirements in general, the course emphasizes the actual writing of different types of requirements Day 1 of the seminar sets a common view of software requirements, provides techniques for Reviewing Requirements, tools for visualizing Scope and the requisite Elements of Requirements Style. Exercises reinforce understanding of these topics. Day 2 of the seminar “drills down” to the use of multiple requirements views to share the vision with all stakeholders. Methods for requirements evaluation and review, writing techniques, and version control are described and practiced. The seminar concludes with detailed examples of, and drills in, Use Cases. |
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Setting Smart Objectives
Course Code: | SSO501 |
Duration: | 1 Day |
Overview: | Look at your organization: decisions are made or sometimes avoided, projects are initiated, sometimes terminated, people are promoted, sometimes… Organizational life is an unending sequence of decisions and actions. What motivates it all? We spend countless hours pondering strategies, devising plans of action, structuring projects and managing them but we rarely spend the necessary time reflecting about the validity of the objectives which underpin them. Setting smart objectives should be the first priority of an organization. This 1 day course defines the objective setting process and provides answers to the following questions:
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Rescue My Team™
Course Code: | RMT501 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | Our interactive, instructor led course is designed to give project team members insight into why teams are important, the impacts of dysfunctional teams and the symptoms, causes and categories of team troubles. This course will enable participants to identify the human factors that are an inevitable influence on projects. Participants will be taken through the Rescue My Team™ framework and provided with the understanding, tools and techniques to ensure a solid foundation is built for the team in which there exists healthy conflict, trust, accountability, responsibility, growth and commitment. |
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Intelligent Decision Making
Course Code: | IDM501 |
Duration: | 2 Days |
Overview: | Intelligent Decision-Making provides the insights and tools required by today’s executive facing a critical decision in a business or government environment. This 1-hour webinar describes the analytical process leading to an “intelligent choice”, including assessing the situation, stakeholders, risks, one’s self as a decision-maker, selling the decision, and the possible outcomes and required follow-up. Current logic has us believe that careful analysis leads to corporate objectives, followed by decisions and ultimately actions, but does that have anything to do with reality? Anyone who has spent some time in an organization knows that the order is often reversed: the analysis is biased to support pre-set objectives which justify a hastily made decision. If the outcome is satisfying, we call it a good decision. Or is it just luck? Any attempt to teach you how to make “good decisions” is a fraud. “Good” refers to the outcome, which always entails some unpredictability. Then, there is the question of “good for whom?” The decision-maker or one of the stakeholders at the expense of others? In this seminar you will acquire tools and techniques to improve your decision-making process such that you take into account more facets of the decision-making situation, set clear objectives, and make an intelligent choice between all possible alternatives. |
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Rescue My Project™ & Entrepreneurial Leadership
Course Code: | RMP301 |
Duration: | 3 Days |
Overview: | Participate in a new and unique program for Project Managers! You and other Project Managers will learn how to Rescue Troubled Projects and how to be an effective entrepreneurial leader! Delivered in person by Brian Munroe and Chris Castillo, you will learn from two experts on how to best save projects and how to be an effective leader. You will be more knowledgeable about rescuing projects, you will be more confident as a world-class leader. |
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Private Corporate or Government Training
Course Code: | MTI101 - Private/Custom |
Duration: | Custom |
Overview: | We can bring our training to you at great discounts! We can custom tailor courses to suit your particular interests, create a unique case study based on your particular experiences, adapt material to address specific training needs, or custom develop courseware exactly for you. |
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