Applied Project Management (PM)
Description
Successful projects don’t happen by chance, they happen by design. This full-day, hands-on workshop provides participants with the essential tools, techniques, and strategies to plan, manage, and deliver projects with confidence and precision.
Whether you’re leading your first project or refining your project management skills, this session will walk you through the core phases of the project lifecycle and introduce 5 actionable tools you can implement immediately in your workplace. With a structured approach, you’ll leave prepared to manage projects of any size with clarity and control.
Training Information
Course Outline
- Introduction
- About Projects and Project Management
- Role of the Project Manager
- The Four Constraints (Performance, Cost, Time and Scope)
- The Project Life Cycles
- Exercising Leadership and Team Building
- Dynamics of Leadership
- Communications
- Effective Meetings
- Managing Conflict
- Trend Management
- Concept phase of Project Management
- Voice of the Customer
- Who is the Customer?
- Tangible vs. Intangible Wants
- House of Quality
- Needs Identification and Project Definition
- Problem Statement
- Project Requirements Document
- Statement of Work
- Project Planning (Strategy and Implementation)
- Introduction
- Decision Making
- Team Effectiveness
- Risk Management
- Financial Analysis (Capital budgeting, Financial Cash Flow, Risk and Return)
- PM Tools: Work Breakdown Structure, Network Diagram, Critical Path Method, PERT chart, Gantt chart.
- Maintaining Control During Execution
- Schedule and Budget Variance Techniques
- Project Reviews
- Project Hand off
- Bringing Project to Successful Closure
- Close-out phase
- Management Challenges at the end of projects
- Elements of Closure
Hector Ramirez worked for 33 years in the Supply Chain and Manufacturing areas for the steel, earth moving and automotive industries. An Industrial Engineer with a Masters Degree on International Management, he held several positions within the organizations he's participated, including: Purchasing Manager, Supply Chain Department Head, Manufacturing Manager, Operations Facility Manager. Through his career Mr. Ramirez worked in several different countries, and besides his operating experience has participated or led multinational teams on green field plant construction projects, global product sourcing projects and IT systems re-engineering or implementation projects. His latest responsibility was the rehauling and start-up of a 500 employees automotive Tier 2 stamping facility.
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