Overview
PM PLAYBOOK® provides a common base of knowledge, skills, and tools essential for both novice and experienced Project Managers. The PM courses are designed for organizations that want to gain a competitive edge by creating a unified approach to the projects they undertake. Project Management is a powerful business tool that you can use throughout your organization to boost personal and collaborative productivity, and ultimately show triple-digit return on investment. Let the power of Project Management grow your business.
Program Details
Course Costs for up to Ten Participants –
- Mandatory Baseline Assessments and Three One-Day Courses – $40,000 USD
- Optional Courses – $11,500 USD each course
- For corporations with over 50 students requiring training, we offer group pricing.
Duration – One year
Course Location – Onsite or at one of our training facilities
Access – Instructions provided when you register
Start Date – Available Now – Click here to download the proposal
Course Material – All material is provided.
Overview
Our Learning Objectives are for you to:
- Identify inherent PM strengths and challenges through a self-assessment.
- Uncover areas where you can use your strengths and build a road map to make better use of these strengths and those of other team members.
- Perform a PM Performance baseline using PAT’s PM Scorecard™.
- Identify skill level and PM competencies needed to be an effective PM.
- Develop a Project Management Playbook example for improved PM performance.
- Learn the terminology of the PMBOK® Guide and how it translates into your organization’s project work.
- Create a project flow unique to your organization and match it to the PMBOK® Guide’s five phases; initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing.
- Identify innate negotiating strengths and challenges through a negotiating styles self-assessment.
- Improve day-to-day effectiveness in a variety of negotiation situations encountered as a Project Manager.
- Facilitate project meetings that creates a team atmosphere where all are participating and providing constructive feedback.
- Learn techniques for bringing a team quickly to consensus.
- Understand how risk plays a part in your project planning.
- PM courses use real work experience, create a risk management plan for actual projects and (depending on where they are in the project life cycle) identify, assess, mitigate, and create a risk response plan.
- Create a scope for the work the team is responsible for delivering.
- Verify project work against the project scope and project requirements during the project control and project closeout.
- Identify, evaluate, and manage change.
- Review change control procedures to increase effectiveness, control scope creep, and bring projects to closure on time.
- Create a work breakdown structure (WBS), develop activity definition, activity estimating, network diagram, and a realistic schedule.
- Understand the various project communication methods and when to use each one.
- Identify project stakeholders and create a communication responsibility matrix that is easy to follow and provides information fast.
- Know how to close a project to the satisfaction of your customer and stakeholders.
- Build historical records of lessons learned and templates to be used for future projects.
- Create a quality management plan for projects large and small.
- Determine how your organization’s quality policies will affect project plans and how to inspect work during project execution to ensure that work is completed to specification.
- Create cost baselines.
- Complete an earned value analysis against time and cost baselines and learn how to bring projects back on schedule.
- Understand roles in procuring project resources outside of your organization.
- Learn important phrases to look for in contracts so that you are not in violation of contracts and clauses.
- Identify Project Management best practices that exist in your organization.
- Implement Project Management playbook example, methodology, tools, and techniques to use to run projects.
- Improve PM Performance.