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Project Management Simulation
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- Length: 2 - 3 Days ( 15 - 22.5 PDU's )
Practice the principles of project management in a rigorous simulation
Successful project leaders integrate the science and art of project management. |
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Learn the proven techniques required to lead projects by experience in a rigorous simulation reflecting typical organization constraints. Teams encounter scope changes, communication breakdowns, unexpected stakeholder inputs and other realistic variables as they define, plan, execute, control and close out a project.
This challenging, hands-on course builds confidence as it builds skills to take a project from inception to a successful completion, while producing deliverables and meeting deadlines every step of the way.
Project Management experience is a prerequisite for this course. |
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- Experiential learning ties together all project management topics.
- Realistic variables in simulation prepare participants for problems on the job.
- Teams internalize the value of planning, risk management, and scope control.
- Learn to build realistic project plans that foster high performance.
- Recognize and avoid problems before they occur.
- Accurately assess progress and plan course corrections.
- Optimize cost, schedule, and quality in a competitive environment
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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Use planning techniques to manage budgets, monitor a project’s scope and keep on schedule.
- Assess and quantify risk, plus implement strategies that reduce risk without compromising the return.
- Determine the project scope and plan for requirements management.
- Involve sub-contractors and manage them effectively.
- Increase proficiency at estimating the business case with easy-to-use techniques.
- Improve communication with the customer.
- Perform project status reporting, including calculation of earned value.
- React to project changes with a flexible mindset that keeps the project moving forward.
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This course requires participants to be familiar with the fundamentals of project planning and control.
Professionals with prior project management training or experience will want to attend to see how all the pieces of the project management discipline fit together. New project teams may want to attend this program together to experience a full project lifecycle and transfer the lessons directly to their project. |
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- Bidding the project/Business case development
- Post-award Planning
- Control Stage 1 - Build the product, manage the project, produce status reports, update the plan
- Control Stage 2 - Continue to manage the projecControl Stage 3 – Complete the project
- Post-project reporting – Cost and schedule performance, lessons learned
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1. Project Success Factors
What factors can you instill in every project to increase success?
2. Project Lifecycle Overview
What are the primary activities you should plan for in each phase of a project?
3. Developing a Business Case or Bid
Every project begins with estimates – how can yours be more useful and accurate?
4. Requirements Management
What are the functional and technical requirements of a project? What is a triple constraint and the principles of change control?
5. Estimating Strategies
How do you use parametric, top-down and bottom-up estimating strategies?
6. Planning
How do you create a realistic, detailed action plan that shows who, what, when, and how much? |
7. Risk Management
Risk Identification, risk response development and risk control.
8. Creating a Management Plan.
9. Change Control
How do you respond to changes from the customer and the project environment?
10. Balance: Optimizing Productivity and Risk
What strategies can speed up a project and what are the trade-offs?
11. Project Control
How can you accurately track progress using earned value analysis?
12. Sub-Contractor Management
What steps are important to ensure your sub-contractors deliver as desired?
13. Continuous Improvement
How to capture and use lessons learned. |
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