Public Course Schedule

Public classes conducted at Quickstart Intelligence in Bellevue, Washington

• Traditional: Instructor led – 2 days ( 15 PDU's )
• Workshop: Apply course concepts to your projects in class – 3 days
• With Microsoft Project – Combine with a Microsoft Project course – 3 or 4 days ( 22.5 to 28 PDU's )
• With additional content: Add topics that are important to your audience – 2-5 days 

Principles of Project Management presents the proven techniques of project management. Our practical framework makes project management easy to understand and apply to today’s project-driven workplace.

Specific techniques such as Work Breakdown Structure and Resource Leveling will be presented, with opportunities to practice each technique. Emphasis is placed not only on how to perform the technique, but also on when and why. It’s the knowledge every project manager needs to succeed.

As project management applies to all industries, the material presented is relevant to every practitioner. To support the effective application of the techniques learned, the project life cycle is related to development life cycles (process methodologies). In addition, real world project challenges presented in class offer hands-on opportunities for participants to identify specific project management tools to help solve each problem.

While this is not a traditional leadership course, it acknowledges that project managers are in leadership roles, and accordingly emphasizes the leadership aspect of each technique. By teaching participants how the project management tool set enables them to satisfy all their stakeholders – sponsors, management, customers and the project team – this course allows the project manager to achieve success on many levels.

• Create realistic project schedules.
• Get the most from project management software using the five steps of project planning.
• Create effective project plans with clear responsibilities and milestones.
• Identify problems when they are still small enough to solve.
• Transform ambiguous projects into focused, productive projects with tangible results.

Each participant receives a copy of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand how project management can increase productivity, improve communication and cut development costs.
• Understand how to consitently achieve the Five Project Success Factors using the discipline of project management.
• Systematically apply the proven techniques of project management to define, plan and control a project.
• Create a project plan using standard project management techniques.
• Use the project plan to manage the team, customers, management and project sponsors.
• Understand the relationship between the science of project management and the art of leadership.

Anyone associated with projects benefits from understanding the tools of project management. Project managers and team leaders, managers with multiple projects, and team members with special assignments will get the greatest benefit from this practical project management training.