Training

Training based on the PMI® standard PMBOK® Guide

Project management is one of the field of studies which brings the most immediate advantages if mastered, both for the project and for the company, provided it is held by experienced people and not by theoreticians.

Project Management Institute (PMI)® is the organization which sets the PMBOK® Guide standard, the most known and used standard nowadays. In a domain which continuously evolves, the best one can do is to be up to date. We teach project management according to the last issue of the PMBOK® Guide standard – Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute Inc., 2013.

The training consists in teaching the theory and good practices according to the PMBOK® Guide guide, followed by their solution in a real project.

It is held by experienced project managers, who are Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified.

Advantages

  • Specific teaching based on a real world model, and not on academic examples
  • Immediate practical applicability within your organization
  • Valid as training for the PMP® certification exam

Structure

Module I: Basic management project concepts (5 days)

Introductory concepts to project management

  • Existing international standards on the market
  • Project management terminology valid worldwide
  • Project – Portfolio Program Management
  • Knowledge areas and process groups
  • Project lifecycle

Project initialization

  • Project Charter
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Stakeholders analysis
  • Creating the communication plan

Planning a project

  • WBS development
  • Estimation techniques
  • Duration and cost estimation
  • Creating the work graph
  • Critical path analysis Identifying the events which may influence the project objectives
  • Resource allocation
  • Planning optimization techniques
  • Contract types
  • Purchasing plans

Monitoring and control

  • Project progress analysis
  • Cost analysis
  • Resource consumption analysis
  • Project re-planning techniques Recovering delays and fitting into the budget once again
  • Report models

Closing the project

  • Formalizing the closing process of the project
  • Lessons learnt and information dissemination

Module II: Advanced management project concepts (3 days)

Risk management at the level of projects

  • Theoretical concepts related to risk management
  • Planning based on time margins
  • Using alternative distributions
  • Quantitative analysis of the risk
  • Interpreting the results of the risk analysis
  • Probabilistic events
  • Alternative graphs (with different probabilities)
  • Interpreting the results
  • Risk mitigation – cost-benefit analysis
  • Cost management, probabilistic cash flow

Advanced cost management techniques

  • Reasonable value analysis
  • Cost estimation techniques upon completion
  • Performance indicators
  • Cash Flow

Project management facilitation tools

  • Primavera Enterprise
  • Microsoft Project
  • Primavera Risk Analysis
  • RiskALERT

PMI, PMP and PMBOK are registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.