The environment of current business requires an increased focus on practices and skills in planning projects and work, properly organizing tasks, and one’s work to improve productivity and delegating work to empowered staff. Businesses and indeed, all organizations, find themselves needing more productive methods of planning, more appropriate goals, and effective means of accomplishing work. A focus on using productive best practices allows for effective and efficient management of work and making changes in the organization. This course is designed to give participants an understanding of several management methods, processes, and procedures, as well as practice on several key management techniques. The principles used are easily adjusted to an organization’s or individual’s work assignments. The conference presents a methodology of common, standard management techniques using a simple theoretical foundation and enhances learning with practical activities so participants can develop knowledge and skill to manage more effectively and efficiently.
Today’s organization deals with ever-increasing levels of complexity and the ever-increasing speed of change. In order to achieve maximum effectiveness managers must continually sharpen their skills. In this program you will study how to: Understand and apply best practices of the business analysis discipline, conduct a business-needs analysis to elicit stakeholder requirements, utilize methods, tools, and techniques to identify issues and opportunities, develop effective requirements and communication plans, and prepare, manage and implement solution assessment and validation
This course aims at equipping the hiring (line) managers, procurement, and recruiters to maximize the return on investment in the “recruit to contract termination” process of external consultants and contractors for the hiring organizations. Organizations want to enjoy the flexibility of a contractor’s workforce instead of internal staff, but would there be conflicts when contractors and internal staff have to work together? How to ensure seamless team effort among contractors and internal staff? The trend of outsourcing and the continuous interest of shareholders to want organizations to have fewer and fewer headcounts and governments should become smaller and smaller; the importance and popularity of external consultants and contractors keep increasing. How to identify and attract the best contractors/consultants? How to accelerate the onboarding time for contractors/consultants? How to retain them? How to get the most out of them within a flexible contract period? It is quite similar to the case with internal employees, yet there is a significant difference too.
Covering the entire project life cycle, this course is based on the best practices found in the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). In this program you will learn how to: Establish and accomplish goals that are linked directly to stakeholder needs. Utilize tried and proven project management tools to get the job done on time, within budget, and in accordance with requirements. Work through a proactive approach to risk that will give you a clear understanding of both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
A project is a task that is time-limited and has defined scope and resources. In getting this job done, a project manager faces new challenges all the time. These challenges can be overcome with an organized process, a good and cooperative team, and careful planning. In this course, participants will learn the fundamentals of project management to enable them expertly manage to deliver the on-time, on-budget results, learning, and integration that organizations need.
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project planning and control approach that provides cost and schedule performance measurements. It compares the actual accomplishment of scheduled work and associated costs against an integrated schedule and budget plan. Its benefits include visibility into the actual progress of the project work against the budget, projections of anticipated project schedule and cost trends, and the ability to take timely corrective actions for undesired variances. EVM is considered one of the most potent and productive concepts utilized in managing today’s complex projects in private, commercial, or government environments.
The Project Professional MBA is an intensive program designed to sharpen your management skills and focus on current best practices in project management. Delegates will cover management principles and the project life cycle, based on the best practices found in the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). In this program you will learn how to: Establish and accomplish goals that are linked directly to stakeholder needs. Manage and motivate people more effectively. Understand and effectively utilize strategic planning techniques. Use the Baldrige performance criteria as a standard of excellence and benchmark for your organization. Create and harness the power of high-performance teams. Utilize tried and proven project management tools to get the job done on time, within budget, and in accordance with requirements. Work through a proactive approach to risk that will give you a clear understanding of both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
The effective management of processes is crucial for the production and process-based organizations. Nowadays, if contemporary organizations want to stay competitive, they are urged to think in terms of process-value added to customers/shareholders. Production planning, scheduling activities, and controlling of processes represent essential activities to be performed and monitored by organizations as they implement their key processes, activities, and operations. In addressing these issues, this conference is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing the costs of those processes for which they are accountable. By combining techniques analysis, problems, and examples with a real case study the conference provides delegates with key skills, which are essential in managing and controlling processes/projects in times of increasing global competition.
The overall aim of this course is to prepare participants for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification by discussing the exam's requirements and analyzing the format of its questions. Participants will get the opportunity to practice many similar exam questions. The course also aims at assisting participants in understanding the new structure of the PMP exam in addressing the people, process, and business environment domains