This 3-day course provides project managers and project team members with essential tools needed to deliver successful projects. The course covers the complete project lifecycle - from project initiation and definition, through project implementation, and finally to the often neglected project completion phase. With hundreds of in-house client deliveries and hundreds of public sessions (delivered in association with Universities and Colleges across Canada), the PM AT&T course is firmly established as one of the most popular fundamental project management courses available.

Who Should Attend

• Project Managers- both new to project management and experience project managers who have not had formal project management training
• Quality Managers
• Subject Matter Experts (e.g. Health and Safety specialists)
• Project team members
• Account managers
• Anyone wishing to be more competitive in today's job market

When delivered in-house, PM AT&T is very effective in "jump-starting" a team embarking on a medium to large-scale project.

Materials

• Course binder containing presentation slides, course reference book, case study, exercises and sample solutions
• Sample project management templates (e.g., project charters, communication plans, etc.) - provided in both hard-copy within the course binder and electronically on the reference CD
• Reference CD containing course specific and general project management reference materials
• Framed certificate of completion

Learning Objectives

• Participants of this course will be able to...
• Identify and avoid common causes of project failure
• Identify options for structuring a project team, and use learned criteria to select the best option for a given project
• Recognize common areas of a project team, and use learned criteria to select the best option for a given project
• Recognize common areas of project misunderstanding and how to avoid them. Examples: Project purpose, key deliverables, risk tolerance, stakeholder roles, etc...
• Identify key areas of project risk, assess their impact and identify options for avoiding mitigating the impact of risk
• Use work breakdown structures to identify the true scope of work. Break down a new or complex project into discrete, manageable activities complete with measurable deliverables.
• Model the flow and timing of a project during the planning stages, and test different "what-if" scenarios to both optimize and ensure that a project is "doable" before starting
• Reduce unnecessary project delays by identifying "critical path activities" and undertaking high priority tasks first
• Deal with project uncertainties in a visible and justifiable way
• Assess project resource requirements, recognize resourse assumptions, and evaluate resource conflicts and potential solutions
• Develop an accurate project scope to creep
• Improve overall project communication between stakeholders
• Create and maintain a productive project team environment
• Accurately compare the current project status to the original plan to identify potential problems and make proactive decisions
• Properly close out a project, and avoid the "project that never dies" syndrome

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.