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This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to manage and control projects. It deals with all the processes necessary to plan, manage, execute, and control projects. Participants will learn how to develop a project management plan following PMI’s project management process in alignment with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The course also details the steps necessary to define project baselines (scope, schedule and cost) and then illustrates many practical examples of controlling activities with emphasize on schedules and costs. Participants will learn to apply best practices to control project schedules and budgets to ensure project objectives are realized and benefits/value delivered to the sponsor organization.
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14 PDUs included in this course!
LINE with Project VictorWhat Participants Will Learn
- How do project managers develop a project plan following PMI’s approach to scheduling and cost
- How to define a scope statement and the deliverables of the project.
- How to create a WBS/Product backlog that serves as the foundation of the project schedule
- How to develop the activity list, use precedence diagram methods to create a time-scaled project schedule network diagram.
- How to estimate activity durations and activities resources
- How to develop the project schedule (Product Roadmap) and define the necessary project schedule baseline.
- How to estimate costs using various estimation methods (with a kind introduction to estimation in Agile environments).
- How to develop the final budget and set the cost baseline (with a kind introduction to reserve analysis and risk contingency planning).
- How to measure project progress with a comprehensive discussion of Earned Value Management (an Introduction to Earned Schedules and Iteration Burndown Charts in Agile).
- How to take correct and preventive actions to bring the project back to schedule and to control costs.
Managing and Controlling Projects helps project managers:
- Understand the fundamentals of what makes a well-defined project management plan.
- Understand the basics and apply the tools necessary to develop project schedules.
- Understand the basics and apply the tools necessary to develop project budgets.
- Apply Earned Value Management techniques to measure project progress.
- Apply the control tools necessary to analyze project schedule and cost variances.
- Apply resource optimization techniques (crashing and fast-tracking) to accelerate project delivery.
- Apply Leads and Lag to project schedule network diagrams to stay aligned with project schedules.
- Practically experience how such tools are applied using Microsoft Project.
Delivery Method
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course Duration
Two Days (equivalent to 14 Contact Hours or Professional Development Units – PDUs)
Target Audience
- Project Managers
- Assistant project managers and project coordinators
- Project schedulers.
- Project planners
- Project finance lead and cost controllers
What You Get in Class
- 14 PMI® Contact Hours: Each Contact Hour is 1 PDU
- Managing and Controlling Projects Course Material
- Project Victor Course completion certification
- Pens, Pencils, Markers, Eraser
- Drinks, Refreshments and Snacks
Instructor
- President of PMI Thailand Chapter (profile on PMI Thai website)
- He is a PMI licensed training instructor – profile on PMI global website.
- He is a Certified Program Management Professional (PgMP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate # 2079271.
- He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP/CAPM®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #1258917
- He is an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #2600926
- He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) (Scrum Alliance – www.scrumalliance.org); Certificant ID: 001062861
- He is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)® 5.0; Certificate ID: 50804412-3031
- He is a SAFe Agilist® 5.0 (www.scaledagile.com); Certificate ID: 23353981-8934
- He is Certified Risk Management Professional (RMP®) (Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org); Certificate #2033120
- He has experience managing and leading mega-projects (Information Technology, Airport-related, CCTV-related, Transport-related, and Power Infrastructure) in various industries.
- He is a commercial contract manager, reviewer, and advisor.
- He teaches part-time at King Mongkut University of Technology (Thonburi) – Graduate School of Management and Innovation (Master Degree in Project Management). He is an invited lecturer to Chulalongkorn University.
- He holds a Doctorate degree obtained from Assumption University of Thailand with an international record of publications in refereed journals with a special concentration on business management.
- He has trained more than 5000 program/project managers, project engineers, project coordinators, and project team members since 2010.
- He has helped certify more than 500Project Management Professionals (PMP/CAPM) in Thailand.
- He is also a highly experienced speaker and trainer who is also passionate about Project Management.
- Passionate about the Agile methodologies and their applications in different business environments
Course Outline
- Introduction to Project Management and Project Controls
- How to collect requirements
- How to define scope and the scope statement
- How to create the WBS (Product Backlog) and define the scope baseline.
- How to define activities and develop the activity list and activity attributes
- How to sequence activities using the precedence diagramming method (discussion of prioritization in Agile environments)
- How to estimate activity resources and a discussion of the resource breakdown structure
- How to develop the project schedule and define the project schedule baseline (discussion of product roadmaps in Agile environments).
- How to estimate the costs using various cost estimation techniques
- How to use cost aggregation and define the cost baseline
- How to measure project progress
- How to track project schedules using Gantt Charts (with application examples using Microsoft Project)
- How to conduct what-if analysis
- How to measure schedule variance and conduct variance analysis
- How to track project actual costs and measure cost variances and conduct cost variance analysis
- How to use Earned Value Management (with applications in Microsoft Project) to control project progress
- Discussions of tools such as trends analysis, earned value analysis, and project forecasting methods
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