Intense Project Management Seminar (fundamental)

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Tools and techniques for planning, organizing and controlling projects

 

Objectives

To reach strategic and operational targets in change, innovation, system and customer management ist substantial in today's business. Therefore, interdisciplinary projects have to be established. Typical examples are: internal projects for installing production procedures, product development, reorientation of functional areas and organizational structures, introduction of new data processing systems, investments. Likewise projects to handle customer orders and special projects for developing sales concepts and market position.

Common to these projects are fastidious goals, high pressures and often a new complexity. The people involved will do their work faster and more efficiently, if they use the organizational mode and the planning and controlling methods of modern project management. Then project work is realized according to plans, bottlenecks are managed target-oriented, co-operation starts and conflict situations will be handled in time.

The seminar offers the entire know how to organize and run projects successfully. Participants will partially practice shown methods in group work. Direct improvement steps are initiated out of the seminar. So the value of specific projects and the project management entirely can be increased in the participant's environment.

Who should participate ?

Project leaders and project team members participating in all kinds of projects, managers responsible for project management improvement.  

Seminar content

 

What is project management, how the value is to be increased

• Project management as a matrix organization form to integrate functional and project needs

• How values and benefits of project management are defined and implemented

Project analysis and project planning

• Project definition, project analysis, project planning and work package definition

• Milestones and project phases, project time lines

• Project start up process

• Application of project management software in the planning cycle

Capacity and cost planning

• Top down and bottom up budget planning 

• Calculation of work packages (capacity, cost)

• Best case/Worst case planning views

• How to prepare a realistic project plan

Efficient project leadership and project organization

• Understanding, playing and supporting the project roles: project  leader, sub project leader, project team, work package responsibility,

• Understanding, claiming and supporting roles outside the project: steering committee tasks, functional management roles

• How to manage multiple role taking

• Defining and practicing the project managers authority

Project team building

• Understand the team building secret

• How teams start up and operate during the project life cycle

• Important team building rules

Industry examples and project implementation strategies

• Examples from product development, organizational change, installing new technologies, system development, investment handling

• Use of implementation strategies like pilot projects, prototyping, simultaneous engineering, just in time project work, freezing point philosophy

Techniques and processes to reach the project goals

• The processes of project control and project steering

• Applying project control tools: work package status, progress report, team memo, sophisticated communication

• Running a foresighted control cycle: time and cost trends, work value and project prognosis calculation

• Managing project changes

Project acceleration

• Tuning methods for work packages

• Streamlining communication and co-operation in project handling

• Measures of project acceleration: by capacity concentration, by simultaneous work, by motivation

Putting project management to practice

• Improving the single project

• Workshop program for the development of specified project management goals

• Action lists

2 days on-site

 

 

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