If you are an experienced project manager, Looking for something beyond the basics, what key concepts can you use to continue to move in your career. This course takes you through the very best practices.

Students will also explore the nuances of navigating the political envelope that accompanies every project. Students will be fully engaged through interactive exercises and group discussions with a coterie of their own experienced co-learners from around the world.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) areas covered: Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Risk Management, Quality Management and Communication Management.

Who should attend?
-Project managers with three or more years’ experience
-Professionals looking to move to the next level of expertise.

What will my seminar experience cover?
-Building a culture: Understand the impact of the changing business landscape on project management
-Portfolio management: Explore the process of portfolio management and the alignment of project management with strategic planning
-Stakeholder management: Create a comprehensive inventory of stakeholders, recognize the impact of your matrix organization and perform a stakeholder analysis
-Productivity management: Recognize the delimiters and activate the enablers
-Risk management: Identify and overcome barriers to risk management and create an environment that will accept and accommodate a risk management process.
-Quality management: Identify the requirements on which to work, set quality metrics for those requirements and monitor quality metrics to ensure they are met
-Measuring project management success: Define what we are measuring, describe the four measurement plateaus and apply a measurement process

How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization with:
-An understanding of project portfolio management
-Techniques to enhance project team productivity
-Risk management techniques
-Policies that help build a better culture for successful project management
-An understanding of how to navigate the political landscape of high visibility projects
-Stakeholder management skills
-Quality controls and standards
-Measurement of the project management discipline

What instructional materials will be used?
Lecture, individual and group exercises, group discussions and games.